Gentlemen Riders 



Handicap Steeplechase of ^420 (11 st. 8 lbs.), three and a half 

 miles, beating The Screw, Pot-Pourri, and Spatchcock. 



1865. Ran in Grand National (11 st. 6 lbs.), but was 

 knocked over by Arbury and fell. Second in Open Steeple- 

 chase, won by Bridegroom, at the National Hunt Meeting at 

 Wetherby. 



During the time I was training and riding, I purchased 

 two "chance horses," at very low prices, that turned out very 

 well. 



The first was a thoroughbred mare that, by her good 

 looks, attracted my attention as she was standing in a single 

 brougham in Piccadilly when I was returning from Tattersall's 

 to my hotel. Before I moved on, a lady came from one of 

 the houses and took her seat in the carriage, and, no sooner 

 was the footman on the box than the coachman, foolishly, 

 started the mare with the whip instead of with the reins. 

 The street being slippery, she lost her foothold, and fell 

 heavily, breaking one of the shafts. 



I lent assistance in setting her free, and was fortunate 

 enough to hear the lady passionately rate the coachman, and 

 tell him never to put the mare in harness again, and to sell 

 her for whatever she would fetch. 



I at once decided to see her in her stable, and to ascertain 

 — if I could — her lowest price. All I could get out of the 

 coachman was that his mistress was very angry, and that the 

 mare must go. However, after wringing from him the admis- 

 sion that the mare, if sent to the hammer, would make no more 

 than thirty or forty pounds, and that, with the cuts and bruises 

 on her head, shoulders, and legs, she would not be fit to sell 

 for several weeks, I offered to take her then and there for 

 thirty pounds. 



He hesitated somewhat, and then said he thought he could 



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