'LORD OF THE ISLES: 



was certainly a race to be remembered : three good 

 horses running for a large and very popular stake, 

 well and truly ridden by jockeys of the greatest 

 eminence in their most admirable style. Mr. Dixon 

 (alias ' Druid '), 'On Condition,' says : ' William Day 

 is popularly supposed to adopt the severe system ' (of 

 training) ; ' but be this as it may, we do not think 

 that we ever saw a horse brought to the post in more 

 perfect form than Lord of the Isles was for the Two 

 Thousand.' 



So much for the race between ' the Saint and the 

 Lord.' With the former we have done; but as the 

 latter failed to fulfil expectations in not winning the 

 Derby, the circumstances surrounding the latter race 

 may well be reviewed, if it be only to throw a little 

 light on a matter Avhich to most people is still an un- 

 solved problem. One of the things that ' no fellow 

 can understand,' is the inducement which led Mr. 

 Hill to keep backing Kingstown for this event, 

 against a horse that had just beaten him. To one 

 friend of that worthy who ventured to ask him the 

 question, he replied that ' the strong in battle was 

 not always victorious, nor the swift in the race ;' a 

 quotation, if properly cited, worthy of a better appli- 

 cation. It had, however, its own significant mean- 

 ing, not difficult to guess. There is one gentleman,. 

 I think, still living, who could, if he chose, give an 

 account of the whole thing that would at once 

 satisfy the most sceptical, that Lord of the Isles was 



