The Life of Fred Archer 91 
desperately contested finish Archer was so pressed to reach 
the weight that he rode without his shirt." 
Archer's first appearance in 1874 was in the green jacket 
of Prince Batthyany at Lincoln, when he won the Brocklesby 
Stakes on Nightstar, and the next day achieved a far more 
important success by riding for Mr. Swindell — sometimes 
named " Lord Freddy " — and Mat Dawson the handsome 
chesnut son of Thormanby, Tomahawk, in the Lincolnshire 
Handicap, and an immense sum was won thereby by Freddy 
Swindell and the astute division who obeyed his suggestions 
and followed his clever manipulations. 
Mat was remarkably sanguine as to the success of Toma- 
hawk, and as with ruddy and beaming face he saddled his 
well-prepared pet, whose burnished coat even so early in the 
season exhibited manifest signs of the perfection of the trainer's 
art, he quietly remarked to a well-known patron of the Heath 
House celebrated stable : "It will take a good one to beat him 
to-day \^ith only 6 stone 4 lb. on his back. In fact, unless 
there's something more than the ordinary, this year's Derby 
wUl be his." 
Mat's instructions to Archer were : " Get well away, hold 
a good place, don't get shut in, and ride him tenderly." 
Tenderly Archer did ride him, for his horse won with con- 
summate ease in front of thirty-four others, and afterwards 
Tomahawk saw a short price for the Blue Riband of the Turf. 
He was, however, a difficult horse to train, not over and above 
a genuine stayer, and George Frederick, the winner, though 
coarse and heavy-looking, was by far and away in a superior 
class to the Lincoln Handicap winner. 
Early in 1874 two Hungarian gentlemen, Messrs. Alexander 
and Hector Baltazzi, were forming a stud of racehorses in 
England. Mr. Alexander Baltazzi succeeded in winning the 
Derby of 1876 with Kisber. Hector Baltazzi, who raced under 
the name of Mr. Bruce, was a gentleman rider of some repute. 
Maidment, who won the Derby on Kisber, said that before the 
