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reaching the Bushes she was two or three hundred 

 yards first, and all the rest beat, Killigrew being third 

 or fourth. Here I was stationed on a little dun- 

 coloured pony, about twelve hands high, but very fast; 

 and I rode up by the side of the mare, and told the 

 boy to hold her tight, riding right in before the 

 other horses, causing quite a sensation, as I after- 

 wards heard, on the stand, where many people 

 thought that I must have been run over by the ruck 

 coming behind. But their kindly feelings were re- 

 lieved when they saw me pull out of the track and 

 pass the winning-post with the horses in front. 

 Judge Clark the next day facetiously told me that 

 ' he had placed me second.' 



Of course, in riding in with the leading horses, I 

 had committed a terrible offence. Martin Starling, 

 the clerk of the course, w r as very much annoyed, and 

 threatened to have me up before the stewards, as I 

 had made myself liable to a penalty of £5. But it 

 all ended in smoke. I should mention that, at the 

 Doncaster St. Leger just preceding, I had happened 

 to be standing near the gate as the winner, St Albans, 

 entered the weighing enclosure, when he lashed out 

 and broke the small-bone of my arm. At the Cesare- 

 witch my arm was still in splints, and consequently 

 when riding as I have described, I was wearing an 

 Inverness-cape, and this became inflated like one of 

 Coxwell's monster balloons. This will give a good idea 

 as to the distance Dulcibella must have been from the 



