xiv CONTENTS. 



PACK. 



Catch 'em Alive, Sultan, and Foxhall — FoxhalVs wonderful 

 victory — Compared with Tristan and Iroquois — Need of a 

 ' stayer ' in the Cambridgeshire — Value of trials — Story of 

 the fraud as to weight in Catch ''em Alive 's year — Jockeys in 

 trials — Jockeys and ' stable-boys ' in the saddle contrasted — 

 Instances and their teaching - 403-420 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



' PROMISED LAND ' AND ' DULCIBELLA.' 



Happy Land — Purchase of Promised Land and joint ownership 

 with Mr. Robinson — How entered — Initial disappointment — 

 Improvement — Backed for the Derby — Beats and is beat by 

 North Lincoln — Two Thousand trial and race — Receives for- 

 feit from Musjid— How I lost the Derby — The candid friend 

 again — My ' emaciated ' condition — Home Tooke and ' Old 

 Smith's bullocks ' — Incidents in the Derby— My confidence 

 unabated — A stereotyped answer — "Wins the Goodwood Cup 

 — Beat in the St. Leger. 



Despised Didcibella — Trial of Killigrew — Helping a friend 

 — Didcibella. s trials^— Mr. Copperthwaite's belief in Bevis — 

 Public view of Sutherland's chance — The Cesarewitch — My 

 dun pony second — K'dligreio's running — A grateful jockey — 

 Dulcibelkis subsequent doings - 421-44& 



CHAPTER XXV. 



MR. THOMAS ROBINSON. 



Glee, by Touchstone— Young Trumpeter and horses jointly owned 

 — Sale of Conductor-— Characteristics — A luncheon at High 

 Wycombe— As a story-teller— Examples : ' The farmer and 

 his wife' 'British brandy' — A levee at Newmarket; Mr. 

 Robinson in the chair — ' The changeable foxhound puppy ' — 

 An octogenarian breaking a colt — A tremendous jump — 

 Perilous coachmanship— Energy in old age—' A bright beacon 

 for imitation'— Conclusion - - - 449-466 



