CHAPTER XVII 



The Cardinal and the ' ' Grinds ' ' How we trained him His good 

 Race for the Merton " Grind '-' Attempt made to buy him 

 C. S. Newton corroborates The Christ Church " Grind "- 

 Victory all but assured Fall and Death of the Cardinal 

 Moments of Depression I come of Age Celebration of the 

 Event Mods. Examination and the Latin Verse Paper 

 Prince Charlie intervenes More Depression Dinners at 

 the Inner Temple The old Bedford Hotel Evans's 



NONE of my old letters refers to the momentous 

 period when we set about training the Cardinal, 

 but I wrote some of my recollections last year in 

 The Sportsman, when referring to the death of the late 

 Mr W. H. P. Jenkins, and may as well quote from the 

 article : 



MR "P. MERTON " : OXFORD MEMORIES 



I had intended to write something about the late Mr W. H. P. 

 Jenkins, though he was a few years before my time ; but 

 Mr Henry Rouse, in Tuesday's issue, has done it from fuller know- 

 ledge than I could boast of. His letter is one of the greatest 

 possible interest, and should be kept for future reference by all 

 who are really interested in the history of 'Chasing. In early 

 days anyone a few years older than yourself seems to belong to 

 another generation, but Mr Jenkins, though not quite a con- 

 temporary of mine, did certainly play a considerable part in 

 the Merton " Grind " of 1871 or 1872, and also, I think, in the 

 Christ Church one the same year. I am often charged with having 

 a good memory, but here I am at fault, and I think Mr C. S. Newton, 

 or Mr Lindsay Smith, or Lord Harris could supply deficiencies. 

 The " Grinds "- used in the days I mention to be run on the old 

 course beyond the Bablock Hythe Ferry, and we I say " we u 

 because Lindsay Smith's horse was one I had brought him from 

 Yorkshire, named Angram, but renamed the Cardinal, and we 

 were together in training him from the Randolph Hotel stables, 

 galloping sometimes at Bullingdon and sometimes on Port Meadow, 

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