4 2 4 'PROMISED LAND' AND < DULCIBELLA.' 



Still, in the common course of things, he was kept 

 well to work with the rest of the horses, and galloped 

 most days ; until later on, when I was again struck 

 with the manner of his going, and thought, ' Surely 

 this horse is improved ;' and though it was but a 

 gallop, I could not help thinking of it for days after. 

 However, time wore on, and I purposely gave him 

 another good gallop with horses in form, and those 

 that I thought would not deceive me. In the result 

 I found that I had a good horse, and that what I had 

 seen before in his early gallops was correct. A few 

 davs after I tried him over again at a stone with 

 Happy Land, and he {Promised Land) won by a neck, 

 Nirrirod third, two lengths off at 18 lb. under him, and 

 Levis at 21 lb. half a length from Nimrod. three- 

 quarters of a mile. 



Feeling sure that Promised Land 'had speed as well as 

 endurance, I sent and backed him for the Derby at once, 

 before he ran in the New Stakes at Ascot, where I in- 

 tended him to make his first appearance in public. But 

 on his journey there, he met with an accident and hurt 

 his hock ; and though it was not to all appearance of 

 much consequence, I would not run him, but kept 

 him for Goodwood. Here in the Findon Stakes he 

 met the best two-year-old in England at 5 lb., and 

 but for Wells, his jockey, making too sure of his win- 

 ning, my horse would have been beat. The race 

 itself and the result is soon told. North Lincoln took 

 a decided lead immediately after starting, and Wells 



