1 1 6 Silk and Scarlet. 



covered the shock which his prospects received when 

 his good master the Duke of Orleans was killed from 

 his carriage, and he found himself thrown out of his 

 place and pensionless. His greatest hit for the Duke 

 was picking up Beggarman out of the Goodwood 

 stable, as a 500/. cull, and training him to win the 

 Goodwood Cup next year. The Duke of Beaufort 

 employed him to the last, and so did General Peel, 

 who had procured him his place with the Duke of 

 Orleans, and scarcely ever liked to miss his fine judg- 

 ment in a trial. At times his natural high courage in 

 a race sadly required steadying, but it stood him in 

 rare stead when he got locked in with a mass of horses, 

 and scarcely a man alive could see an opening, much 

 less make one for himself. Harry Edwards rode his 

 first race at Newmarket on Rabbit, against Robinson 

 on Antonia, 6st. 7lbs. each, Ditch-in. He set to very 

 high, and his great length of arm gave him immense 

 leverage, and when he gave a horse one of his jobs, he 

 seemed almost to carry him. This wonderful power 

 was especially apparent in Don John's last race ; when 

 he was opposed to Conolly and Alemdar. There 

 was a long consultation between Lord Chesterfield and 

 John Scott in the Four Mile Stables as to whether he 

 could start, and Harry's veterinary lore was finally 

 invoked. Pulling off his white kid gloves, he passed 

 his hand down his back sinews, and replied, " He^ll 

 pull through^ and only just." The result proved that 

 he had not drawn his bow at a venture. He could 

 hardly keep him on his legs from the Duke's Stand, 

 and then both his back sinews went so completely, 

 that they were nearly an hour getting him home to 

 Neale's stables. 



Old John Day. Perhaps the greatest triumph that 



John Day, that Hampshire patriarch, 



ever had, was winning the Oaks on Oxygen for his 



good old master, the late Duke of Grafton. Every 



udge of riding who saw it, vowed that he ought to 



