92 The Life of Fred Archer 
race Mr. Baltazzi said to him : " Why are you always so cool ? 
I am always like this." Maidment, a born mimic, was not 
content with imitating his foreign employer's accent ; you 
could see the Hungarian rise up before you with his trembling 
hands on the horse's reins. 
" But I," said Maidment, " am jiist the same in the Derby 
as when I am riding in trials." Maidment added that Mr. 
Baltazzi on first seeing him ride exclaimed excitedly : " You 
shall ride for me ! " 
At the Epsom Summer Meeting, Archer took his first great 
two-year-old race, when Ladylove won the Woodcote Stakes. 
At the three Newmarket meetings he won thirteen races, 
the majority being for Lord Falmouth and the principal one 
the Clearwell Stakes on the Repentance colt, while for both the 
Cesarewitch and the Criterion he was second. In the latter 
instance, Lord Falmouth won with Garterly Bell ; but Lady- 
love, ridden by Archer, carried the proper colours. 
Custance says, in his " Riding Recollections and Turf 
Stories " : 
" Lord Lonsdale was a nobleman who raced purely for the 
sport. He rarely betted, and only had a ' pony ' or a ' fifty ' 
on a horse of his own in a big race to make presents with in 
case he won. His lordship was very fond of seeing his own 
colours when he came to Newmarket, and I well remember his 
making both Captain Machell and J. Cannon, who trained for 
him, very much annoyed because he would enter King Lud, 
whom they were specially training for the Alexandra Plate, 
in the Ditch Mile Handicap at the Newmarket Meeting of 
1874. 
" When the weights came out. King Lud was allotted 
8 stone 10 lb. Andred, belonging to Lord Falmouth and ridden 
by Archer, had earned a penalty, bringing his weight up to 
9 stone 3 lb. There were ten runners, and King Lud, who was 
always rather a gross colt, looked more like a mare in foal than 
a horse going to run. The layers offered long odds against 
