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dreadful rogue. I recollect he cost Mr. T. Hughes, 

 of Epsom, who had him afterwards, a lot of money 

 through his tricks. 



It is quite impossible for me to mention all the fine 

 races I have seen Fordham ride. With one especially 

 I was very much impressed, and so were many 

 others who will corroborate me. This was when he 

 won the Cambridgeshire of 1871 on ' Sabinus.' This 

 race especially was most beautifully timed and reso- 

 lutely finished. Whilst on this topic I must relate a 

 little anecdote of Fordham's reappearance in the 

 saddle after an absence of two years through illness. 

 Mr. T. Jennings gave him his first mount in the 

 Bushes Handicap, on a horse called ' Pardon,' be- 

 longing to Count Lagrange, at the Newmarket 

 Craven Meeting of 1878. Fordham would not 

 mount in the Birdcage, as no one hated flattery 

 more than he did. We went down the course 

 together to the Ditch Mile starting-post, and he got 

 into the saddle about half-way down. He seemed 

 all right at first, but just before we got to the post 

 his spirits failed him, and he said to me : 



" Cus, I wish I hadn't got up." 



" Why, George ?" was my answer ; whereupon he 

 resumed : 



" Look at those kids ; I don't know one of them." 



