100 The Life of Fred Archer 
At all the principal meetings of the year, except Ascot, he had 
a good total of winners, but at the Royal Heath he was singu- 
larly unlucky, as he rode thirteen losers right off the reel, and 
scored during the whole meeting only one solitary win upon 
Ladylove for the Three- Year-Old Triennial, 
Among his chief successes, in addition to the above named, 
which helped to make his total one of celebrity in 1875, we have 
mentioned the One Thousand Guineas. Much of Archer's 
success he no doubt owed to Lord Falmouth, but it must not 
be forgotten that the latter always esteemed Archer very 
highly, and it is to Archer's credit that he gained and kept the 
friendship of that chivalrous and high-minded nobleman. 
Lord Falmouth's " I believe Archer " became an article in the 
creed of every racing man. Fred Archer always went down to 
Cheltenham in the winter for the hunting, though he often 
spent some of the season elsewhere, as, for instance, at Lord 
Wilton's. 
Fred Webb had come to Mathew Dawson's about a year 
later than Archer, who was the younger of the two men. These 
great rivals were also the greatest of friends, and Webb often 
came home with Fred, and was well known round Andovers- 
ford. 
Harry Morgan was at that time a brilliant lightweight in 
the stable, and he said, when talking in 1914 about Archer, 
that once when Fred was away for some time in Cheltenham 
he occupied his rooms. They were very nice ones, with lots of 
photographs about. When Archer came back, Morgan moved 
out and slept at the Golden Hart. 
" Webb and Archer," he said, " were very quiet men in 
their ways, and didn't talk much. Archer would come round 
and have a couple of games of billiards in the room upstairs 
at the Rutland Arms and wouldn't say much. He was usually 
home about ten. He had a temper, though, and no mistake. 
You want to know what he got into tempers about ? Abotd 
getting beaten in races ! He couldn't stand that. Really, the 
