8 IRibino IRecoUections ant> Uwvt Stones 



Meeting, I was riding a mare called ' Fiction,' belong- 

 ing to Mr. Lumley, who kept the King's Head at 

 Epsom. Before we went to Yarmouth Mr. Lumley 

 asked me if I would let her go down with our horses, 

 and engaged me to ride her in the race. It was 

 in one-mile heats, and I won the first, ' Abel Jack,' 

 belonging to Jack Abel, being second. Just as we 

 were at the post for the second heat, a messenger 

 came down to me, saying I was not to go for this 

 heat. I asked the man who sent him, and he said, 

 " Mr. Smith." Smarting under the lecture I had 

 received from him for letting ' Tame Deer ' run me 

 out, I told the messenger to go back and tell Mr. 

 Smith I was riding for Mr. Lumley, and not for him. 

 Before the man had time to oret back to the stand 

 the horses had started, and I won on ' Fiction,' 

 whereupon there was an aw^ful row. Jack Abel had 

 backed his colt on the strength of what Ned Smith 

 had told him, and, consequently, thought that the 

 latter had doubled him ; instead of which poor old 

 Ned had lost his money as well, counting upon my 

 stopping the mare for that heat. Jack Abel, however, 

 never forgave him, and they had a fight at New- 

 market afterwards over the affair ; Jack called 

 Ned a " willan and a rogue," which the latter 

 resented, and they had a "set to " in Jarvis's booth, 



