DISASTERS. 45 



guinea sweepstake at Goodwood, I had 

 purchased at TattersalTs, all having been 

 the property of a deceased trainer and 

 owner. 



These all, as if by a fatality, fell one 

 after the other in this same autumn. The 

 grey, for which I had been offered 200Z., 

 staked himself in trying to jump the 

 palings of a lonely homestalL One mare 

 broke her leg in leaping into the road at 

 the sound of a postman's horn ; the other, 

 who would never take to her foal, kicked 

 over the stall-post in the stable and was 

 killed ; and the colt that I had broke and 

 sent into training at Winchester, prepara- 

 tory to his engagement at Goodwood, for 

 which he would have walked over, died 

 of inflammation. 



My partner in this last affair was a 

 gentleman of considerable notoriety, who, 

 after having gone through the Peninsular 

 war as Commissary to the forces com- 



