MACDONALD'S DISTRUST 



mare for second place, but as I have already men- 

 tioned Phil never told me what he was doing, and I 

 had no more idea than the dead which he had backed. 

 As I learnt several days later his money, thousands 

 atter thousands of dollars, was piled on Hamilton to be 

 second. 



Thinking that I knew all about it, MacDonald went 

 to the Stewards and asked permission to take me off 

 his mare and put up another jockey ; but he was told 

 that they saw no sufficient reason why they should, 

 but they would watch the race very closely and if 

 they saw anything peculiar they would be the first to 

 take action. He argued, but all his talk was no good ; 

 they had spoken the last word. Nothing was said 

 to me by ^" Mac " and I won the place for him. 



" Mac " came to me directly after the race : " That's 

 all right, Tod ; you did ride a good race ! I thought 

 she'd beat Hamilton, but if it hadn't been for your 

 riding she wouldn't have done it." 



Five days after two prominent owners went to my 

 principal employer, Mr Fleischman, and told him to 

 put me wise about what Jack MacDonald had done 

 adding that before Mac had gone to the Stewards he 

 had told one of them that it was quite certain that Tod 

 was not going to do his best. And all the time I had 

 It all dead set to beat Hamilton ! Mr Fleischman did 

 as was suggested, and as a consequence I went up to 

 Mac " on the race-track directly afterwards and asked 

 him why he did it, and he tried to explain to me that 

 the race had meant such a lot to him, and as " Pitts- 

 burg Phil " " your intimate friend " had put so much 

 money on Hamilton he was afraid it might be 

 a great temptation to me to do my pal a good 

 turn. ^ 



I told him that I didn't want to know him again and 

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