64 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



bad luck, as I had contemplated bringing off a 

 good double event, and Tommy Loates, who rode 

 him in the Cesare witch, admitted that had he not 

 pulled round coming down the Bushes Hill he 

 would certainly have won. 



The next good horse was Ard Patrick. He, 

 like the rest of Morganette's progeny, was very 

 slow in coming to hand, and was a very backward 

 colt. I could not get him ready for the Two Thou- 

 sand, as he would not come to hand in the spring. 

 MoRGANETTE was dam of Ard Patrick, Galtee 

 More, and Blairfinde, three Derby winners. 



Before writing more, however, about Ard 

 Patrick, I must explain that at the end of his 

 two-year-old season I was pretty badly 

 South run down by my work, and was advised 

 to take a sea voyage to South Africa. 

 This was in the winter of 1901. So, leaving the 

 stable in charge of my pdus Achates, Mr. Heard, I 

 embarked on the Union Castle s.s. GaiJca, at 

 Southampton, during Christmas week, together 

 with Mr. Allison (" The Special Commissioner" of 

 the Sportsman), his wife and daughter, and a very 

 cheery, though limited number of other fellow 

 passengers. This was my first experience of foreign 

 travel, and the Boer war was still on. Mr. John 

 Corlett, on hearing of my expedition, jokingly said, 

 " Sam Darling has gone out to settle it." 



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