88 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



The same horse, once, being stripped for a gallop, 

 tried to savage Mr. Heard. I afterwards won a 

 £1,000 race with Sweet Sounds at Derby. 



I have never been very emphatic about which 



was the better of the two horses, Galtee More 



„ ,, „ and Ard Patrick. Galtee More had 



Galtee More 

 and Ard a thickening of the tendon under the 

 Patrick— , . ,. 



Which was knees, and this at dmerent times caused 

 t e better ? ^^ ^^ j-^^jg anxiety, and in the end was 



the cause of my not training him as a four-year-old 

 for the Gold Cup at Ascot. It is doubtful which 

 was the better, but the benefit of the doubt would 

 probably be given to Ard Patrick, as I could not 

 very well train Galtee More as a four-year-old. 

 Could I have done so the question of merits might 

 have been decided. Galtee More was tried 

 before the Two Thousand, one mile, ridden by 

 Charles Wood, to receive a stone from Kilcock, 

 who was then handicapped 9 st. in the Jubilee. 

 The way Galtee More won he would have just 

 about beaten Kilcock at even weights. I did not 

 try him for the Derby. 



I have a good deal more to say about Ard Pat- 

 rick however in another chapter, for long before 

 his four-year-old wins Count Lehndorfi; had been 

 wanting to buy him, but Mr. Gubbins and Mr. 

 Allison and I had been in Egypt during the pre- 

 liminary negotiations. 



