1 68 MR. PARKER. 



could have foreseen. We were wiser after the event, 

 no doubt, which for the first time showed the advis- 

 ability of having the manger boarded to the ground 

 perpendicularly. 



Noisy, another horse in which Mr. Parker was 

 interested, was a good but unlucky animal. I bought 

 him for 100 guineas, when General Anson, on leaving 

 England, sold his horses at Tattersalls'. He was nearly 

 seventeen hands high, with very powerful limbs, and 

 action like a pony's. He ran in the Chester Cup 

 when Scythian won it, in 1855, the year Nancy broke 

 her leg and was shot. But he had no fair chance. 

 ]So boy could ride him in a crowd of other horses, 

 and particularly over a circular course like Chester, 

 the cock-pit of courses. This was most clearly proved 

 in two ways. When tried at home he beat Nabob at 

 18 lb., and, in the race, Nabob gave him 2 st. 12 lb. 

 and beat him. Comino- round the last turn but one 

 he had won in a canter, being many lengths first, and 

 all the rest beat. But the little boy on him could 

 neither hold him nor turn him ; and instead of going 

 round the last bend he went straight into the corner 

 and stopped short, and cantered up after the others 

 had passed him. He did this from no vice, but 

 simply because he did not know where to go, and the 

 boy could not guide him. The next day he won 

 the Dee Stakes easily, though only by half a length, 

 beating such good horses as Lord Alfred, Lady Tatton, 

 and Correobus ; the latter last, although but a short 



