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its steep sides, then jump the water at the bottom, 

 and scramble up the other side. It had often been dis- 

 cussed whether this could not be flown, and after a good 

 inspection of it I marked a place in my own mind where 

 it seemed possible to do so. The next time that we 

 found at Hutton Thorns, and ran in that direction, I 

 galloped straight for this place, being mounted on a mag- 

 nificent four -year -old, " Eedbourne," who had run the 

 previous year in " Hermit's " Derby. He was out of 

 " Eepentance," who was also dam of " Wolesley," who run 

 a dead heat with " Lozenge " for the Cambridgeshire ; and 

 of " Eemorse," who subsequently ran third for the Derby, 

 for Lord Falmouth, as the " Macaroni-Eepentance " colt, 



" Eedbourne " was a beautiful jumper and a very bold 

 horse, and I knew he would do his best. As I came 

 slanting down from the right hand, Eobinson appeared 

 from the left, also making for the identical same spot, and 

 I soon saw he was also going to have a try at it. He 

 was riding a very fine chestnut that he had bought at 

 Newmarket the autumn before, and as he was about fifty 

 yards ahead of me when we were straightened for the 

 jump, he had the first attempt at it. His horse just got 

 over, and the moment after " Eedbourne " was safely over 

 also, and then for the first time, turning his head, Eobin- 

 son found he was not alone. He told me that he also 

 had been to look for a place where he might fly it, and 

 had chosen the same place as I had done, but he had 

 never observed that I was also making for it. It was 

 rather a quaint coincidence that we should have both had 

 the same impulse on the same day, unknown to each other, 

 for I have never heard of it being jumped at the same 

 place, either before or since. 



