SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



early in the year I sold to Lord Westmorland for 

 200 sovs. At Brighton, in the Cup, Speculum gave 

 Paul Jones 7 lb. and a handsome beating — form 

 that I knew to be wrong, and puzzled indeed was 

 I to make out what had come over my colt. He 

 had in no way lost his action ; he was not in the 

 leastwise ungenerous ; and the fault, I concluded, 

 must be in the training. 



" Balchin," I said, " I am going to have Paul 

 Jones trained for the St. Leger — trained, mind you. 

 He can't be as bad as the Cup running makes him 

 out. I shall be down every day to see him do his 

 work, and then I shall be satisfied." Nor did I 

 whenever possible, fail to act up to my word, suffer- 

 ing any inconvenience, travelling any distance, in 

 order to keep an eye on my colt. 



In the Yorkshire Oaks a fortnight later a Birdhill 

 filly, named Maesllwch — that I had purchased from 

 the Duke of Beaufort — ran a good third to the Duke 

 of Hamilton's Leonie and Mr. Watt's Mysotis, and 

 later in the afternoon won the Chesterfield Handicap, 

 distance a mile. I determined I would try Paul 

 Jones with her, and the pair were stripped on 

 Friday, August 28 (1868). To Maesllwch I set 

 Paul Jones to concede 2 st. 7 lb., a task he cleverly 

 accomplished. By taking a line through Leonie — 

 who was uncommonly smart — I made out that I had 



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