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improved enormously. He had broadened and was 

 stronger — looking beyond the usual development when 

 I saw him in the Two Thousand, and I knew he had 

 gone on in the right way up to Doncaster. 



There was only one thing for it, to try and devise 

 some plan that should do in the favourite — of course 

 I mean something that came within the rules of racing. 

 I arranged with Martin to stay with me the night be- 

 fore the race so that I might tell him what I thought. 

 My plan, to which he listened very carefully, was for 

 Disguise to lay alongside of Flying Fox to the turn for 

 home. Martin was to " cluck " to his horse very 

 frequently, not to shake him up but just to keep him 

 going by making a noise with the tongue against the 

 roof of the mouth as loud as he could. " Keep him 

 head and head, Skeets," I said, "and after the turn if 

 I holler out to you ' Go on,' then pull out to the right 

 and let me through on Caiman ; but if I shout to you 

 ' Pull out,' you'll know I'm beaten and you must do 

 what you can." 



We had a very good start and Martin on Disguise II. 

 did exactly what had been arranged. You could 

 have heard his " clucking " yards away. Every time 

 he let out the sound Flying Fox would jump yards, 

 pulling Morny's arms out of their sockets. I can tell 

 you he was furious during the race and he didn't forget 

 to tell Martin so after it was all over. Well, we got 

 near the turn and rounded it with Caiman going 

 easily. As arranged I shouted, "Go on, Skeets I " 

 But Martin was an actor who had forgotten his cue. 

 Instead of pulling out he kept on, and I was on his heels 

 instead of getting the opening to keep Cannon on the 

 rails. Of course any chance of pulling off the un- 

 expected was at an end. I had to go on the outside 

 and although I just headed the big horse two hundred 



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