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field, and we had gone about a quarter of a mile, so 

 were just at the steepest part of Tattenham Corner, 

 when I called out to G. Elphick (the present 

 veterinary surgeon at Newcastle-on-Tyne, who was 

 then a lad about 5 st. 7 lb.) to " keep straight." He 

 thought I wanted to come up on the inside, and 

 good-naturedly pulled his mare out — unfortunately, 

 right across my track. I caught hold of ' Lytham ' 

 to pull him back, and he thought I was going to hit 

 him, as Loates had done before, so he rushed on, 

 striking into the mare's heels, and turned a complete 

 somersault right on the top of me. Sam Hibberd, 

 wdio was riding ' Skirmish,' fell over both of us. A 

 carriage was brought up the course, and I was taken 

 to my lodgings in Epsom. It was currently reported, 

 and also published in one evening paper, that I was 

 dead ; but, although unconscious for some time, I 

 came to myself about nine o'clock at night. Thanks 

 to my good condition, as I had been wasting hard to 

 ride 8 st. 4 lb., which was very light for me at that 

 time, I soon got over my accident. 



It was just one day less than five weeks from the 

 day I broke my collar-bone to the day I won the 

 Derby over the same course. On the first day of 

 that Epsom Summer Meeting I rode ' Breadalbane' 

 in the Craven Stakes, and ' Hermit ' in the Wood- 



