216 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



Broomielaw, beat Apology by a head for the great York- 

 shire Stakes. In those times this race used to have a 

 material bearing on the St Leger. Then, too, we saw 

 Lily Agnes, three years, beat Kaiser, four years, for the 

 York Cup. It was a great meeting. 



Naturally we went to Doncaster and saw Apology win 

 the St Leger, after George Frederick had been scratched, 

 and she herself had been very nearly so, on account of 

 lameness. Lame or not, she reversed the York running 

 with Trent very decisively as he was third six and a 

 half lengths behind her. Glenalmond once more dis- 

 appointed, though he was backed at n to 2. Apology 

 was a chestnut mare with plenty of power and substance. 

 She ought to have become a successful matron, but for 

 some reason she did not, whereas Lily Agnes, who won 

 the Queen's Plate on that St Leger afternoon, beating 

 Lilian by three lengths, became, in process of time, the 

 dam of Ormonde and Ornament. 



I do not wish to dilate here on this or any other ancient 

 racing season, but I may just mention that at the finish 

 of the Houghton Meeting of 1874, Prince Charlie gave 

 the Cambridgeshire winner Peut-ltre 12 Ib. over the Rowley 

 mile in a match for 500 sovereigns, and with odds of 

 2 to i on him, won in a canter, thus winding up his 

 glorious career on the turf. It was on the Tuesday that 

 Peut-etre had won the Cambridgeshire by two lengths, 

 starting second favourite and beating forty-one others. 

 The great match was not until the Saturday, so the 

 French colt had had ample time between the races. Such 

 a scene as followed on Prince Charlie's last triumph has 

 seldom been witnessed on Newmarket Heath. 



The next stage, so far as I was concerned, was to take 

 up my quarters in town in 1875 and set about work for 

 a year in a Special Pleader's chambers. I found good 

 rooms on the ground floor of 24 St James's Place, and 

 Arthur Blackwood, whose father was one of the Dalgety 

 and Du Croz firm, had the first floor. A Mrs Jewell was 

 our landlady and, I think, her husband was employed at 



