Photo, by Clarence Hailcy, St Johns Wood and Newmarket. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Nellie Reid — Sample and his Machine— A Class at Woolwich — Mr Hermann 

 Vezin — Ormonde — Mr John Porter — Breaking at Kingsclere — School- 

 work for Race-horses— Captain Fitzgerald. 



HAVING finished my Indian tour, I returned to England 

 to spend the money I had made. Landing at Liver- 

 pool, and seeing that Sample was running a show there, I 

 went to the circus he had taken, and found he was having an 

 equine variety entertainment with Nellie Reid, two trick horses 

 called Pet and Daisy, and some clever jumpers, in conjunction 

 with his horse-taming class. Miss Reid was a bold, fine 

 horsewoman, who, two or three years before, had drawn all 

 London to the Westminster Aquarium to see her ride over a 

 reputed 6-foot wall on poor John Wilson's Australian gelding, 

 Union. Cavanagh, a jockey well-known in India and Ceylon, 

 used to ride with her on a clever, long-tailed grey horse. 



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