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cote Stakes. I recollect poor Tom McGeorge saying 

 to me when I got to the post on ' Hermit,' that they 

 "had no business to put you on that horse to-day, 

 as he was very awkward at the post at Bath." Mr. 

 Chaplin's horse certainly bored his heaci, and was 

 restive, hurting my shoulder very much ; but I did 

 not say anything about it. Next day I rode ' Lord 

 Lyon,' and won, beating ' Savernake ' a head, poor 

 Tom French riding. Of course they blamed him, 

 as is the custom when a jockey is just beaten for a 

 big race, and said he ought to have won ; but the 

 result was the same in the St. Leger, when they 

 took French off and put T. Chaloner up. 



Mr. Sutton and his friends all said ' Lord Lyon ' 

 would have won much easier if my arm had been all 

 riofht, but I told them at the time if I had had five 

 arms I should not have won any further. ' Lord 

 Lyon ' was a very nice horse to ride, and free enough, 

 although not a puller. I went to Ilsley ten days 

 before the Derby to do riding work and get myself 

 fit, as Sir James Paget, whom I had consulted, had 

 advised me to do so, but I was to ride a quiet horse at 

 first. When I walked on to the Downs with the late 

 James Dover, I recollect him calling to Thomas (the 

 stable-jockey who rode ' Lord Lyon ' in the Two 

 Thousand) to bring the horse for me to get on. I 



