TOD SLOAN 



had selected for the purpose, but he didn't know the 

 course either ! We struck a patch of fog so thick that 

 you could hardly see your hand before you. At last 

 the two of us landed in the middle of a field somewhere 

 and had to walk back to the paddock about twenty 

 minutes after the others. 



I was just inside the jockeys' room when the trainer, 

 a man with a very small stable, rushed in saying, 

 " Hurry up or you'll be too late to weigh out ; you 

 know you're to ride mine." 



" I'm not going to ride again ; it isn't riding at all 

 out there," I answered. 



He began bullying me and threatened to bring me 

 before the Stewards. Indeed he rushed out to do so, 

 but in less than a minute came the notice that the 

 rest of the programme had been postponed or 

 abandoned ! 



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