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other nomination, Launcelot. Again, the difficulty of having two strong strings 

 to one's bow was seen with Lord Jersey's Maine hike and Glenartney in the Derby 

 of 1827. The famous Fred Swindell got his start in life from the fact that 

 Rockingham won the St. Leger of 1833, though Mr. Watt's money was on his 

 other horse, Belshazzar. This must have been a result which the trainer could 

 possibly have explained. A similar catastrophe has occasionally occurred owing 

 to the annoyance of a jockey at being put up to ride on what the stable had publicly- 

 confessed to be their second string. It must have been for some such reason that 

 Whitehouse won the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood in 1847 with The Cur, after 

 Mr. Rolt had declared to win with his other horse, Collingwood ; and Tom French 

 must have been inspired with similar motives when, on Gomera, he beat Daley by a 

 head, onfa/ius, for the Hurstbourne Cup at Stockbridge in 1868, though the Duke 

 of Newcastle had only put in Gomera to make up the number of runners sufficient 

 to secure Julius a prize. Sometimes the public entirely neglect the lessons of a 

 race, run where all the world may see, under strict regulations and with reasonable 

 precautions, yet they will pin their faith to the mere rumour of a private trial that 

 may mislead any one who is not fully aware of all the circumstances. At other times 

 the public back their fancy in spite of any declaration, as it was fully expected they 

 would have done if the Duke of Portland had not let Memoir run her own race 

 for the Oaks, and as they certainly did when the Duke of Hamilton declared his 

 Midlothian (10 to i) for the Stewards' Cup (on the afternoon that Wheel of Fortune 

 and Peter appeared as two-year-olds), and his Lollypop started nearly favourite 

 at 4 to i. It was Admiral Rous's opinion that to tell a jockey to pull a horse, under 

 any circumstances, was to brutalise him ; whereas Mr. Chaplin, with more fairness 

 and logic, held, in a famous case at Shrewsbury in 1871, that an owner who made a 

 public declaration had done all that could reasonably be expected of him. Certainly 

 the owner is very badly treated when a jockey ignores both riding instructions and 

 declaration. But a trainer is even worse served whose jockey deliberately pulls 

 a horse in a trial in order to produce a false impression. This happened when 

 Edwards stopped Lord Stamford's chestnut Diophanttis, by Orlando, one of the 

 favourites for the Two Thousand of 1861, when he was tried with Imdus, a trick 

 which was played in order that French, the stable's first jockey, should have a losing 

 mount. Prince Batthyany was astonished at the opportunities he was given for 

 getting his money on to Diophantus, owing to an early and very considerable 

 commission having been forgotten when the result of the false trial was acted upon 



