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having heard of the supposed certainty, hastened down 

 to Liicknow and backed the horse in the lotteries, as if 

 the race was " all over bar shouting." Captain Papillon 

 and myself "went for" Duchess and Brown Duchess, 

 while we " saved ourselves " on War Eagle. Both of 

 us, and Mr. Short, knew that if the fearfully impetuous 

 Time were allowed to go quietly over the first couple 

 of fences, he would, after that, settle down, and, favoured 

 by his light weight, almost to a certainty win. Hence 

 we resolved to make the pace as hot as we could from 

 the start, which, on that occasion, was quite a quarter 

 of a mile from the first fence, a mud wall that was 

 hardly broad enough for three horses abreast — such was 

 the management in those days ! When the flag was 

 lowered we all went away as if we were doing a five- 

 furlong scurry. The leading horses. Time, the two 

 Duchesses, and War Eagle, were racing at each other 

 when they came to the mud wall. The squeeze here 

 of the large field was so tight, that Time, just on my 

 right, struck it very hard, pecked badly on the other 

 side, and disposed of his rider. Duchess rolled over 

 Captain Papillon. Sunbeam tumbled down with 

 Captain Grant. Hildegarde fell on her shoulder and 

 injured herself for life, while Harkaway also came to 



