PARADOX 233 



Guineas and Farewell for the One Thousand. 

 The result did not say much for Farewell's 

 chance in the fillies' race, but it encouraged us 

 to believe that Paradox was certain to win the 

 Two Thousand. And win he did, with odds 

 of 3 to I laid on him. But we experienced some 

 exciting moments before his number went up, 

 for it was by a head only that he got the better 

 of Crafton, a 200 to 7 chance, ridden by Tom 

 Cannon. There were many people who blamed 

 Archer for the way he handled Paradox that 

 day. The late Sir George Chetwynd echoed 

 the criticism. 



" Crafton," he wrote, " was marvellously ridden by 

 Cannon, whereas Archer, who had to make his own running 

 on the favourite, got a little bit flurried, and did not ride as 

 well as usual. Wood, who was on the third (Child of the 

 Mist) told me after the race that, although no one ought to 

 know better than himself what a splendid jockey Archer 

 was, and no one was more ready to say so, still in this 

 instance he rode a bad race, and he expressed his belief 

 that Paradox would win the Derby. No doubt Cannon 

 would have won on Crafton but that Paradox swerved 

 and seriously interfered with him in the last few strides." 



With all due respect to Sir George Chetwynd 

 (who died in 19 17) and Charles Wood, that 

 version of the affair is founded on a misappre- 

 hension. Paradox had his peculiarities. One of 

 them was a rooted objection to making running. 

 He was also a lazy horse. In the Two Thousand, 



