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was of course very broadly hinted afterwards ; at 

 anyrate, it speedily had the effect of causing the new 

 rule to be added, by which no jockey is allowed to 

 weigh with a whip, or any substitute for one. 



In the autumn of that year. Admiral Harcourt, in 

 my presence, related to my father how he had called 

 on his friend, Lord Abingdon, on his return from the 

 Derby, and after some little conversation exclaimed — 



" I have just won the Derby ! are you not going 

 to congratulate me ? " 



" Oh ! is it a subject of congratulation ? " replied 

 Lord Abingdon, " then I do so heartily ! " 



" What is fame ? an expression of terms eulogistic, 

 The making a hero, by popular cry ! 

 It may last but a day, that is characteristic ! 



Then the man is forgot, who was praised to the sky." 



Though " The Flying Dutchman " was a very resolute 

 horse, he was actually ridden occasionally in his gallops 

 by the daughter of Mr. Henry Thompson, who afterwards 

 married Colonel Soames Jenyns, the chief of the 13th 

 Light Dragoons (now the 13 th Hussars). She was the 

 finest horsewoman of the day, and many of her feats were 

 long remembered in her native county. Very frequently 

 she used to come out hunting on thoroughbred two-year- 

 olds, and it was quite a lesson to watch the way she 

 handled them, and soothed their impetuosity, regardless of 

 the plunges that the excitement of the hunting-field 

 caused them to make. Whenever she did ride a 

 hunter that knew its business, no one could go straighter 

 or harder. Her daughter. Miss Jenyns, now hunting in 

 Cheshire, inherits her mother's talent to the full, and for 

 elegance of seat, skill, and daring, is unsurpassed. 



