BUCKSTONE AND TIM WHIFFLER 55 



Another of my visits to Royal Ascot was made 

 memorable to me by the dead heat for the Cup 

 by Buckstone and Tim Whiffler. The excitement 

 of the public at this event was, perhaps, greater 

 than when the ' Colt by Defence ' won the Emperor's 

 Vase. The race was very severe, and it was 

 generally thought that an arrangement would be 

 made to divide the stakes, as the course then was 

 nearly three miles and a half, but as the principal 

 portion was the historic Gold Cup, that alternative 

 was impossible. I thought it would be more interest- 

 ing to see the struggle from the bend, and thus 

 form a better opinion of the relative merits after 

 they had done their three miles. The deciding 

 heat was a race from end to end, and it bade fair 

 to repeat the former result — another dead heat. 

 When they passed me there was not a pin to choose 

 between them. Whilst I hurried up the course 

 behind them it was impossible, a hundred yards 

 off, to say which had won. Tim Whiffler, how- 

 ever, was beaten by a length. The latter had been 

 much fancied, as he had won the Chester Cup, 

 and Buckstone had acquitted himself handsomely 

 during the spring. This time I did not ride all the 

 way to Ascot and back, as it was too much both for 

 myself and 'conveyance,' who was left comfortably 

 in the stable. 



