12 iRiDino IRecoUections an^ Zwvt Stories 



* Rocket,' who was trying to beat him at even 

 weights over this very severe course. Matters thus 

 went on until the day before the Cesarewitch, but 

 ' Rocket ' had been knocked out in the betting to 

 T,T, to I, and nearly everybody thought he had no 

 chance. On the first day of the Newmarket Second 

 October Meeting, I won the Handicap Plate of 

 50 so vs., run over the Cesarewitch course, on 

 ' Oueenstown ' with 6 st. 13 lb., giving a horse 

 named 'Harry' 17 lb. and beating him a head. 

 Mr. Lambert and his friends then began to think that 

 William Goater and myself were right about the 

 trial being too severe. Next day ' Rocket ' started 

 at 14 to I, beating ' The Brewer ' and ' Prioress,' who 

 ran a dead heat for second place, by a head. 

 Curiously enough, it had been a dead heat between 

 three — ' Prioress,' 'El Hakim,' and 'Queen Bess' — 

 the previous year, 1857, when the American mare 

 ' Prioress' won on running it off It is perhaps not 

 generally known that ' Rocket ' was jointly owned 

 by Messrs. Lambert, Hodgman, and Edward Green ; 

 this last at one time was a celebrated billiard- 

 player. The former owned half, and the others a 

 quarter each. Such a thing would not be allowed 

 in these days without registration. 



At the end of the year 1859 I left Mr. Smith to 



