given the other way. Artifice must be met by artifice, and starting the weedy chestnut 

 who walked in with the crowd just prevented a deep-laid scheme of plun — ■, we bog pardon, 

 a well-planned coup from coming off. The deepest plans are sometimes overturned by the 

 merest trifles ; and here the phanee of an honest o-\vnpr possessing a good horse, and 

 finding an honest jockey to ride liiiii, has, at the last moment, overset those that have 

 been maturing for months. 



So far, good ; a cliqiie have been disappohited of their pre}^ ; the bookmakers, who 

 live on the public, have to disgorge some of their spoil ; and the public, who iuA^ariably 

 follow — sometimes, we are sorry to say, precede — tliose owners who run straight, are 

 winners. And no one is prouder than the tiny urchin who, when his charge has been 

 sheeted and hooded, leads him awa}'. Such a scene is not, however, in^-ariably 

 enacted when the winner is led back ; and within the present decade a\o have 

 seen a phalanx' of fighting men hired to surround horse and rider as they 

 returned to scale, and protect them from the fiu'y of an ill-advised, though justly 

 indignant mob. The prudent forethought which suggested such a course, highly as it 

 is to be conunended, seems hardly compatible with conduct free from stain and a con- 

 science void of off'ence. Eut it is a loathsome theme, and we merelj^ turn to it as the 

 contrast to the picture wo have sketched. Let us now forsake it, and turning to the 

 breezy hills and wooded slopes of Goodwood, record how Lord George Bentinck carried 

 the feather Kitchener, bodily, saddle and all, to scale after he had borne the light-blue 

 and white to victory ; or, still more pleasing, recall the stately figure of Sir Tatton as 

 year after year he led the St. Leger victor back to scale. For years were his long coat and 

 well-worn tops to be seen beside the rails, and as regularly did he conduct the winner 

 to the enclosiu'e. Even Martin Starling himself is not more faithful to the l^lpsom 

 victor ; though, by the way, we once saw the latter veteran make a wrong shot, and 

 when Judge Clark went for Hermit he stood staunch to Marksman and Jemmy Grimshaw, 

 and in our hearing lost several bets for those who from this circumstance retained 

 the hope that the yellow and black had won. Kuowing Martin's custom, they doubted 

 their own eyesight, and, thinking as they wished, still betted on the Eusslej' chestnut. 

 Many an anxious moment is at times passed when the scale is reached, and only those 

 who have experienced it know the consternation produced in the hearts of backers when 

 the bridle has to be sent for. Pale and haggard are the looks of many a one until the 

 welcome "All right" is pronounced, and the trying ordeal OA'cr. Various methods 

 have at times been resorted to for the purpose of carrjang short weight, and yet 

 passing the clerk of the scales undetected, and no doubt they have in many instances 

 been successful. Thus it was not many years ago that a Derby winner was said to have 

 had something in hand, and yet, by the aid of a loaded whip, scored the eight-ten to Mr. 

 Manning's satisfaction ; but as a rule, we oi)ine dodges of this sort are not very 

 successful, and incline to Bill Scott's creed, when he said, " Give me a good horse, and 

 quicksilver be hanged ! '' 



