REGALIA 



who was pacemaker for Fordbam on Lecturer, the 

 race was run from end to end, and so good was the 

 pioneer — he won half a dozen races on his own 

 account that season — that they were well into the 

 straight before he was done with. Then Heart- 

 field saw Cannon looking round for Fordbam, 

 and, knowing what this meant, he watched bis 

 opportunity, and when John Davis was pulled out 

 to let up his stable companion on the inside. 

 Regalia, and not Lecturer, was the one that 

 promptly took advantage of the opening. This 

 smart move obliged Fordbam to steady his mount 

 and come round on the outside, but, in spite of 

 losing some ground, the little colt was too good 

 to be denied, and won by a length and a half. 

 Though Heartfield and Fordbam were always on 

 the best of terms, and it took a great deal to upset 

 the latter's equanimity, he did not at all like being 

 bested in this fashion, and, as they returned to 

 weigh in, said very solemnly, " Tom, if you'd beat 

 me I should have objected to you." Every in- 

 cident of this race is very clear in my mind, and I 

 always thought it was a daring thing on Fordham's 

 part to puU Lecturer right back when so near 

 home, but it was only recently that I heard the 

 explanation of it. 



Three races at an Ascot Meeting are generally 

 enough to finish a horse's career, but Regalia was 

 apparently made of cast iron, and on the following 

 Wednesday — the handicapper having been kinder 

 to her than usual — she cantered away from a 

 moderate field in the Windsor Summer Handicap. 

 Then came a curious race for the Queen's Plate at 

 Hampton. The course on JNIoulsey Hurst was 

 always very bare of grass, and recent rain had 

 made it greasy, so that Cannon, who had won a 

 couple of races that afternoon, warned Heartfield 



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