64 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



our edification that The Deemster had split a pastern. 

 Well, after all, a " split " is an excellent thing. 



In reference to the above articles, it is on record that 

 Gouverneur ran second to Common for the Derby, but 

 something went wrong with The Deemster in that race 

 and he never started again. Dorcas started second 

 favourite but ran jadily and never showed her home 

 form in public, except in one race later on when she was 

 a four-year-old and had that morning been mated with 

 Sheen. Then she won her race quite easily. Mimi and 

 Corstorphine, in the Oaks, completely vindicated Mathew 

 Dawson's judgment, and Mons Meg, whom George 

 Blackwell, who used to do her and ride her at exercise, 

 declares to have been the best of them all, won the 

 Gold Vase at Ascot running away, and would probably 

 have won Ragimunde's Cesarewitch had not her owner 

 insisted on her being tried over the full course the 

 Saturday before the race. 



At the Rutland Arms in those days the present 

 head-waiter (Corser) and the well-known " Boots" were 

 already installed, and I remember that Corser alarmed 

 Phil May as to the possible vagaries of his hack, called 

 Tomkins, when we rode out on the Sunday morning. 



I never saw Mathew Dawson show any self-conscious- 

 ness or lack of nerve, except when I was sitting with 

 him that night at Exning and Phil May, who was also 

 there, was just studying him. 



We paid a similar visitation to Marsh, then at Lord- 

 ship, and we were also shown all over the Jockey Club 

 rooms, including the royal bedroom, but, of course, that 

 was not for publication. The hoof of Eclipse is one 

 of the trophies in those rooms. 



