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" I was very unlucky," writes Mr. Wilson, "not 

 to win on Congress, as in pulling out for Jack 

 Goodwin. I came into contact with a fallen animal 

 which certainly lost me many lengths. My horse 

 came on his nose and knees, and I was hanoino- 

 round his neck all across the next field, and had not 

 recovered my irons when we jumped the next fence. 



" This left me in a bad position and took a lot of 

 making up. You may remember we finished very 

 wide — Joe Cannon right under the judge's box and 

 yours truly bang the other side of the course. 



■'As for Congress he v/as certainly one of the 

 best I ever rode." 



A characteristic, we might almost say historic, 

 group was that when Zero, looking very business- 

 like with his square cut tail and hogged mane, made 

 his appearance on the course, with Mr. " Roily" on 

 his back, his owner, familiarly known to a multitude 

 of friends as " Pussy," on one side, and Tom 

 Chaloner the jockey on the other. 



Who could have foretold that the wearer of the 

 amber jacket was destined in later years to blossom 

 out into a full-blown Viceroy of India ?* 



* The Earl of Minto, the present Viceroy of India, when a boy at 

 Eton was popularly known as " Roily" Melgund. Hence the adoption 

 of Mr. " Roily," for riding purposes, later on. 



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