386 ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



only the fact that he closely pressed him across the 

 bottom and half-way up the hill that allowed Bap 

 just to divide them at the finish. With the winner 

 out, my horse must have won. It shows, indeed, how 

 much luck there is in having to meet good or bad 

 horses. For had Promised Land, in the year he won 

 it, met anything so good as The Wizard, he must 

 have lost ; just as Traducer, had he, in his year, 

 nothing better to beat than Cynricus, must have won. 

 Traducer, after winning a race for us at Chester, was 

 sold for £1,500 to Lord William Powlett, as I have 

 named. 



I stood more money outright, i.e., without hedging 

 a shilling, on The Gillie, at Goodwood, for the 

 Nursery there, than I ever did on any other race. 

 How far I was justified the trial will show. The 

 following are the horses that took part in it, and the 

 weights each carried : 



The Gillie, 2 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . . .1 



Muezzin, 2 yrs., 7 st. 5 lb. ... 2 



Surbiton Hill, 3 yrs., 7 st. . . . .3 



Salisbury, 2 yrs., 6 st. . . .4 



Ground good going after the late rain. AYon 

 by a length ; three lengths and a length, respec- 

 tively, separating the others. Distance, one mile. 

 All the horses were in good form at the time. 

 Muezzin had won the New Two-year-old Stakes at 

 Epsom Spring Meeting, beating Orphan, that had 

 the day before won the Two-year-old Stakes, and 



