46 IRiMno IRecollections au^ Xluit Stories 



him again at the Houghton Meeting, I won the 

 Criterion Stakes. 



Although I was asked to pilot him in all his three- 

 year-old engagements, an accident prevented me 

 beino- on his back in the Two Thousand Guineas. 

 I had a bad fall the week before at the Epsom 

 Spring Meeting, and broke my collar-bone, besides 

 suffering other injuries. I was riding ahorse Joseph 

 Dawson trained, named ' Lytham,' in a three-quarters 

 of a mile race. He had carried me successfully 

 several times before, and I knew his peculiarities. 

 When I got into the Paddock I saw he had blinkers 

 on (it was not necessary to weigh in with them then), 

 and immediately I said to Mr. Dawson : 



" What have you put him those on for ?" 



His answer was: " So that you can give him a 

 good hiding without him seeing you. ' Lytham ' ran 

 all over the course at York with Jack Loates last 

 week." This Loates, who is dead, was the eldest 

 of the family of celebrated jockeys. 



I said I would not ride a horse in blinkers, having 

 had a bad fall at Chatham through them some time 

 before. 



However, ' Lytham ' was a queer-tempered horse, 

 and he would not let the lad take them off, so I was 

 obliged to ride him as he was. There was a large 



