i6o MR. PARKER. 



rather upright in her fore-legs, in which she gave 

 way after winning the Chester Cup. One Act and Joe 

 Miller were the two most successful horses Mr. Parker 

 ever owned, either in part or wholly. And their vic- 

 tories in his native county, in the race of the meeting 

 — the Chester Cup — where he was on both occasions 

 surrounded by friends and neighbours, considerably 

 heightened his delight at his success, independently 

 of the fact of winning a large stake on each horse. 



In One Act we soon knew we had a treasure ; 

 although, from circumstances now to be related, Ave 

 had not the opportunity of winning all the races that 

 we might have won, had we been more favoured with 

 luck. She stayed well, and, as a two-year-old, was 

 tried with the three-year-old Sultan, at 22 lb., a mile 

 and a distance, and beat him. This would have 

 made her, as a two-year-old, the winner of the Cam- 

 bridgeshire at 5 st. 12 lb. So, when the handicaps 

 for next year came out, with the mare in the Chester 

 Cup at 4 st. 3 lb., which would be like putting Sultan 

 in as a four-year-old at 6 st., it not only looked a 

 good thing, but made the race our own on paper. 

 She was entered in all five of the Spring Handicaps — 

 the City and Suburban, Metropolitan, Great Northern, 

 Flying Dutchman Stakes at York, and the Chester 

 Cup. And assuredly she would, bar accidents, have 

 won the whole of them, had she started for the two 

 first ; but this she was prevented doing in the 

 following way. 



