ILL-LUCK FOR 'NOISY: 169 



time before he had run second for the Metropolitan 

 Stakes. This result proved that if Noisy had only 

 run up to his form, as shown both in the race and in 

 his trial, he would have won the Cup. A similar 

 disappointment, and one due to the same cause, want 

 of proper control, met him in the Qity and Suburban 

 at Epsom. Here, in company with another horse, he 

 got away and ran the whole of the course through 

 and into the paddock before he could be stopped ; and 

 even then was third in the race itself. If Noisy had 

 not run in the Dee Stakes — and I was strongly 

 opposed to his running, wishing to keejD him for the 

 Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire — all the world would 

 have said he was a bad horse, and that I had mistaken 

 his form. Curiously, like Dulcamara, on his return 

 from Chester he was a confirmed roarer, and neither 

 could beat anything afterwards. 



With Cedric, for which he gave =£50, Mr. Parker 

 was more fortunate. Though a bad horse, he won 

 the Somersetshire Stakes at Bath, beating Pole Star 

 and several others in a common canter, and was then' 

 sold to Lord William Powlett for 1,100 guineas, with 

 his engagements ; none of which, nor any other, did 

 he ever win for his new owner. Sutherland, again, 

 may be classed with the lucky division ; for, though 

 a bad one, not within two stone of a racehorse, yet 

 in the Doncaster Stakes he ran second to Cape Fly- 

 away at even weights, beating St. Albans, the winner 

 of the St. Leger, at 10 lb., and Wizard, who ran 



