202 The Life of Fred Archer 
with Galliard half a length behind him. To this day some, 
who were very much less well placed than Judge Clarke, 
assert that the second won. Many people also thought that 
Archer rode a bad race, but I had more money on Galliard than 
I ever had on a horse in the Derby before, and I am quite satis- 
fied that, owing to his heavy shoulders, Galliard would not 
act down hill, and so lost too much ground ever to make it up." 
The discussion as to whether or not GalUard ought to have 
won at Epsom was renewed when at Ascot the colt cantered 
away from Ossian in the Prince of Wales's Stakes, and the next 
day, in the Ascot Derby, Ossian cantered away from St. Blaise. 
Indeed, poor Archer seems to have caused as much dissatis- 
faction by winning the St. Leger on Dutch Oven as he did by 
losing the Derby on GaUiard. The owner of both his mounts 
was equally satisfied in both instances, and that, after all, was 
the chief thing. 
Lord Falmouth, whatever he may have thought in the heat 
of the moment, certainly did not ultimately beheve that 
Archer had not tried on Galliard, and as proof of it the letter 
he wrote to Mrs. Coleman, Archer's sister, after the jockey had 
shot himself, may here be quoted : — 
