CHAPTER XXIV. 



' PROMISED LAND ' AND ' DULCIBELLA.' 



Happy Land — Purchase of Promised Land and joint ownership 

 with Mr. Robinson — How entered— Initial disappointment — 

 Improvement— Backed for the Derby — Beats and is beat by 

 North Lincoln— -Two Thousand trial and race — Receives forfeit 

 from Musjid — How I lost the Derby— The candid friend again 

 — My ' emaciated ' condition — Home Tooke and ' Old Smith's 

 bullocks ' — Incidents in the Derby — My confidence unabated — 

 A stereotyped answer — AVins the Goodwood Cup — Beat in the 

 St. Leger. 



Despised DulcibeUa — Trial of KUligrew— Helping a friend — 

 DukibelkCs trials — Mr. Copperthwaite's belief in Beck — Public 

 view of Sutherland's chance — The Cesarewitch — My dun pony 

 second — Killigrew's running — A grateful jockey — Dulcibellas 

 subsequent doings. 



I have mentioned how I disposed of Promised Land 



to Lord William Powlett, and received DulcibeUa in 

 part payment, or as I regard it, as being- ' thrown 

 in ' in the deal. I may now relate how I became 

 possessed of the former, or rather of my share in him, 

 and something of the performance of both horses 

 whilst under my care. I owned both of them jointly 

 with ' my friend Mr. Thomas Robinson, of High 

 Wycombe, Bucks, whose house I used often to visit 



