OUR COMMISSION ON THE GOODWOOD STAKES. = 253 
named the amount and my price, and in the course of the 
same day was informed by my worthy commissioner, “ Rather 
than you shall not be on, Mr. Day, I will lay you the money 
myself.” A similar thing occurred with the same horse and 
the same person for the Goodwood Cup. The horse was first 
favourite before a shilling of my commission was executed. 
But I changed the face of things by informing this worthy on 
the night before the race: “I shall not run the horse here in 
this case ; I shall keep him for the St. Leger.” And again it 
was found my money could be speedily put on for me at my 
own price. 
Now, in both these cases, it cannot be for a moment doubted 
that the money had been actually put on the horse, but the 
particulars had not been handed in to the principal; and so 
long as the horse kept well, it was never intended that they 
should be. On the other hand, had the animal been taken ill and 
died, the account, circumstantially stating how every shilling 
had been laid out, would as assuredly have been sent in to 
me. In sum, had it not been for my firmness, I should have 
seen the horse win both races without a guinea on him in 
either of them. Nor would the pecuniary loss have been all ; 
my friends would have blamed me for selfishly keeping all the 
money to myself, and no statement to the contrary, though 
true in every particular, would have been accepted. As it 
turned out, people thought that in both cases I had received 
double the odds I had given them. 
One other more recent instance in respect to the Goodwood 
Stakes must suffice. Our commissioner at the time was re- 
quested to back a horse for that race for £1,000 immediately 
after the publication of the weights. Between this period 
and the declaration of minor forfeits there was a great deal 
of betting, our horse standing at 50 to 1, On the latter 
