1 74 ^'^^k and Scarlet, 



with Venison's in Royal Ravenhill, whose dark brown 

 hunters and coachers make dealers prick up their ears. 

 Filho was full sixteen hands, and as good as he was 

 good-looking. He failed in his great match with Sir 

 Joshua owing to his rearing suddenly at the post, and 

 losing some lengths which he never could quite make 

 up. They offered to run it over again for twice the 

 sum, but the Sir Joshua party w^ould not have it. 

 Jackson, who had been rather ill-used in not having 

 the mount, told Goodisson on the first opportunity, in 

 rather a caustic strain, that he was afraid of his horse, 

 and Tom calmly responded that he did not like the 

 job. Tom was a very fine rider, and so abstemious 

 that he would trudge all day with his gun to bag a 

 lark, and eat nothing else for dinner. He rode rather 

 too long, and on one occasion his horse flung him at 

 the post, and when he gathered himself up he simply 

 said — " There s for you ! that's the grand jockey, Tom 

 Goodisson : if it had been a horsedealer s cad, hed never 

 have been flung that way I' and on he got again. ArnuU 

 rode Sir Joshua in his match, and as Marshall (who 

 once interpreted "full canonicals" to mean "your 

 hood and body clothes" when an Oxonian went to sit 

 to him) kept him nearly a whole day in full costume 

 on a saddle, " niggling away all the time at one eye," 

 he could hardly be got to face an easel again. 



H hazard Haphazard himself was a gay nag- 

 ap azar . j^^j^jj^g horse, with a low back and very 

 fine action, but never a great favourite with, nor a 

 great catch for, Lord Lowther. Billy Pierse thought 

 that he had hardly been on a truer four-mile horse 

 than him and Agonistes, both of the same age, and 

 both of them by Sir Peter, and companions in the 

 Raby stable. His finest race on Haphazard was 

 against Marcia and Buckle, for the Great Subscription 

 Plate at York, when he won half a head, though many 

 thought it a wrong decision, and Marcia receiving 

 3lbs. avenged herself on Agonistes, over the same 



