i68 The Life of Fred Archer 
to have beaten you, and that he threw away the race by looking 
round to see what you were doing, instead of sitting down and 
riding his horse." 
" Well," replied Archer, " it was not wise of him to turn 
round, perhaps, but you must remember this : I had to ride 
my horse with one hand that day. I hadn't long begun to 
ride again, and I couldn't use one arm at all. If I had been 
all right and fit to finish, and if I had had the use of both 
arms, I should have won very much easier, so it isn't safe to 
judge by the race for the Derby." 
It is true that Robert the Devil turned the tables on Bend 
Or in the St. Leger, but that was a terrible day, for rain fell 
in torrents, and the jockeys on returning were allowed to weigh 
in at 2 lb., overweight. 
What kind of a horse Bend Or was is shown by the fact 
that he won the City and Suburban with 9 stone, giving Foxhall 
2 stone 6 lb., and the American horse later won both the 
Cesarewitch and the Cambridgeshire, besides the Grand Prix 
de Paris. 
Mr. Pierre Lorillard, a millionaire tobacco merchant, sent 
Iroquois and other yearlings over to this country in 1879, accom- 
panied by their trainer, Jacob Pincus. F. Grey Griswold was 
in England, looking after things for Mr. Lorillard at the time 
when Archer rode Iroquois, and saw a good deal of the great 
jockey. He gave his impressions of him to an American inter- 
viewer after Archer's death, as did Sir Roderick Cameron, a 
well-known patron of sport, widely celebrated in America 
as the importer of Leamington, the famous sire of Iroquois. 
This was really the first of the numerous American invasions. 
As Mr. James R. Keene also sent some horses over, American 
methods — the very early morning gallops and the time test — 
soon became common here. 
Iroquois was not fit when Peregrine beat him in a trot in 
the Two Thousand Guineas, and the latter colt was made a 
strong favourite for the Derby. One person who did not 
