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subscribers, in a canter, beating six others, little Hiett 

 riding her. She next ran at York. Here a telegram 

 arrived for ine just before going on the course from 

 Mr. Dalton, asking me to get Frank Butler to ride 

 her, which I did. At this Sam Rogers was furious, 

 and wanted to know why he could not ride her. I 

 simply said, ' Because Mr. Dalton has instructed me 

 to get Frank Butler.' Notwithstanding this, he was 

 extremely rude and abusive, saying he knew I had 

 prevented him from riding her. So far he was right, 

 but there was no good in my telling him so. I told 

 Frank the mare was a little slow, and wanted a good 

 pace; and if nothing else made it, he was to do so 

 himself. To which he said, ' Very well.' The pace 

 was bad, and he never went near his horses first or 

 last, and pulling-up opposite the grand-stand, was a 

 bad third. In this race probably the principle of 

 reciprocity embodied in the axiom that ' one good 

 turn deserves another ' was worked out. If Sam 

 served Frank at Epsom, Frank served Sam at York. 

 And yet the combined skill of these two wonderful 

 jockeys was insufficient to make the public believe in 

 the honesty of either; and without such a result, what 

 was their talent worth? — not a fig. 



Naturally, after weighing, I had an interview with 

 Frank Butler, and he gave as an excuse that the 

 mare had lost her form, and had gone a roarer. I 

 replied that if she had it was since the morning; to 

 which he rejoined that she could beat nothing, in the 



