62 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



Mr J. B. Leigh's colt will win, nor should we be in the 

 least surprised to find the much vaunted Common very 

 far from being the good horse some people imagine. 



OLD BOOTS 



We stated yesterday that Old Boots is the latest 

 Newmarket tip, and it is alleged that he will take a 

 very great deal of beating indeed if the ground is 

 holding. It would seem sacrilege for a horse with 

 such a name to win the Derby ; and one cannot imagine 

 why he was sent to Manchester if he really is a Derby 

 horse, still less why his chance was risked by entrusting 

 him to a boy who knew he could not hold him, and who 

 had positively nothing on to protect him from the cold 

 but breeches, boots, jacket and a cap. Those who saw 

 his exhausted condition after the race wondered how he 

 ever managed to sit on Old Boots at all. We mention 

 this because the horse, after numerous vagaries, did 

 undoubtedly run very well, and, in the hands of 

 Mornington Cannon, might carry on Colonel North's 

 run of luck, even in the Derby. But it is all against 

 him that he is the elect outsider of Newmarket, and 

 for our own part we think his stable companions, 

 FitzSimon and Simonian, will have to be reckoned 

 with. The last-mentioned colt stays well, although 

 the touts will tell you otherwise, and as Colonel North 

 gave 4000 guineas for him when a yearling, he ought, 

 on the principle of "money making the mare or horse 

 to go," to be "thereabouts" in the Derby. 



MATHEW DAWSON SATISFIED 



It is stated that Dorcas did not give satisfaction in 

 her gallop of last Saturday with Pelf. We can only 



