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found out he could do as he Hked, and steadied his 

 horse to try to make a show of a race of it. Seeing 

 what he was doing, and knowing what a clinking 

 good horse I was riding against, I left off riding 

 ' Pericles,' not really pulling him up, but I left off 

 persevering. All at once something went crack, 

 and I believe I am correct in saying that the Duke of 

 Beaufort and the late Lord Westmorland both heard 

 it. I myself distinctly did so. ' Fitzroy ' stumbled, 

 and I had just time enough to set my horse going 

 again to win by a length. Had the accident hap- 

 pened fifty yards further, ' Fitzroy ' would have won 

 on three legs. I shall never forget Fordham pulling 

 both his feet out of the stirrup-irons, the horse going 

 on three legs, and my saying to him : 



" Jump off, George !" 



He replied : " Jump off! How about my knees ?" 



Eventually he did scramble off, and poor ' Fitzroy ' 

 was taken in a van to Mr. Barrow's, and was obliged 

 to be destroyed. It was a very unfortunate accident, 

 and Mr. Ten Broeck got a great deal of sympathy ; 

 but I think Sir Frederick Johnstone was more to be 

 pitied than anyone, considering he had given ^4,000 

 for half of the horse only the day before the accident 

 happened. 



They say, " Nothing succeeds like success," and 



