SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



match, forXSO a side. But I wanted 7 lb., while he 

 thought 3 lb. would be sufficient to make the affair jt 

 close thing. In the end I gave way, and the pair 

 ran over the last four furlongs of the Rowley Mila, 

 when Fordham on Nutgirl beat Parry on Duplicity by 

 three-quarters of a length. I had no bet on the race ; 

 nor did the Admiral. But he was as pleased at the 

 victory as though he had won a thousand pounds. 



" You see," said he, " you'd have beaten me had I 

 given you 7 lb." 



Mention otherwhere occurs of the matching of my 

 Shillelagh with "Mr. Hall's" Fravola, on the final 

 day of the Epsom Summer Meeting of 1862. " Mr„ 

 Hall's" right name was Perry, and as there were 

 several Perrys about, he was, to his familiars, by 

 reason that he wore glasses, known as " Spectacle 

 Perry." Mr. Perry was on the Stock Exchanga, 

 but his heart was in sport, though he was pretty 

 'cute at the business of his life, and no one whom he 

 knew, deserving of a turn, looked to him in vaiit. 

 One of his ambitions, on his sporting side, was t® 

 beat me in a match, and he must be given whatever 

 credit attaches to perseverance. We were talking^ 

 on a day, and I remarked to him, " Perry, you have 

 a little horse, Otho." 



" Yes. But I've sent him up to auction, at a fifty 



reserve." 



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