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The transfer had taken place the previous day, 

 when Bones ran second for a Sweepstakes. 

 Immediately after the Match he reverted to 

 Lord Westmoreland. Bones was, I think, the 

 only racehorse Lord Sefton ever owned, and he 

 used laughingly to boast to me that he was 

 ** still invincible " because no horse of his had 

 ever been beaten I 



Merry Hart was in a different class. He 

 ran eighteen times as a two-year-old, and was 

 first past the post on seven occasions. The 

 following year he was one of the leading figures 

 in the Cambridgeshire, at Newmarket, over 

 which there was the bother about the loaded 

 scales. Although long odds were betted against 

 Merry Hart, we thought he had a very good 

 chance of winning. He was beaten a head by 

 William Day's Catch 'em Alive, who started 

 second favourite at 4 to i. The following extract 

 from the Calendar explains what then happened : 



When the jockeys returned to weigh after the race, 

 the Clerk of the Scales found that the rider of Catch 'em 

 Alive did not draw the proper weight. He was first 

 weighed without a whip, and a whip was afterwards 

 given to him, which was stated to be the one he rode 

 with ; this barely made him weight, and the owner of 

 the second horse objected to the jockey being weighed 

 with anything given to him after he got into the scale. 

 The Clerk of the Scales requested the Stewards to come 

 into the weighing-room, and they decided that a jockey 

 not having brought his whip with him into the scale 



