CHAPTER IV 



WITH PHIL MAY AT NEWMARKET 



The Rutland Arms Mathew Dawson and Morning Work Derby and 

 Oaks Candidates of 1891 Thoughts and Fancies Facts from 

 the Past Old and Young Tom Jennings Mimi, Dorcas and 

 Corstorphine The Deemster and Gouverneur Captain Machell 

 Concerning Touts Mathew Dawson and Phil May 



DURING the interval between the demise of 

 St Stephen's Review and my connection with 

 The Sportsman that is to say, the first three 

 quarters of 1891 I was trying to bring out a new Tory 

 paper, Big Ben, and incidentally doing work with Phil 

 May. His name is little remembered as touching the 

 sport of racing, and therefore it seems only right to give 

 here, with the kind permission of The Daily Graphic, a 

 series of illustrated articles which Phil May and I did at 

 Newmarket for that paper more than thirty years ago, 

 just before Common's Derby. We stayed for one week 

 at the Rutland Arms as the guests of the then manager, 

 Mr Stebbings, and this is how the thing panned out, in 

 what was really a remarkable year at any rate so far 

 as the three-year-old fillies in Mathew Dawson's stable 

 were concerned : 



"Daily Graphic" Monday, 2$th May 1891. 



PREPARING FOR THE DERBY (I.) 

 NOTES ON NEWMARKET HEATH 



By " BLINKHOOLIE " 



THERE is no more interesting week at Newmarket 

 throughout the whole year than that which immediately 

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