SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Butler rode as well that afternoon as on the pre- 

 vious afternoon he had ill, and Dalby was beaten by 

 a couple of lengths, this circumstance supplying clear 

 proof that Paul Jones should have been in the thick 

 of the Cup fight. That autumn — 1869 — I planned 

 three coups : Paul Jones for the Great Yorkshire 

 Handicap ; John Davis for the Cesarewitch Stakes ; 

 and Vestminster for the Cambridgeshire. The 

 easiest of realisation I took to be the first and the 

 hardest the third. But curiously — so strangely 

 Fortune shuffled her cards — the most difficult was the 

 only successful effort. Still, Paul Jones was for the 

 " Great Yorkshire " a " moral," accidents excepted. 

 Unfortunately, the interfering agent of accident was 

 present. A quarter of a mile from home, when full 

 of running, Paul Jones was cannoned on to the rails, 

 and Butler's feet came out of the stirrup irons. He 

 made a marvellous recovery, but the race was then 

 lost, poor third honours being my horse's share. 

 Afterwards Paul Jones did nothing, and was sold 

 with the rest of my racing stud. 



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