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After the race I said to Flatman, " Well, what 

 do you think of Crozier now ? " "I think him 

 the hardest horse to ride that I ever sat on. In 

 fact, he requires two men to get him out, and 

 make him show his true form. Henceforward I 

 will ride more strictly than ever to your orders, as 

 I am now quite conscious that I lost the race on 

 Tuesday." I have often heard him say that there 

 was no stable for which he rode with greater 

 pleasure and confidence than the Goodwood stable, 

 as he always found our horses to be just what they 

 were represented to him before the race. One 

 further trait I must mention, which was, in my 

 opinion, greatly to his credit. No jockey ever 

 rode in more trials than Flatman did, but not a 

 word as to the results ever escaped his lips. He 

 would stop, for instance, at Bretby, on his way 

 back from Malton, where he had been riding trials 

 for Colonel Anson and John Scott. Although 

 Colonel Anson and Lord Chesterfield were brothers- 

 in-law, Nat would never consent to say one syl- 

 lable to Lord Chesterfield, of whom he was very 

 fond, and for whom he had ridden for years, as to 

 the trials in which he had taken part. It is 

 greatly to be regretted that the fidelity, silence, 

 obedience to orders, and general integrity of Flat- 

 man are not more closely copied by his modern 

 successors, some of whom amass in ten years ten 

 times as large a fortune as by steady industry 

 and conscientious honesty he acquired in thirty. 



