SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



length and a half to Cherie. Provider, three lengths 

 away, was third, and him John Davis should have 

 beaten by a hundred yards. My commission, 

 executed by Steel, was a heavy one — over a thou- 

 sand at a fine rate of odds. I had no patience 

 even to speak to Mordan, especially as through 

 being tangled up with the runners he had got 

 the horse struck into, two hours being occupied 

 in walking him from the course to the town. 

 I determined to put him up for sale, and he- 

 realised the magnificent price of 19 guineas. Thfe 

 Rugby vet. Avho bought him was afterwards offered 

 thousands. The horse got no end of stayers, 

 among them Don Juan, who brought off a big 

 thing in the Cesarewitch for Mr. George Lambert 

 in 1883. 



But to return to the Duke of Hamilton. In 1878 

 his Grace won the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood 

 with Midlothian. The public had fixed on Lollypop 

 as the better of the Duke's pair, and so he was. 

 But a gallop revealed that either at the weights 

 could win, and as nice odds could be obtained about 

 the little horse, Midlothian, while Lollypop was 

 nearly favourite, the Duke determined to give the 

 first-named the preference. I shared the general 

 view, which ran for Lollypop, and I put a fair 

 amount of money on the son of Souvenir. I chanced 



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