2 34 The Course, the Camp, the Chase 



the second horse, and was now close at his quarters. 

 Both jockeys were riding their hardest, and both horses 

 were responding in the gamest fashion. Fifty yards from 

 home there is a slight ascent, and the moment they 

 reached it " Belmont " had his head in front, and won by 

 a neck ; " Turpin " being second, and " Gentle Annie " a 

 bad third. Considering the pace at which the early part of 

 the race was run, and the distance that " Belmout " had to 

 make up, it was truly a marvellous performance, and well 

 worthy his high lineage, " by ' Cambuslaug ' — ' Geraldine ' 

 by ' Solon ' — ' Gramachree,' the own sister to ' Faugh a 

 Ballagh ' and ' Irish Birdcatcher.' " 



" Belmont " and " Camllo," my two winners that day, 

 were both small horses, as far as height goes, for neither 

 of them were quite 15.1 J, but they were lengthy and 

 very muscular : the old proverb is very right, " it is 

 symmetry and action that carry weight." 



Another winner of a big four miles steeplechase that 

 I have trained was " Monkshood," by " Uncas " out of 

 the "Abbess," by "Confessor." He had a rather clubby 

 near fore-foot, and I bought him at Tattersall's at a 

 reasonable price in consequence. In consequence of ill 

 health I was unable to train him at first, so Tom Cannon 

 kindly took him in at Danebury, and when he made his 

 debut at Sandown Park he ran second, being beaten half a 

 length by " Chancellor," with " Johnny Longtail " three 

 lengths behind, who were afterwards third and fourth 

 for the Liverpool Grand National. We then put him 

 by until the next season, when 1 was able to attend 

 to him myself, and, ridden by Eoddy Owen, he won 

 the Grand National Hunters' Eace — run that year at 

 Derby — by ten lengths. When Owen was changing 



