LONG DELAY AT POST 



great deal more than five thousand." As a matter of 

 fact I should have been rich for life. 



But to deal with the race : we went down to the post 

 and it will be remembered there was a fifty-minutes' 

 delay, during which of course Codoman was carrying 

 8-10 continuously, whereas Berrill, a four-year-old, 

 had only 7-9. When we got off at last, after that weary 

 time with my chance getting less and less, I could see 

 that Berrill had the lot of us easily beaten ; in fact he 

 had only to win in any way he liked. However, he 

 went all over the course or he could have won by 

 twenty lengths instead of the four which if I remember 

 rightly the judge placed him in front of me. There 

 was no question of hard luck in the incidents of the 

 race : Berrill was an absolute certainty as it proved. 

 I have no hesitation in repeating that he could have 

 won the Cesarewitch easily. Codoman had run a good 

 horse but we couldn't reckon on one like the winner. 

 As it was I was not at all a loser over the race, for like 

 a great many I had netted a good sum on balance 

 through getting 8 to 1, 7 to 1 and other odds to big 

 mounts for a place, which was something to be 

 grateful for. 



I am told that after the race I abused Thompson 

 who rode Berrill. I had never seen him before, and I 

 have never done so since, but I can state with all due 

 regard to truth that I never uttered a word to him in 

 my life. The good thing hadn't come off ; that's all. 

 Well there was the usual talk about my having done 

 this, that and the other, but apart from natural dis- 

 appointment at not winning an important event, I 

 looked upon it quite as an ordinary race in the natural 

 excitement of others which were to follow in the next 

 two racing days at Newmarket. There had been 

 twenty-four runners and M. Ephrussi, I am sure, 



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