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The latter was a bay colt, three years old in 1880, 

 by that remarkable horse Prince Charlie. The 

 previous season, when the property of Lord 

 Anglesey, Prestonpans showed some very useful 

 form ; so useful, indeed, that in the Royal 

 Hunt Cup — his first race as a three-year-old, and 

 the first in which he carried Mr. Gretton's 

 colours — he was weighted 7 st. 10 lb. He 

 ran " unplaced." His next race was the Liver- 

 pool Cup. Until almost the last moment I 

 did not know whether I was to saddle Preston- 

 pans or Fernandez. Nor did Mr. Gretton. At 

 that time his betting interests were managed by 

 Mr. Fred Swindell — ** Lord Freddy " as his in- 

 timates generally called him — and when I went 

 to Liverpool he had not heard which of the 

 two horses was carrying his money. The public 

 assumed we should rely on Fernandez. They 

 were wrong ; Swindell backed Prestonpans, and 

 Fernandez did not run. This policy infuriated 

 the general body of backers, and after Preston- 

 pans, ridden by Fordham, had won by half a 

 length from Lord Drogheda's Philammon, with 

 the Duke of Beaufort's Petronel third, a neck 

 away, the crowd hooted and hissed viciously. 

 There was a further hostile demonstration in 

 the paddock while the horse passed through the 

 throng on his way to the unsaddling enclosure. 

 This was a new and altogether disagreeable 

 experience for me, and I need hardly say I left 



