Training Experiences 



dashing man over fences ; he is now " schooling " 

 young hunters in Cheshire, and, needless to add, 

 he is doing it very well. Lord Marcus Beresford 

 thought that " The Vigil " was not good enough 

 for the King to keep, and I was very sorry that 

 I was unable to win a race with her in the Royal 

 colours. But for that fall at Sandown, leaving 

 me and our money in the mud, a different story 

 might have to be written. I should be pleased 

 to turn over, instead of turning out, its pages. 



"Lord William," a good-looking chestnut 

 horse by Poulet, was the best 2-mile 'chaser 

 that I ever trained. He had rather a curious 

 career. He won one hurdle race, and soon after 

 split his pastern in a gallop at home. We got 

 him over that accident, however, and I hacked 

 him about, finally putting him to the jumping 

 business over the regulation fences. He was a 

 hard-pulling, tear-away sort of customer — nobody 

 could hold him — but he was a magnificent, 

 natural " lepper," with a fine turn of speed. The 

 first time he ran in a steeplechase was at Hurst 

 Park in December 1895, when, ridden by Denby, 

 who was employed by me, he won the Went- 

 worth Handicap Steeplechase by twelve lengths, 

 beating amongst others Mr J. Miller's " Shoot- 

 away," a useful horse. On the following Monday 



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