100 to 12 against ; Doncaster Welter 03), Lumberer, 100 to 8 against. 

 Second day :— Milton Stakes (7), Newmarket, 5 tD 4 on ; St. Leger (8), 

 Throstle, 50 to 1 against. Third day :— Juvenile Selling (10), Queen 

 Saraband, 9 to 4 against ; Kous Plate (6), Matabele, 100 to 30 against ; 

 Portland Plate (15). Grey Leg, 8 to 1 against ; Corporation Selling (10), 

 St. Ignatius, 11 to 8 against. On the fourth day he did not win, but he 

 was second in the Cup on Portland with 100 to 6 against. Th-re were 

 twenty-six races in the four days, and Cannon rode in them all except 

 the Fitzwilliam Stakes, Rufford Plate, Cleveland Plate, Bradgate Park 

 Plate, and Prince of Wales Nursery, with a result of ten wins, four ; 

 seconds, two thirds, which left only five " duck eggs " to his debit ; 

 besides which he rode a dead heat for the Tattersall's Stakes on The 

 Brook, the decider being won by Finlay on Florendean. As is seen be 

 won all ihe principal events except the Park Hill, the Stakes and the Cup, 

 in which latter he was second, and many of his mounts were outsiders, 

 while Throstle created the most remarkable surprise perhaps ever re- 

 corded in the Leger. The twenty-one races which he rode covered exactly 

 twenty-two miles and a half, and those who " followed" this able and 

 popular jockey by putting one sovereign at s. p. to win on each of his 

 mounts netted exactly i'98 9s. 2d., i.e., won £109 93. 2d. and lost £11, 

 a result which came to the share of few others, for never was there 

 a more disastrous meeting for backers than was the one under 

 reference. If, therefore, this riding of Morny Cannon's has not 

 established a record among "jockeys' mounts," I am very much mistaken. 

 Even at a small meeting it would have been marvellous, not to speak 

 of the Doncaster September, which I maintain is the mcst important 

 we have in the calendar. So little was thought of Throstle's chance 

 that it was intended that she should be used as a pacemaker for 

 Matchbox, but at the last moment Cannon requested to be allowed to 

 lide the mare as he liked, hence the result. His riding in some of the 

 other races was also remarkably brilliant, particularly on Queen 

 Saraband and Grey Leg. 



THE CUKRAGH. 

 Chapter XH. 



The Beasleys— Corrections pp. 203, 205, 206.— At page 203 the 

 rotation of the brothers Beasley is given wrong — they came as 

 follows :~Tom, John, Harry, James, and Willy. And two pages on I 

 should have said that the Stand House is a little short of three miles, 

 instead of nearly four, from Eyrefield House. Again, Charley was old 

 Canavan's name, and not Davy ; while by a printer's mistake, in not 

 putting a comma after " off" in the last line of p. 206, it would appear 

 that the fox covert was not on the Curragh, which it is, and close to 

 the railway on the opposite side from the Stand House. 



Eclipse. — At page 211 is made a mistake about Eclipse which I 



