STEEPLECHASING WITHOUT TEARS. 



get to the winning post in his best time. This 

 being so, in his judgment it was obviously best to 

 let him continue indefinitely to gallop along in 

 front, where he would run no risks of being brought 

 down by horses falling in front of him. As some 

 of the most experienced of racing men have since 

 told me, his judgment of pace was absolutely 

 correct, for no one tried to get in front of him, for 

 all felt that the pace was fast enough, nor did 

 they lay out of their ground (hang back) since they 

 could not feel that Anthony was making the pace 

 too fast. He deliberately rode a " waiting race in 

 front " — one of the hardest things to do in racing. 



You will have read the published account of the 

 race, and I am not going to repeat it. I only say 

 that, at the last turn, with only four or five fences 

 to jump, all the runners had been tailed off except 

 Reynoldstown, who was a couple of lengths behind 

 him, and it was then that their duel was fought. 

 Reynoldstown's rider forced him up to challenge 

 Anthony, and to the astonishment of everybody, 

 Davey Jones prevailed. In the course of this 

 effort, Reynoldstown made a very bad mistake 

 at the fence near the turning, shooting his rider, 

 Walwyn, on to his neck as he landed. Though 

 Walwyn made a wonderful recovery, getting back 

 into the saddle, this gave Anthony a lead of five 

 lengths, with Davey Jones still going " on the bit," 

 with ease to himself. You will have read the rest. 



It was only just before the last fence, when both 



71 



