TOD SLOAN 



M. Ephrussi came over to Newmarket for Cesarewitch 

 week and on the Wednesday, after the big race, which 

 beyond doubt Berrill should have won — and in my 

 opinion could have done so easily — I decided not to 

 pursue the chance of riding Berrill. 



M. Ephrussi, I believe, had consulted someone as 

 to what would be an adequate present to give me for 

 winning the French race. He had packed up a big 

 parcel of money over that event. During the after- 

 noon he handed me a cheque for seven hundred pounds, 

 for which I was grateful. I thought him extremely 

 liberal and there and then I said, " I want you, 

 M. Ephrussi, to send Codoman over for the Cambridge- 

 shire, and I'll win it for you provided you let me have 

 charge of the horse for a week before the race. Let 

 the head lad bring him over and instruct him that I am 

 to have absolute responsibility for him. I will take 

 him to George Chaloner's place and will get a real good 

 horse to gallop him with. You can bet what you like 

 on his chance." 



He discussed it all, and after a bit wrote a telegram 

 to Mr Carter with the instructions I so much desired, 

 and the horse was expected to arrive on the following 

 Monday or Tuesday. 



Then I began to think over the chances of all the 

 others in the race and I confess that I was terribly 

 afraid of Berrill, who only had to give his proper 

 running to be a great danger ; in fact I had an idea 

 then and afterwards that he might have won the 

 double, penalty and all, but he was fiddled about by 

 curious riding in the Cesarewitch and I thought it just 

 possible that he might turn cunning in consequence. 



Before Codoman arrived I had persuaded Mr George 

 Edwardes to let me have Santoi, then a three-year-old, 

 who had not shown to any great advantage up to then. 



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