18 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



posts. The owner of the second came to me and 

 asked what had happened. I said : 



" Your horse went the wrong side of the hurdle." 



" Then why did you go on ? " he replied. 



" Because I saw a chance of beating him, and 

 thought this would save the bother of an objec- 

 tion." 



" I can't believe it. We did not see it from the 

 stand." 



" Well, go down and see the track for yourself," 

 I said. He did, and was satisfied. 



From Emblem Villa I moved to Sandford House, 



Severn Stoke, as tenant of Lord Coventry. I was 



training for myself at first. Soon after- 

 Tenant of ir> J 



Lord wards I had several clients. The gallop 

 there was where Captain Coventry after- 

 wards trained Inquisitor and others. My uncle 

 trained for the present Lord Coventry, before 

 Weever. 



Mr. Everett, of Finstall Park, a client of mine, 

 was breeding from Cardinal York, etc., in those 

 days. I bought from him a yearling called 

 Gazette, for Mr. Hogarth,^ and it is worth relating, 

 as I've never heard anything like it before or since, 

 that the colt, after being loaded, and with nothing 



^ Re Mr. Hogarth in the 'eighties. In those days I first met Mr. 

 Gill, now K.C., who used to drive with Mr. Hogarth in his carriage 

 to Kempton regularly, to see the latter's horses run, and, I may 

 sa}', often win. 



