MATCH BETWEEN 'GREY MOM US' AND 'BAMBOO.' 8 9 



leading to the bushes, when he again stood still from 

 the severity of the pace, and Grey Momus won much 

 more easily than he did before — a result certain, 

 indeed, from the way in which the race was run. It 

 was bad enough to get beat with a good horse unpre- 

 pared, but much worse not to have known it ; and 

 the height of folly to make running with a horse in 

 such a condition, after seeing how he tired in the 

 first race. There was much betting on both events, 

 particularly on the Two Thousand Guinea Stakes, and 

 the excitement great. I think the amount of money 

 Lord Suffield lost over the two races was the cause of 

 his temporary retirement from the turf ; but he after- 

 wards had his revenge, for Caravan beat Grey Momus 

 in the Houghton Meeting, over the T. M. M., in a match 

 for 1,000 sovereigns ; as did Vulture, Colonel Peel's 

 mare, for the same sum when he was a two-year-old. 



Lord George did not, on the whole, get much by 

 his matching for heavy sums ; for I do not re- 

 member that he ever matched any of his other horses 

 for so large a stake, though he made many matches for 

 less. With respect to Grey Momus, I should perhaps 

 tell that when he won the Ascot Cup, beating 

 Caravan and Epirus, the jockey of the latter must, I 

 think, have backed the gallant grey which I was 

 riding. For just as we entered the straight he rode 

 up beside me, and shouted excitedly in his well-known 

 tongue, ' Go on, go on, or you will be beat !' and then 

 disappeared like a shooting-star from the front, and I 



