40 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



Fortune favoured me, as two of the horses 

 I thought most dangerous, Damon and 

 Borderer, fell, the former at the last brook ; 

 whilst Lord Henry Bentinck with one or 

 two others made a bad turn, and practically 

 lost a field at the half-way flag. This 

 was an awkward moment for all of us, as 

 it was impossible to see the home flag from 

 the field in which we were, which was 

 walled round with an enormous high black 

 bullfinch, so dense that though several of 

 us had it, Sir Savile Crossley's horse came 

 down with a heavy fall into the next 

 field, and Nora Creina literally hung in 

 the top before she dropped out on to the 

 grass ten feet below. Among the con- 

 gratulations I received on my victory were 

 those telegraphed to me by my political 



