WHAT CHARLES HAWTREY MISSED 



any doubt about the eventual result except once. 

 He had trained the horse and knew him by heart. 



There wasn't a great amount of money lost by the 

 American division nor a vast amount by the French, 

 but the price, with Flying Fox starting at 5 to 2 on, 

 would have given a splendid return if only Holocaust 

 had won. There never was a Derby I heard more 

 discussed, and the arguments as to what would have 

 happened had not the accident occurred never seemed 

 to end. I was often referred to, but with the exception 

 of telling M. de Bremond and one or two intimate 

 friends, I never thought it worth going over hour after 

 hour and day after day. It might have appeared, if 

 I had given the opinion emphatically in print as I 

 am doing now, that I was conceited enough to think 

 that I could win on " anything " — and I was anxious 

 not to have too many unpleasant little things attributed 

 to me ! But — just once more — it was 10 to 1 my 

 beating Flying Fox after the incidents at the post. 

 This is repetition I know. But I will add yet again 

 in a different phrase that it was 20 ^o 1 against my 

 beating him if we had got away at the first attempt. 

 I want to emphasise everything I have said in 

 praise about the great son of Orme in a previous 

 chapter. 



I dare say that Charles Hawtrey may sometimes 

 wake up in the middle of the night and think of what 

 he would have won over Holocaust, and he has a 

 right to. His judgment was so right in thinking he 

 had put me on to a good thing. M. de Bremond was 

 not sorry that he had put me up although it was a 

 disastrous start in his colours. 



I had at one time one or two good pictures of the 

 principal horses in that Derby parading round the 

 paddock before the race, but I put them away some 



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