EARLY DAYS 3 



attracted the notice of my grandfather, who was 

 riding in the race. He only won one race however 

 that year, and one the year following ; but in the 

 three years after that Isaac came to his own, for 

 he won thirty-eight races out of fifty-three starts. 

 He carried right on up to 1846, when he was fifteen 

 years old. Then he broke down in a hurdle race, 

 and lived happily for six years afterwards. During 

 his twelve years on the Turf, Isaac won an immense 

 number of all sorts of races. He scored no less than 

 twenty victories at Worcester and Warwick. A 

 contemporary writer declared that at such places 

 as Oxford, Worcester, and Warwick, "Darling 

 was King, and his throne old Isaac's back." 



My grandfather rode winners of the Chester 



Cup four times ; he also rode seventy-six winners in 



. one year out of 176 mounts, and that 



the St. Leger before there were many railways. To 



and four most of the meetings he would ride a 



Shjewsbur ^^c^' ^^^^ ^ ^ig^^ Saddle slung round 

 next day, his back. My grandfather rode 



in 1833 ^ . , ^ ^ 



Rockingham to wm the St. Leger m 

 1833, and after the race he was asked by his 

 confreres to stay and have a jollification that 

 evening at Doncaster. He refused to do this, 

 and borrowed Sim Templeman (a brother jockey's 

 hack), and rode away to Sheffield, where his own 

 hack was awaiting him. By the aid of his hack. 



