SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



had more reason for confidence. I was so piqued at 

 the disgraceful running of the colt that I promptly 

 struck him out of the Cambridgeshire, and had the 

 mortification of witnessing the success of See Saw, 

 whom I had beaten "all ends up" in the St. Leger. 

 It is as well at times not to act on impulse. In the 

 Chester Cup of the following year (1869) Paul Jones 

 was handicapped at 7 st. 9 lb. , and I thought he held 

 a respectable chance of " repeating history." The 

 ^gean was favourite, ridden by Wilson, while 

 Butler was on my horse. The pair went " hammer 

 and tongs " for each other, clapping on the pace to 

 such an extravagant extent that at a period they 

 were fully twenty lengths ahead of the rest, each 

 jockey riding as though the five furlong were the 

 finishing post. The ordeal was more than horseflesh 

 could endure, and gradually The ^gean and Paul 

 Jones dropped back, pumped out ; so that Fordham, 

 on Knight of the Garter, at the Grosvenor Bridge, 

 had the race nicely in hand. Dalby, who finished 

 third, conceding Paul Jones 2 lb., met him next day 

 in Her Majesty's Plate. I gave Butler a severe and 

 deserved rating for his ridiculous riding. In truth, 

 I had a good mind, as Fordham was disengaged, to 

 make Butler stand down, and told him so. 



" If," I warned him, " you do to-day what you did 

 yesterday, I will never put you up again." 



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