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Longfield died very suddenly in his Turkish bath, 

 and was a great loss to the Irish turf. 



'Fantastic' was a good horse. He won the 

 Whittlebury Stakes at Northampton, beating a great 

 favourite in 'Livingstone,' giving him 3 lb. Lord 

 Stamford owned the latter, and backed him for a lot 

 of money that day, and Joseph Dawson told me 

 afterwards he didn't think he could be beaten. I 

 rode 'Fantastic' in the Derby of 1863, and he 

 unluckily broke down through jumping over ' King 

 of the Vale' and ' Saccharometer,' who both fell 

 in front of him just as we were going through 

 the furzes at the three-quarter-mile post. ' Fan- 

 tastic ' blundered on to his nose and knees, after 

 jumping clean over the two horses ; and David 

 Hughes, who was riding ' Saccharometer,' and 

 Johnnie Daley, who was on the back of ' King of 

 the Vale,' were both thrown clean under the rails 

 all amongst the furze, but, happily, neither of them 

 was hurt. I was sent on to ' Fantastic's ' neck, but 

 hung on to the throat-lash for some time, and 

 eventually got back into the saddle somehow. Un- 

 fortunately, I found my horse had broken down 

 badly, and was obliged to pull him up and walk 

 home. We had tried him well with 'Millionaire,' 

 and he would most likely have run into a place, 



