GREAT MANCHESTER DAY 



own." I ordered a steak, fried potatoes and a big 

 salad. He tried to put himself right, but he was a 

 cheap fellow at anything of that kind, and I repeated 

 his words : " That's all right. I've had dinner with 

 you : now I'm just getting in to a little fancy work." 



^Vhen I'd finished he made no move to pay But 

 as a last little tiy he said : " How do you expect to 

 ride if you eat all that ? " 



" How am I going to ride if I don't eat once a day ? " 

 was the way I ended the conversation. 



There was no particular feature about the three 

 winners I rode at Derby, but after Derby came the 

 biggest thing I had done in England. It was at 

 Manchester. On Thursday I won on Bavelaw Castle 

 m the Rothschild Plate. On Friday I got Sapling 

 home m a very big field for the Ellesmere Welter • I 

 had been on him at Liverpool and had won on him 

 there too. ^^Oien I went out to the old New Barnes 

 track on the Saturday it was raining and the going 

 heavy. I had only one idea in my head— to get away 

 to London after racing was over, for I was going to 

 Pans and to Monte Carlo. I would have gone any- 

 where to get out of such weather ! I was thankful 

 that It was the last day of the season. That Saturday 

 afternoon crowd rather astonished me, and some of 

 them laughed at me as the crowd had done the first 

 time I was seen at Newmarket. Little did I think 

 what was waiting me later on that afternoon as I 

 cantered do^vn to the post on Captain Machell's Manx- 

 man for the Farewell Handicap. There was a field of 

 fourteen. I got the run of them and won it. I heard 

 afterwards the horse had been well backed. In the 

 next race I was on a favourite, Mr Wm. Clark's Le 

 Javelot, and I was expected to win. They gave me 

 a bit of a cheer as I won it. I wasn't riding in the 



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