WHERE COMFREY FINISHED 



Pincus ? Why, look what he's done already ! " I 

 felt like getting off, but thank goodness I didn't, for 

 if I had they would have put one of the lads up and the 

 horse would have been ruined. As it was I spared 

 him, although there was a horse to take him along and 

 another one to join in when half the distance had been 

 covered. With one thing and another he must have 

 covered 15 miles that morning and in my opinion 

 his chance for the Cesarewitch four days later was 

 ruined. I know that in that race he was the tiredest 

 horse you ever saw. It was a pity ! Luckily for the 

 horse he was eased up after the Cesarewitch until the 

 Cambridgeshire, a race I shall always think that I won. 

 In this second race my theory was that I was winning 

 all the time and that I led all the way. The big fellow 

 travelled with me as if he knew exactly what he had 

 to do. I saw one after the other drop out, and from 

 the Bushes home there were only three of us : I had 

 to watch Sandia, who I always kept almost clear of ; 

 Sir William Ingram's horse Comfrey was on the other 

 side of the course. I was confident that I had the 

 race in my pocket, but I kept the big horse going 

 nicely all the same, and the charge against me of over- 

 confidence was not merited. As a matter of fact I 

 shall always believe— in fact I know—that Comfrey, 

 who was given the race, was only third, Sandia being 

 second, three quarters of a length from me. There 

 was no one more surprised than I was myself, and in 

 my trouble I may have said that the race had been 

 " stolen from me." But I made no charge whatever 

 against Mr Robinson, the judge, a gentleman I have 

 always had respect for. What I did say in my dis- 

 appointment was certainly twisted round. The next 

 day Mr Robinson with a newspaper man came to the 

 jockeys' room and asked me exactly what I did say 

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