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would not be his game, so I persuaded Mr. Fenwick 

 to put him in the Metropolitan, which he won, 

 starting at ten to one. 



The Duke of St. Albans and Mr. Fenwick together 

 owned a horse called Woodland. I took him and 

 five others, together with two of my children 

 (the present Mrs. Marsh and young Sam), to Ayr, 

 so I had a pretty good handful to manage. Wood- 

 land got second to Fullerton for the £1,000 

 Handicap. Finding Fullerton entered at wrong 

 age, I objected, and got the stakes. With the six 

 horses I took to Ayr I won with all but one. The 

 best thing of the lot was Happy Thought, Mr. 

 Abingdon Baird up ; and she was making the run- 

 ning round the top turn when she fell over some 

 Scotsmen who were playing cards on the course. 

 There was a row afterwards, but nothing came of it. 



I trained Coronet for Mr. Gardiner Muir, who 

 won most of the three-mile steeplechases he went 

 Coronet, and f 01, including the big race at Croydon, 



his death ^j^^ Mammoth at Sandown, and races 

 at Ludlow. He was perhaps one of the finest and 

 biggest of fencers who ever looked through a bridle. 

 I measured one of his jumps — thirty- six feet. A 

 more sad end one could not imagine than poor 

 Coronet's on the frosty ground at Sandown. Being 

 steadied while racing at the pay- gate fence by WilHe 

 Moore, the horse reached for his head, got disap- 



