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I liked him, and I think I may say that he liked 

 me. I gladly give him credit for having taught 

 me a great deal. We worked well together. 

 Some men would have objected to a stripling 

 being put over them as I was put over him by 

 Mr. Padwick ; but Goater never showed any 

 resentment. Indeed, I think he was greatly 

 relieved by not having my work to do. 



One of the horses Goater took over from John 

 Day was Mr. Padwick*s Yellow Jack, a chestnut 

 colt by Birdcatcher. A two-year-old in 1855, 

 his only race that season was in a Sweepstakes 

 at Newmarket in October, and he won. Inas- 

 much as odds of 6 to i were laid on him we must 

 have tried him to be pretty smart. The following 

 year Yellow Jack had a record which causes 

 him to be cited to this day as a luckless horse. 

 He ran in six races in 1856, and was invariably 

 placed second ! The events in which he thus 

 failed were the Two Thousand Guineas (won by 

 Fazzoletto), the Chester Cup, the Derby (won by 

 Ellington), the Ascot Derby, the Goodwood Cup, 

 and a Sweepstakes at Doncaster. It was a most 

 tantalising sequence. Some people were inclined 

 to regard him as a shirker when the pinch came, 

 but in the stable we considered him a good, 

 honest horse, dogged by bad luck. He did not 

 race after his three-year-old days. 



One of our two-year-olds of 1856 was 

 Chevalier d'Industrie, who, by Orlando, was the 



