3 S3 ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



some ' controllable cause ' than from an error in 

 judgment. 



With our other horses we ran first for the Danebury 

 Nursery with the colt by Vedette, dam by Cowl out 

 of Venus, and won a good stake over it. Manrico 

 was prevented running in the Goodwood Nursery by 

 an accident. But he afterwards won us, amongst other 

 races, the Trial Stakes at Lincoln, and the next day 

 was sold to Lord Westmoreland, for whom I won the 

 Lincolnshire Handicap with him. The other horses 

 Ave had together did nothing beyond winning many 

 races of little note. 



As the accident to Manrico was singular, the parti- 

 culars of it will be of interest. After arriving at 

 Westerton, where we were staying for the week, the 

 horses having been cleaned, watered, and fed, we 

 had our dinner, and soon after returned to the stable 

 to finish doing the horses for the night. On entering 

 Maurice's box, the boy that went into the stable first 

 came running; back to me and said : 



' Oh, sir, the horse is gone!' 



' Where to?' I asked. 



But he only replied : 



' I don't know.' 



The search for him was not so difficult as looking 

 for the proverbial pin in a bundle of hay, for I soon 

 saw his head about a foot below the surface of the 

 stable, oscillating, like the pendulum of a clock, from 

 one side to the other of a gloomy cavity. The well, 



