36 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



I rode a very bad race, due to want of 

 knowledge of my mare's powers and the 

 distance of the course, but these dis- 

 advantages I shared in common with my col- 

 leagues, I felt the justice of Captain " Bay " 

 Middleton's opinion, which I overheard, 

 and these were the last words I ever 

 heard him speak. Some one remarked 

 that my mare went magnificently. " Yes," 

 said Bay; "but she was damned badly 

 ridden," and he knew something of what 

 he was talking about. The following year, 

 however, we did something to retrieve our 

 character, as, with a turn of luck, we 

 won over a bigger country, and defeated 

 the winner of 1889 and 1890 — coming in 

 first with great ease. 



I have found the following lines, written 



