222 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



" What will win the Derby ? 

 ** St. Davids, 

 " Sam Darling." 



By some peculiar process of telepathy, Mr. 

 Allison, as we subsequently learned, had con- 

 ceived a similar idea at the same time, he being 

 aware that I was on board the Aragon, and he 

 went up to the Marconi-house on the top deck 

 of the Asturias to send me a message at the very 

 moment when ours to him was being ticked off. 



His message, therefore, took the form of a reply, 

 which ran thus : 



** Tressady or Lemberg ? " 



I suppose Tressady was put in out of compli- 

 ment to me, as I trained him. Lemberg, as we 

 all know now, won the Derby. 



In the spring of 1912 I took my two daughters 

 to Ceylon, which we enjoyed very much. The 

 Visiting passengers expressed a wish for me to 

 Ceylon become president of the sports on 

 board. On the whole these went off well. My 

 eldest daughter won many of the prizes. I only 

 competed for one, viz. the ladies' hat-trimming 

 competition, which Lord Crichton Stuart won 

 for my daughter's hat, and I was second for 



