CHAPTER VI. 



The Wroughton Stable — Mr. W. S. Cartwright, Tom Olliver, and 

 Tom Leader — A Dead Heat between ' Ely ' and ' General 

 Peel ' for the Ascot Cup — ' George Frederick ' gets the Blue 

 Ribbon — A Game Mare — Captain "Chicken" Hartopp at 

 Hampton Races — Tales of Tom Olliver. 



^ Y riding career extended over twenty- 

 three years, and Mr. Cartwright, who 

 first employed me in 1863, is a 

 master whom I must always speak 

 well of. Perhaps he was not liked by 

 everybody, but I must write of the leading patron of 

 the Wroughton stable as I found him. Eccentric in 

 manner, he was always good at heart. My first 

 success in the " scarlet jacket and black cap " was on 

 ' Fairwater ' (named after his own place in Wales), 

 in the Great Northamptonshire Stakes of 1863. I 

 won several other races on her, including the Ascot 

 Gold Vase, etc., afterwards. Certainly the best 

 horse I ever rode for Mr. Cartwriofht, or that ever he 



