SALE OF 'DULCIBELLA: 447 



We gave Allen Sadler £300 for riding the race. 

 It was an acceptable gift to him, and he highly appre- 

 ciated our generosity. I suppose that were such a 

 sum offered on such an occasion to a jockey to-day, 

 it would be contemptuously returned with some such 

 elegant observation as, ' Perhaps, sir, you may be 

 more in want of it than I am.' 



I have related how we became possessed of Dulci- 

 bella, and it only now remains to say how we sold 

 her, and the reason for doing so. Didcibella. like 

 Promised Land, was sold because I did not think she 

 was, at the difference of age, so good as a four-year- 

 old as she had been at three. She was sold for 

 £1,500 under the following circumstances. She was 

 in the Ascot Cup, and Lord Stamford asked me, on 

 the first day of the race, if I would sell her. I asked 

 £1.500, which, however, his lordship said was too 

 much; but added that he would give £1,200, and 

 £300 more the first time she won. I accepted the 

 offer, and Ave got the sum first asked, as she won the 

 Queen's Plate at the same meeting, after being beat 

 for the Cup. She ran afterwards in ten or twelve 

 races, and as a six-year-old won the Great Yorkshire 

 Stakes at Doncaster ; but was beat subsequently and 

 retired from the turf, never having been so good as 

 she was as a three-year-old in October. Mr. Robin- 

 son and myself realized by her, in about fourteen 

 months, £2,705 by winning the Cesarewitch and her 

 sale. She won us, besides, nearly twenty times this 



