A GREAT YEAR 



to do it, " so when they started on a third I thought I 

 might as well join in ! " 



Sir George Chetwynd worked out the form and 

 pronounced it to be just 21 lb. wrong. The truth 

 was that Watts and Fred Barrett were in too great a 

 hurry to get home, and by judiciously waiting with 

 Enthusiast, Mr. Douglas Baird's colt was able to beat 

 one who was vastly his superior. In the nineties 

 waiting races were discredited. We were told that 

 the only correct method of race riding was to " come 

 through." Thus Sloan, undoubtedly a genius, gained 

 many of his successes. In truth he often waited, 

 though he did so in front, and when he and his imitators 

 had passed away, Maher and F. Wootton, one or other 

 of whom headed the list of winning jockeys year after 

 year for a good many seasons — as a rule a long way 

 before the nearest of their followers — went back to the 

 tactics which had for generations been found to answer. 

 Because a horse is beaten a head it by no means follows 

 that his owner has had bad luck, as is so frequently 

 assumed, and the question whether the Duke was 

 unlucky in having an inferior jockey on his good colt 

 raises a point which need not be argued. 



Donovan, who prior to the Two Thousand had won 

 the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Leicester, worth 

 £11,000, proceeded to win the Newmarket Stakes 

 from another colt belonging to the Duke, named The 

 Turcophone, an event then worth £6000, Enthusiast 



