GALOPIN AND PETRARCH 



and it is impossible to estimate how much weight 

 he had in hand. When taxed with throwing away 

 a chance by losing so many lengths at Tattenham 

 Corner, Morris replied, " He'd won his race, and 

 I meant to keep him out of danger," and, under 

 the circumstances, the course he adopted was 

 probably a judicious one. It may here be remarked 

 that Morris deserves a far higher character as a 

 jockey than that which has often been given to 

 him. He was severely handicapped by being very 

 deaf, just as was Harry Grimshaw by his short 

 sight, but, whilst it could never be claimed for him 

 that he was a Fordham or an Archer, he could 

 always be relied upon to ride strictly to orders, 

 and John Dawson considers him to have been 

 quite up to the average of the jockeys of his day. 



Galopin's next engagement was in the Fern 

 Hill Stakes at Ascot, a race which he had won in 

 the preceding year. His four opponents were two- 

 year-olds, the most notable of them being the 

 flying fillies, Coronella and Bella. The former, who 

 had begun the season by winning the Brocklesby 

 Stakes, secured six other races in the course of 

 the next few weeks, and went to Ascot with an 

 unbeaten certificate. Bella's form was not quite so 

 brilliant as this, but she had landed the Althorp 

 Park Stakes — a far more important event then than 

 it is now — and only once known defeat in five 

 essays. I well remember that I went to Ascot on 

 that particular day for the express purpose of back- 

 ing Coronella, and could scarcely believe my eyes 

 when neither she nor anything else in the race 

 could live with the Derby winner for a single 

 stride. Then, with no engagement in the St. Leger, 

 the colt had an idle time until the Newmarket 

 Second October, when his memorable match with 

 Lowlander took place. This is such an historical 



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