158 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



reversed the style of running in the dead 

 heat, the big horse would outstride the little 

 one, despite all that Patrick Conolly could 

 do. Both the riders in this last memorable 

 struggle have gone to their graves within a 

 few years of each other. Like the ironcast 

 Captain Becher, Bill Scott met with some 

 severe accidents during his long career. He 

 got his collar-bone broken when Epirus fell 

 in the St. Leger of 1837 (which he would 

 certainly have won), and received a severe 

 contusion out hunting in the winter of 1843, 

 which prevented his riding another race for 

 some time. He had never the good luck, like 

 Macdonald in 1840, to be presented with a 

 whip by Royalty ; but along with his brother 

 John he had the honour of an interview with 

 Her Majesty, when, accompanied by Prince 

 Albert, she rode over, on the Monday before 

 the Epsom meeting of 1843, from Esher to 

 Leatherhead, to interview Cotherstone; and 

 he was often heard jocularly to remark in 

 connection with that event, that had she only 

 known what he and Cotherstone were going 

 to do on the next Wednesday she would 

 have made them both Baronets on the spot. 



