My Racing Adventures 



horse's weight being 12 st. 1 lb., and his running 

 pleased me so much that, in a short time after- 

 wards, I accepted a retainer to ride him in the 

 succeeding "National." He was trained by Mr 

 W. H. Moore, who also prepared " Manifesto " 

 and "The Soarer ' when they won our cross- 

 country championship, and who was, in his 

 younger days, a first - class horseman over a 

 country. His stories, by the way, relative to 

 some of his racing adventures abroad are exceed- 

 ingly humorous. 



Once, on the old Baden steeplechase course, 

 which represented a rough-and-tumble sort of 

 journey, a certain jockey had stuck bits of paper 

 at different points to mark out what he conceived 

 to be the best route for himself, but in the actual 

 race he found himself quite at sea — the paper 

 had been changed ! Somebody — who was it, Mr 

 Moore? — had defeated his ingenious manoeuvre. 

 His chagrin was complete. Vanquished easily, 

 he unfolded his woes to a friend after the race, 

 saying : " They altered the chart for me at the 

 last moment, and I got on the rocks, or" — his 

 eyes flashed — "I should have wrecked them 

 instead of being wrecked." Mr Moore tells the 

 tale with considerable unction, as he tells many 

 others to make people laugh heartily, and when 



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