LORD FALMOUTH 



in the Jockey Club Cup, Out of Bounds, Tliurio, 

 Insulaire, Zut, and Touchet making up the 

 very strong field that finished behind her ; but 

 she did not prove a conspicuous success at the 

 stud, though her son Janissary bids fair to make 

 a big mark at tlie stud, and his own brother, 

 Bonnet Rouge, has been successful in a less 

 degree. 



Incomparably the best animal that Lord Fal- 

 mouth ever owned was Wheel of Fortune, the 

 wonderful little wheel that never once failed to 

 turn in favour of her backers until that fatal day 

 at York, when it would have been far more 

 judicious not to have started her. She was a bay 

 filly by Adventurer out of Queen Bertha, rather 

 on the small side, but possessed of the most 

 remarkable constitution. In fact, she was never 

 sick or sorry, and never refused a feed during 

 the two seasons that she was in training. There 

 never was such a remarkable doer, and nothing 

 came amiss to her, for she would dispose of a 

 walnut or an orange with the greatest apparent 

 enjoyment. One evening, the lad whose duty it 

 was to " do " her brought a couple of " Cooper's 

 pies" — a species of meat pie very popular with 

 the boys of Newmarket at that period — into the 

 stable. They were twisted up in a paper bag, 

 and he placed them in a corner of the manger, to 

 be safe and out of the way. He could not have 

 selected a more unfortunate hiding-place, for 

 " the Wheel " soon nosed them out, and, shaking 

 them out of the bag, speedily disposed of them 

 both. I could scarcely have credited this story 

 but for a curious circumstance that had happened 

 a few days before Swift related it to me. I went 

 down to the stables, taking the coarse end of a 

 mutton chop and some other scraps of meat for 



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