270 "MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!" 



and raised hopes that the Beadsman male line, which 

 had flourished so abundantly with the Palmer, Rosi- 

 crucian, Blue Gown, Green Sleeves and Pero Gomez 

 more than ten years earlier, had now come to stay, but 

 all was not well with Peregrine, and the American-bred 

 Iroquois beat him for the Derby. 



Jacob Pincus, the trainer of Iroquois, was very crude 

 in his methods at that time. He would even give the colt 

 a strong gallop after a race if the running had not been 

 to his mind; but as Iroquois had a great constitution, 

 no harm was done, and the Prince of Wales' Stakes at 

 Ascot and the St Leger both followed on the Derby 

 victory. Pincus became very popular at Newmarket, 

 and ultimately took to living there and training a horse 

 or two of his own, nor was there ever a more genuine 

 manifestation of public approval than when he ran his 

 whole stable one afternoon at headquarters and won a 

 race with each of them. 



Iroquois was a lithe, hardy, clean-limbed horse, and 

 he must have had an iron constitution to stand knocking 

 about as he did. He did little or no good, however, at 

 the stud when he returned to America. 



It may have been judged that my existence in 1881 

 was a somewhat hand-to-mouth one, for we had now two 

 children, and life's little worries had thus accumulated. 

 It had been a nasty jar to drop from a pinnacle of what I 

 thought such easy possibilities of success to the curious 

 mix-up of work in which I was now intermittently engaged, 

 but I had not lost faith in myself all the same, and was 

 inclined to adopt the " A time will come ! " attitude. 

 It happened, however, that the worthy egg merchant 

 took upon himself to dispose of The Whitehall Review, 

 and whoever was the new proprietor did not make terms 

 with the editor, so Legge retired, and I was left for a 

 week or two to imagine that the post had devolved on 

 me. I did, in fact, edit the paper during what was 

 simply an interregnum, and then my tenure of office 

 also came to an end. A new staff came in, and all I 



