444 'PROMISED LAND' AND ' DULCIBELLA.' 



things I had ever seen. I need not perhaps say, that 

 after Sutherland had run at Doncaster, everyone there 

 said he could not have lost the Cesarewitch if only he 

 had been entered in it; and, in short, I could only 

 satisfy these commentators by confessing that I had 

 made ' a deplorable mistake.' In the race itself, which 

 we now come to, nothing, I may say, could have stayed 

 better than Dulcibella did. After saddling and canter- 

 ing her, I saw Bennett, and asked him where Killigrew 

 was ; and being told that he was at the post, and 

 that ' Jim ' (J. Adams) had his orders as agreed, I 

 suggested that we should go together and impress 

 them upon him. When we got to the post, I ad- 

 dressed myself to Jim, and said : 



' Mr* Bennett wants you to take hold of your 

 old horse's head and come as well with him as you 

 can directly you are off ;' and turning to Bennett, I 

 inquired, ' This is so, is it not ?' to which he replied : 

 ' Oh yes, certainly.' And we parted. By doing this I 

 was sure that Killigrew would be ridden to the best ad- 

 vantage in the opinion of his master and jockey, who 

 both believed in his staying powers; and, for all I 

 knew, he mio;ht have been fitter to run then than he 

 was when I tried him. But I knew he would likewise be 

 assisting my mare. My orders to Allen Sadler were 

 to lie two lengths off Killiqrew till he ffot to the 

 Ditch, and then come as well as he could the rest 

 of the way. Killigrew was first through the Ditch- 

 gap, and Dulcibella next; and a long way before 



