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EACING EEMINISCENCBS

VOL. II.

rniXTKD BY

erOTTlS^OODE AND CO., \EW-.STREET SQUARE

LONDON

RACING REMINISCENCES

AND

EXPEEIENCES OF THE TUEF

BY

SIE GEOEGE CHETWYND, BAET,

IN TWO VOLUMES— VOL. IL

SECOND EDITION

LONDON
LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO.

AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16'»' STREET
1891

All ri-jhti reserted

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME
EXPERIENCES OF THE TUBE

CHAPTER

I. Hints to Backers and Young Owners .... 3

IT. Trying Horses 47

III. Eace-Goers and the Eing 58

IV. Handicapping 71

V. On Breeding and Training 83

VI. The Eules of Eacing 121

VII. The Action against Lord Durham 142

APPENDIX 151

II.

EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

CHAPTEE I

HINTS TO BACKEKS AND YOUNG OWNERS

That the practice of betting is in many ways mis-
chievous and calculated to do harm is a truism w^hicli
need not be disputed ; but men always have betted,
and doubtless always will bet, and it would be affec-
tation and senseless prudery to exclude the subject
from a book on the Turf. Newspapers condemn the
custom in one column and publish the latest odds in
the next ; solemn dignitaries denounce it and sit down
to play whist for sixpenny points, which is practi-
cally very much the same thing. I have therefore
thought it well to give here some of the results of
my experience and observation of what is called the
' Turf Market.' If the young lover of racing is not
inclined to bet, it is, no doubt, well for him to avoid it ;
if he is, he may derive matter for reflection from the
remarks of one who has habitually taken the odds,
and on occasions laid them, for many years past.

Mr. Chaplin one day at York, in my hearing,
offered to bet Lord Falmouth from 500^. up to any
amount that Hermit became the sire of a winner
of the Derby before Kingcraft did. ' Bet about it ?
No, I don't wish to bet,' was Lord Falmouth's reply :

4 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

' when you are trying to impress your audience in
the House of Commons with your views on a certain
subject, you don't bet with them about it ! ' ' No,'
said Mr. ChapHn, ' but I should hke to ! ' After all,
there is much to be said for a man who has the
courage of his opinions. There is a ring of sincerity
in a man's offer to back his skill or judgment on the
merits of a horse or anything else, and there are
many excuses to be made for him, provided that
he acts with due moderation. I set my face against
heavy gambling. Every day we have proofs of the
ruin it leads to, but it is possible to be severe to the
limits of priggishness and prudery. Even so grave
a journal as the ' Spectator ' has had a word to say
in semi-defence of what may be described in the
jargon of the day as ' an occasional flutter,' for a
number not very long since contained the following
remarks : — ' In games of chance you do learn to
realise practically what it means in life to have the
odds against you, as men so often must have them
against them in much more serious matters, and
matters where it is far less possible to calculate
the amount of the odds against them. You might
learn, too, and often do learn, how much piquancy is
given to otherwise very stupid occupations by the
uncertainty of the issue. And you certainly get
a very good opportunity of practising equanimity in
small reverses and magnanimity in small successes.
If a game be made more cheerful by a little of the
excitement of pure chance as to who will be the
gainers and who the losers, as games have been
made and will be made more cheerful as lons^ as
human nature and youth remain what they are, we

GAMBLING 5

can see no more harm in losing small sums for
such a purpose than in losing them for the purposes
of a cooling drink in summer or a hot drink in
winter. But the difference between gambling and
almost every other amusement is that it combines no
advantagfe of a hio^her order with the advanta^-e of
excitement. It does not involve exercise ; it does not
teach anything, unless it be a little coolness and self-
control ; it does not cultivate the sense of beauty,
like gazing at beautiful scenes ; it does not sustain
the body ; and, unless very moderately indulged in,
instead of refreshino- and restorinsf, it rather heats

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and exhausts the mind.'

Another writer has said, ' Gambling is not
gambling when you gamble within your means,' and
if this be so gambling is doubtless to be condemned ;
but, as just observed, against such gambling I
earnestly warn young readers, for they will have seen
in many places in this book how very often apparent
certainties were beaten for one of a hundred different
reasons.

If a young man came to me and asked me if I
would advise him to go on the Turf, I should reply,
without a moment's hesitation, ' l^o ; ' believing that
even if he was very well off, and if he hardly ever
made a bet, and so had little experience of the vexa-
tions of losing, he would be spared much anno3^ance.
His temper would not be improved by the practice
of ' going racing,' and he would avoid the thousands
of petty jealousies, quarrels, pretended friendships,
false congratulations, the ups and downs, the mortifi-
cation of being beaten by a head, the accidents — all
of which weigh down the scale too heavily on one

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side ; whilst the other contains a few victories,
though truly they are pleasant enough when they
come !

If, however, my advice were asked on the sub-
ject of forming a stud by some one who was bent
on devoting himself to the sport, I should strongly
recommend the purchase of well-bred fillies as year-
lings. They might or might not win races, but if
they turned out worthless as racehorses they would be
valuable to breed from, if judiciously mated. I should
also advise the purchase of a few well-bred young
mares in foal, so that a beginning might be speedily
made without having to wait several years. Eighty
per cent, of our best racehorses have been bred
in private studs, although such horses as Doncaster,
Galopin, Sefton, Merry Hampton, and Wenlock
were bought at public auction. As regards the
purchase of yearlings, the risks and chances are
increased by the fact that while one is never certain
that the best-looking animals will race, it is exceed-
ingly difficult to make sure that the youngster is of
a promising sort. Gentlemen who breed for sale
must fatten their yearlings to please the eye of the
public when they are led into the Eing, and, what
is of more importance to them, to hide their defects.
Nothing is more common for men who have pur-
chased youngsters for high prices — animals that have
looked symmetrical enough till the breaking tackle
has been put on them, and they have been put into
work — to find, when the fat has been sweated off
them, that a melancholy alteration has been wrought
in a few weeks. They now discover that the expen-
sive yearling has a ewe neck, is slack in the ribs,

BUYING HORSES 7

long in tlip. back, or has some other too obvious
fault that had not been apparent when he was lusty
and gross.

Before buying a yearling he ought to be most
carefully examined, special attention being paid to
see whether he stands perfectly true, and that he
is not back at the knees — a fatal fault in any horse.
Care should be taken to ascertain that his feet are of
good size (one contracted foot being a serious defect),
that he has good shoulders and arms, clean limbs
and hocks, and that he is well ribbed up. Never
buy a horse with a mare's head ! Some years ago I
and a friend gave 2,600 guineas for Goldsmith, a son
of Hermit and Crucible. We asked Mr. Mannington,
the well-known veterinary surgeon, to look the horse
over, with the result that he told us he could find no
fault in him except that he ' had a mare's head.' In
spite of this we bought him, but our swan proved to
be a goose — the horse turned out a very moderate
five-furlong plater. It is always best to purchase
animals that have running blood in them on their
dam's side, and it is dangerous to give high prices
for animals out of untried mares. A purchaser
ought always to make up his mind about what sum
he thinks an animal is worth, and not to be carried
away in bidding, in spite of the eloquence of Mr.
Tattersall and the subdued admiration of the by-
standers ; and he ought never to give an unlimited
commission to buy any animal. Years ago a brood
mare, Lady Bothwell was her name I believe, was
sent to Tattersall's in London to be sold. Two
gentlemen, one of them the late Sir Eichard Sutton,
instructed their representatives to buy her, each

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believing slie would go for about 500/. l^o limit
was given, the consequence of which was that the
mare was knocked down to Sir E. Sutton for about
2,500 guineas, or five times her value. ^

Unless your yearlings are very well bred and
particularly good-looking, avoid entering them in too
many races. It is a great annoyance to find a two-
year-old worthless when tried, and to remember that
you have to pay forfeit in thirty or forty engage-
ments. If, however, you make up your mind to
engage a yearling heavily, enter it in all the best
races. A curious omission in the way of entering
was made by the owner of the beautiful Signorina,
who had been put in the big two-year-old races,
the One Thousand and Oaks, but not in either the
Two Thousand or Derby, although it is undoubtedly
discouraging for an owner of a promising filly to
know that in the last thirty-two years the latter race
had only been won twice by fillies, Blink Bonny and
Shotover, and as for the latter mare she was by no
means up to the standard form of a Derby winner,
but the horses she had to compete against were a
very moderate lot, and the favourite was wretchedly
ridden.

I recommend the beginner to pay the greatest
attention to public form. It is not always trust-
worthy— very far from it — but it is twenty times more
so than private trials. Over and over again I have
been told of the marvellous prowess exhibited by
voungsters at home. It is said that they can ' climb
trees ' and do everything but talk ; but as a rule,
when they make their first appearance in public
their number is taken down by a tried pubhc per-

DO NOT PLUNGE 9"

former. What puzzles the student of private and
pubhc form, and leads to innumerable contradictory
results, is the fact that some animals do their best at
home in trials, but do not run up to their form out,
owing to nervousness, ill-temper, or cowardice ; whilst
others do not exert themselves in private trials, but
are excited, and have their nerves strung to concert
pitch on the racecourse, where they run many
pounds better than on their own home grounds.
Needless to say, the latter sort are the ones that cost
their backers the least money.

It is a good plan for a man who bets always to
carry a ' Eacing Guide ' in his pocket, also the latest
issues of the weekly guide published at the offices of
some of the sporting papers, and of course contain-
ing all the latest returns of racing up to date. Make
up your mind what animal you are going to back
before you go near the Ring, and if you are a fair
judge of the looks and condition of a horse, try and
get a chance of inspecting him in the saddling paddock
before the race. Avoid touting as much as possible,
though it is desirable, if it can be done, to ascertain
from those who should know most about him if an
animal is well. If you fancy a horse very much, and
find that he is a great favourite at what you consider
to be a false price, do not on that account put on more
money than you originally proposed to risk. It is
foolish, though at the same time it is a by no means
uncommon practice in such cases, to back another
animal in the race instead of your original fancy. If
you can really make out on form that your second
choice actually has a chance of beating the favourite,
it may be that the price you would get about him in

II. c

10 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

the face of a hot favourite would be worth your
taking. Above all, abstain from plunging when you
are losing. ' Cut your losses and play up your win-
nings/ is the best advice I can give to beginners, or
indeed, to every backer of horses, though it is advice
which requires no little resolution to act upon, as we
almost daily see.

Do not be led away by fairy tales of what horses
can do or have done at home. During my racing
career I have had hundreds of trials, often employing
the best jockeys to ride in them, and taking every
possible care and pains to arrive at a really accurate
and trustworthy result ; but my experience is that
four out of six of them — I state the proportion de-
liberately— turn out to be wrong, as shown after-
wards by the public form of the horses. If a good
two-year-old comes out, stick to him till he is beaten,
unless he has to carry such a penalty that his victory
would seem impossible. Eemember that to a speedy
and early two-year-old, running six furlongs is nearly
equivalent to a five-furlong horse of maturer age run-
nins: a mile. You cannot make some two-vear-olds
get six furlongs. They stop after going ^ve as if
they were shot. If two animals of apparently the
same class have to run a longer course than they
have travelled before, back the gamer of the two,
the one that you believe wiU run the longer. You
hav^ much greater pleasure during the race if you
do so, and although the other one may be pulling
over your selection in the early part of the struggle,
the moment his jockey begins to ride him you know
you have won your money.

If you find an animal is at a longer price in the

A HANDICAP BOOK 11

betting than you anticipated, and you know of no
good reason for his being so, put a little more
money on liim than you intended to wager. It will
pay you in the long run for having to take short
prices about ' good things.' It is a good plan in the
morning to go over the performances of horses that
you intend to back, but if you keep a handicap book —
that is, if you handicap the first three or four horses
in races, by putting on to or taking off weight from
what they carried, so as to reduce them as nearly as
possible to ' a dead heat on paper,' as all good handi-
cappers ought to do — do not rely implicitly on your
calculation, or you are sure to lose. Your book can-
not take into consideration the improvement of
horses with age, or with work, or with less ivorh
(which latter is, I generally find, a very frequent
cause of improved form). Backers, again, are far too
apt to forget what very great differences exist in various
courses that races are run over, although the dis-
tances may be the same. A horse may distinguish
himself greatly on the ^Ye furlongs at Epsom, all down
hill, and be wholly unable to show to advantage over
the severe ^\e furlongs at Sandown, all up hill. No
doubt there might well be a difference of a stone in
a horse's running at these two places, and where
would your book be then ?

For several years I kept a handicap book, and
took the greatest pains with it, but when I had
thoroughly tested it I gave it up in disgust. One
particular reason for doing so was the following : —
One day two horses were in a race. It lay between
them, as the others were outclassed. I made up my
mind to have ^\e hundred pounds on one of them.

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but before doing so I consulted my book, and found
to my horror that the other had five pounds in hand.
I was greatly puzzled what to do, but in the end I
chanced my book (having had misgivings about it on
several occasions before) and backed my own fancy,
which won cleverly a length and a half. During the
race my feelings were extremely mixed. I was appre-
hensive and bothered at the idea that my carefully
compiled book would very hkely prove to be wrong,
but still more apprehensive and bothered at the idea
that it might prove right and I should lose my money.
Now, I only handicap certain horses from one week to
another, relying always on the latest form, provided
I can ascertain that there is no particular reason why
that form should not be right. I say, also, to the
beginner, Provide yourself with a good pair of glasses,
watch each race with the greatest attention — not only
the horse you have backed in it but all the others,
or as many of the others as you can — and note what
you think was second and third best if an animal
wins easily and the rest are not persevered with
right past the post. Do not bet on every race — that
is fatal — but pay the same attention to those you do
not bet on, and you will find the pleasure of watching
them is the same, if not greater. Never bet on selling
handicaps, which are the most odious kind of races
run on the contemporary turf, and detrimental to the
good of the sport and the breed of racehorses, inasmuch
as a certain number of worthless animals are kept in
training every year, especially for this class of race.
If a gentleman says to his trainer, ' I must get rid of
this brute,' his answer is sure to be, ' Oh, keep him a
little longer, sir ; I think I can get him through a

SELLING HANDICAPS CONDEMNED 13

selling handicap ! ' Besides, my great objection to
this class of race is that it is not fair for horses to be
entered all to be sold for one price, 100^., and for
one horse to be called on to give another of the same
age two stone or more. I hope to see selling handi-
caps done away with, but some years ago when, as
abeady remarked, I proposed at a Jockey Club meet-
ing that they should cease to exist, many members
rose and protested against my motion, as if they
were Clerks of Courses themselves. Their defence
of these wretched affairs was based on the fact that
Catterick Bridge and other small northern meetings
would cease to exist if selling handicaps were abo-
lished, so they still continue in great force, and any-
one who likes to go down to Alexandra Park (of late
years, I must say, an admirably conducted meeting,
in spite of the occasional presence of ' the rough
element ' ) may, after one of these races, become
possessed of half-a-dozen or a dozen ' racehorses,'
sold at auction for prices varying from five to twenty-
five guineas each.

It is bad, again, to bet on big nurseries at what is
called ' the back end.' Even if your money is on
the horse that really has the best chance, it does not
at all follow that he will be returned the winner, as
the starter has immense trouble with the lads and
apprentices that ride the lighter-weighted horses, and
after a long delay at the post, caused by repeated
false starts, the fractiousness of the horses, and, I
regret to say, sometimes of the jockeys, he is so sick
and disgusted with them that he is often glad to drop
his flag to even the semblance of a good start ; hence
the result of the race is often a lottery, and you

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might as well toss up or draw numbers out of a bag
for your money.

Far and away the best races to bet on are the
weight-for-age races, and to my taste they are also
the most interesting. I go so far as to say, from long
experience, that if a shrewd and careful backer keeps
his head, does not plunge or risk more than he can
conveniently pay on the Monday, and confines
himself to betting on weight-for-age races, he can
make a certainty of winning money every year ; but
he must work hard at the public form of horses, be
unprejudiced, and have a certain knowledge, which
may come to him instinctively or be acquired by
years of well-paid-for experience. For a man
thoroughly to understand racing he ought to have
sedulously followed the sport for fifteen or twenty
years, and to have had hundreds of all sorts of race-
horses through his hands. I never was fortunate
enough to own a really first-class animal. They want
no attention, they win for themselves, and you need
not trouble your head about ' placing ' them. It is
the bad ones that cause you an anxious time. No
one but a very rich man could afford to keep a stud
of bad horses year after year without betting ; indeed,
a man is very lucky not to lose enormously by them,
however good a judge he may be. Still, you have
to own bad horses if you cannot afibrd to
breed good ones or to give enormous prices season
after season for yearlings, and I for one, who speak
from experience, do not hesitate to say that it is, and
always has been, a great pleasure to me to win a
quantity of little races with moderate horses. You
must not fiy at too high game.

HORNPIPE 15

It has, perhaps, been my fault that I have con-
tented myself with winning small races with horses
that might have done better if they had been kept^
and sometimes the modest owner is too easily pleased.
In 1882, for instance, I saw a very good-looking five-
year-old, called Hornpipe, running in a selling race
at Windsor. He looked very unfit, but likely to win
races when wound up, and I asked a gentleman who
had a horse running to claim Hornpipe for me. At
that moment I caught sight of the trainer, Tom
Brown, and asked him if he would take 200Z. for the
horse, and he consented, provided I gave him a trifle
out of the first race he won. Hornpipe went to my
stable and made rapid improvement — greater, indeed,
than we thought — and a fortnight or three weeks
afterwards he won a handicap at Newmarket July
Meeting by ten lengths, beating a large field. If I
had kept him for the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood he
could not have had more than 6 st. 5 lb. on him, and
would have won to a certainty, as Lowland Chief, the
winner, would have had to give him 2 st. 3 lb., which,
good horse as he was, he could not have done. I
shall have more to say about Hornpipe in another
part of the book.

One year, with a very moderate lot of horses, I
was fortunate enough to win more races than any
other owner, owing to the circumstances of my being
contented with small races, and not soaring too high.

In buying and breeding yearlings, always
endeavour to get those that have staying blood in
their veins. If a man can find a horse that stays a
mile and a half to two miles it will be very easy to win
plenty of races with him. There are hundreds of

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five-furlong and six-furlong sprinters, but the real
stayers you can almost count on your fingers, and
probably in a few years' time they will be rarer stilL
The enormous quantity of two-year-old stakes has to
answer for this. Breeders do not direct their atten-
tions to producing stayers : speed and fashion are
what they look to, and are quite satisfied if a yearling
they have sold the year before at Doncaster comes
out and wins a 500Z. two-year-old plate before
their next sale takes place. Year after year, too,
foreigners come over and buy our soundest horses
for stallions, and our best mares for brood mares.
Who cares, when a Derby winner had for a sire a
second-class horse in Master Kildare, and a selling-
plater for his dam ? Verily, there is luck in breeding
when this can happen, and when in some years the
produce of all Lord Falmouth's valuable and beauti-
ful mares hardly won enough to pay for their forfeits.
It is curious that the latter nobleman scarcely ever
bred from a stallion of his own, always sending his
mares all over the country to be mated. Adventurer
having been a special favourite of his. Nothing would
ever induce him to patronise Hermit, but I cannot
help thinking this arose from obstinacy, and that he
would have done well if he had sent some of his
mares to that wonderfully successful sire.

A few words here on the subject of the Eing.
Taking the members of it as a body, there is little
legitimate fault to be found with their methods of
conducting their business. There are, no doubt, some
black sheep amongst them ; but it is easy to steer
clear of these. A man ought to be careful to bet
only with those he knows, or if he wants to take a

SETTLING 17

bet from a man lie does not know, to ask for a refer-
ence at the moment. If the bookmakers did the same
thing, as they ought to, they would have consider-
ably fewer bad debts on their books than is at present
the case. If they are treated courteously they will
be found civil, and even obliging. Above all, never
break faith with them. Recollect that the whole
foundation of betting between backers and layers
rests entirely on honour — ' parole,' as the French
would say.

If after a bad week a backer finds himself in
the painful position of having lost more than he can
pay, and if he does not care to go to ' the Accommo-
dation Market,' as it is called, in order to settle on
Monday, he should see his creditors himself, explain
the state of the case, name the day on which he will
be able to set matters right, and scrupulously
remember if they have a bad week and their
account is not settled their credit is gone for ever,
and men would fight shy of betting with them for
the future. Never let your account be missing at
Tattersall's, and always have it returned to you with
crosses against those you have paid and received
from, so that you may file the accounts and be able
to see at the end of the year on which side the
balance is. It is a good plan to make out your
account every night after a day's racing ; then at
the end of the meeting or the week aU you have
to do is to add the pages together. You will find
this will save no end of mistakes arising from your
forgetting whether you lost or won on a certain race
early in the week, if you have omitted to put ' lost '
or ' won ' to the bet in question in your book ; you

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cannot be too careful in making these points distinct,
and if you have occasion to bet with several men on
a race, write down the bet as you take it from each.
If you do not do this, sometimes you will find you
have booked a bet to the man standing next the real
layer, and this gives rise to endless confusion and
annoyance.

The chief fault I find with the Eing is their
anxiety to bet in large sums at short prices with
plungers, and their laying under the odds to novices.
Of course, provided they do not tell you a horse's
proper quotation is 6 to 4 when it is really 2 to 1,
they are quite at liberty to offer you the first-named
price, and they are not doing wrong if you are
foolish enough to take it ; but I fear sometimes one
or two of them go a little beyond this, and I am not
surprised at it, considering the way they have at
times been treated by men who go up to them race
after race, and at the end of the week, having ' gone
for the gloves,' which simply means a deliberate and
fraudulent intention of getting home or not paying
one farthing, treat the matter as a joke, and no more
think of settling than of blowing their own brains
out ! I recollect years ago at Warwick, the last day,
a gentleman saying, ' Confound these fellows, they
think I know something ! They won't bet with me.'
They did ' know something ' — they knew that he
would not settle on Monday, and they were right.
Sometimes they freeze up the last day of a week's
racing that has been extra profitable to them, and
then, certainly, they hear no good of themselves
from exasperated backers who cannot get enough on
a good thing. Once a backer said to the late George

DEFAULTERS 19

Taylor, ' Taylor, you brute, what short prices you
lay I ' ' Quite right, sir, as short as ever I can 1
was the reply. I should like Fry, Steel, Emerson,
Baylis, and others, to publish their lists of bad debts
made during the last few years. People would be
astonished at the amount owed to these men, yet
they rather condone the fact of being owed money
by hardly ever applying the remedy of making
the loser a defaulter, and all sorts of people are
going about to racecourses now owing the Eing
money, the creditors hoping some day to recover
a portion of it. The most disgraceful part of it is
that some of these defaulters are owners of race-
horses, gentlemen riders, and so forth. Personally,
I have no pity for bookmakers who do not post a
man for owing them money, after they have given
him a reasonable time for payment. If this were
done, a healthier tone would be given to betting,
there would not be so much reckless plunging as
there is, and it would be far better for backers and
layers. I recollect once, on the day the Two
Thousand was run for some years ago, I was stand-
ing talking to Henry Steel, for whose judgment I
have a great respect, and whom I have always
found most straightforward in all his dealings. By
his side was his trusty partner, Peech. All of a
sudden I saw the latter make hurriedly off in a bee
line through the scattered crowd that thronged the bird
cage, and on asking Steel what was up, he laughed
and said, ' Oh, nothing. Sir George, it's only Bill after a
bit of old,' meaning that he had seen a man who had
owed him money for some years, and had gone to
give him a gentle reminder of the fact.

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Betting nowadays is a very different thing from
what it was twenty years ago, though the plunging
days were before my time. Peech relates that on
the morning of a great race, when a mare of Lord
Hastings's was a hot favourite for the One Thousand,
the Marquis sent for him, Morris, and several other
prominent bookmakers, and after treating them to
champagne, he said, ' I have promised John Day, my
trainer, that I won't lay the slightest shade of odds
on my mare, but I will bet you all as much money as
you like at evens.' After some little demur they
betted him 20,000Z. evens. The mare was easily
beaten. The day has gone by, too, when you could
back an animal to win 100,000/. for the Cesarewitch
and Cambridgeshire, although as late even as Eose-
bery's year. Steel, who had the commission, backed
him to win that sum for the first event. Now and
then there has been heavy gambling at short prices
on small races, and on a Thursday at Newmarket,
towards the end of 1882, a day on which only races
of trivial importance were decided, a friend of mine
showed me his book, which contained a loss of
27,000Z. on the day, that gay deceiver Sachem, if
I remember rightly, having contributed largely
towards this melancholy result.

Mr. Buckworth Powell, well known in the West
of England, told me at Salisbury races a curious
story about a bet.

He expected that a relative would leave him
a legacy of 10,000Z., but when the will came to be
read, to his surprise he found he was only entitled
to a hundredth part of that sum. He determined
to invest this at long odds on some horse entered

A DOUBLE-EVENT BET 21

for the Cambridgeshire, before the weights were
published, and his fancy for some reason or other
proved to be See Saw ; he took 10,000 to 100 about
him, and had the pleasure of seeing the horse win
the race. It is not very often that one hears of
double-event bets being both landed, but Count
Jaraczewski took 10,000 to 100 about Eobert the
Devil for the Cesarewitch and Lucetta for the Cam-
bridgeshire, and stood the bet out, although after the
objection to the latter, and the long time the Stewards
(of whom I was one) took to decide it, he hedged
a thousand or so of the money. Everyone congratu-
lated him on his good luck, as he was very popular
with his friends.

The mention of this gentleman's name induces me
here to interpolate a few particulars about one who
was so well known and popular in London society,
even at the risk of being told that they are not pre-
cisely pertinent to the subject of this chapter. The
Count's life had been a chequered one. Wlien he
came to London, about 1873, he knew only Mr. Payne
and Captain Little from having met them at Nice ;
they got him elected a member of the Turf Club,
then in Grafton Street, and being a good whist
player, and most amiable and courteous, he soon
gained many friends, and made England his home to
the day of his sudden death in the spring of 1881.
He once told me the story of a duel that he had had
before any of us knew him, which resulted so tragi-
cally, that he always affirmed nothing would induce
him to fight another. A young lady, a great friend
of his family's, had been brought up with him. He
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travelling about tlie world while she was married.
One afternoon they met in the street of some foreign
town, and she insisted on his coming to dine with
them that night, to be introduced to her husband.
When he arrived at the appointed hour he found her
alone in the sitting room, and going up to her
embraced her on the cheek, as he had always been
accustomed to do. At this moment her husband
entered the room, and being of a fiery and uncontroll-
ably jealous temper, he would listen to no reason
or explanation, and insisted on their fighting the
next morning. Seconds were procured, and the
duel took place at a favourite spot just outside the
city. The husband took a calm aim at Jaraczewski
and missed him, the latter firing in the air. The
seconds would not allow the duel to proceed, upon
which the irate husband went up to my friend and
struck him in the face, upon which the latter said,
' There was no reason before for this senseless duel,
therefore I did not fire at you ; now, however, I shall
avenge this insult.' At the first shot Jaraczewski hit
his adversary in the knee, and mortification setting in
he died in a few days' time, not, however, before a
complete reconciliation had taken place between them.
In spite of my friend's resolution not to fight, he
did not keep it, as he became involved in an affair at
Nice about three years after he came to England, and
narrowly escaped being shot through the heart.
Some members of the Cercle de la Mediterranee were
dining at that club one night, when one of them
thought it a good joke to mix some Harvey sauce
and vinegar in a glass, sending it round to old Count
Crassousky as excellent Tokay. The Count, not

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smelling a rat, raised the glass smilingly to liis lips,
at the same time bowing to the sender. Of course,
the moment he tasted it he made a wry face and
angrily put down the glass. Jaraczewski said he
would take it upon himself to deal with so gross
an offence to his countryman, who was too old
to fight, and a duel was at once arranged. The
conditions were that, at a given signal, the com-
batants might either fire at once or approach each
other to a specified point. The hair trigger of Jara-
czewski's pistol must have been set very lightly or else
his hand had lost its cunning, as his weapon went oft
accidentallv as he was raisins^ it to aim. His adver-
sary stopped, took what is vulgarly called a 'pot
shot ' at him, and rolled him over like a rabbit, a tiny
puff of smoke coming from the left side of the wounded
man's black frock coat, which made the seconds fear
that he was mortally hurt. By a fortunate accident the
bullet had hit one of his ribs close over the heart, had
glanced round his body and made its way out through
the back of his waistcoat and coat, a truly marvellous
escape. I myself have seen the coat and waistcoat, and
have put my finger on the dark red mark — the size of a
florin — exactly over his rib. I have not the slightest
doubt that such a shock accelerated the heart disease
from which he eventually died. His death was not a
great surprise to some of us who have seen him catch
his breath as if suffering from a momentary spasm,
and I take this opportunity of denying most emphati-
cally a rumour that he died by his own hand. Only
a few nights before his death I dined with him and
went to the theatre. He was in excellent spirits, and
not worse off than he had often been before. Further-

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more, if he had been in immediate want of money he
had some good friends then who would readily have
helped him. I shall ever look back on him as a
chivalrous, kind-hearted, and brave man, who for
years, it is true, had lived by his wits, but who was
incapable of a dishonourable action.

To return to my subject of betting. Try and lose
and win your money with equal imperturbability. A
boasting, boisterous winner is almost more odious
than a whining loser, though there are occasions
when some fine performance of a favourite horse may
draw from his owner or some enthusiastic supporter
expressions of satisfaction and approval. When you
are in a winning vein for several weeks be thankful
for your good luck and do not forget that the reverse
of the medal is quite certain to be presented shortly,
perhaps when you are least prepared for it. Still, I
am all for making hay whilst the sun shines, and
confidence often makes one's wits clearer. The late
Mr. E. Brayley once exclaimed that ' he was tired of
winning.' His luck quickly changed after this speech
— for years he won very few races, and died in
very moderate circumstances.

It is related that when Black Tommy, the pro-
perty of Mr. Drinkald, passed the post for the Derby,
locked together with another horse, believing he had
won, his owner shouted out excitedly, ' Thank Heaven
I have won the Derby, and nobody is on ! ' meaning
that none of his friends had backed the horse. A
second later, when the number went up, to his intense
mortification, and to the frantic delight of his friends
who had heard his remark, he found his horse had
been beaten a short head.

'GETTING HOME' 25

I recollect seeing poor Charles Brewer — when
Eobert the Devil was sailing away in front at the
Bell in the Derby, and Archer was seen to be riding
Bend Or two lengths behind — surrounded by an ad-
miring crowd of friends who were patting him on the
back whilst he was complacently pointing to his horse
as much as to say, ' There s a horse for you ! ' and even
after they had passed the post, believing he had won ;
but fiYQ minutes afterwards, great as the disappoint-
ment must have been to him after his acceptance
of victory, he was talking it over as coolly and
collectedly as if it had been a small selling plate.

The owner of Paradox, too, took defeat well in
Melton's year, measuring with his hands what the
distance of a head would be, and exclaiming, ' By
Jove ! to be only that much off winning the Derby :
I shall never get as close again ! '

You never could tell by Lord Eosebery's face
whether he had won or lost. Still, sometimes it is re-
freshing to see the beaming face of some young man
who has pulled off a good bet, particularly if you
happen to know that it is a 'retriever ' to get him home
on a bad week. I have pleasurable recollection of a
grin from ear to ear of a friend of mine only last year
at Brighton August Meeting when he had taken 1,600
to 200 about Kaikoura in the Light Weight Plate.
Things had been going very badly before with him,
and this win meant much.

However, it is these very retrievers that I want
to warn inexperienced and reckless backers against,
as they generally turn out disastrously, and, whereas
before you found yourself within measurable distance
from home, the matter has now assumed such propor-

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tions that you only thirst for the numbers of the next
race to go up to plunge madly on the favourite again,
and so on till the last race is run and you turn
hopelessly away, knowing that it is impossible you
can settle your account in full on Monday. It is then
that thoughts get into your head that ought to be
banished at once if you wish to remain strictly
honourable. ' If they make any row about my not
settling m see them somewhere before they ever get
a shining,' is a remark that has been made after
a disastrous Ascot or Houghton week.

All the same, if men wiU bet, I strongly advo-
cate betting at Ascot. Many weigh t-for- age races
are run, and the best horses in training are always
seen out there and at Goodwood — both favourite
places of mine for winning money. Beware of
Newmarket ! awful are the upsets that take place on
the famous heath. I believe the reason of it is that
horses can see such a long way in front of them
beyond the winning post, especially on the T. Y. C,
Ditch, and Abingdon Mile courses. They do not
know where the post is (nor do most of the jockeys,
by the way), and this discourages them. The Eous
course contains many traps for a favourite if he
happens to be back at the knees, or if his shoulders
are wrong. No sooner are they at the top of the hill
than down they go into the Dip, and it takes a lot of
getting out of, and up the hill home. That Dip
has been fatal to many a horse's chance when he is
beginning to tire, and is all abroad, floundering, in
fact, before his jockey has time to pull him together.
If you walk over the Eowley Mile you will be sur-
prised at the many changes that take place in the

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course, and if you walk briskly up to and past tlie
winning post, and, not stopping to do so, thrust your
stick in tlie ground exactly in what you think is a
straight line between the two posts, when you have
contemplated your attempt you will be charitable in
future about any jockey not much accustomed to ride
at Newmarket whom you see beaten a head on the
post. Here, by the way, let me add, that if you bet
about the result of a race before the number goes up
you should never do so ' absolutely,' which is the way
the Eing will want you to bet. If you say, ' so-and-
so has won for ten absolutely^' and it is a dead heat,
you lose your money. From the stand at l!^ewmarket,
it is very difficult at times to tell what has won after
a close finish, and I can recommend the backer to
follow Steel, who always bets on such a result and is
nearly always right.

Systems in betting are decidedly fallacious, and I
advise no one to try them. M. Blanc, the proprietor
of the gambling rooms at Monte Carlo, once said, ' I
welcome heartily all who come to try their systems
at my tables ; if only they stay long enough, they are
sure to lose everything they have got. The finest
system a player can have is to back the winning
colour and never to oppose runs.' My experience at
Monte Carlo tells me he was right. About the year
1878, 1 went there for the first time, and on approach-
ing one of the trente et quarante tables there was a
run on the black, and not a single louis was on the
red. Being somewhat ignorant of the game, and
with the firm conviction that those magnificent rooms
and gardens were not kept up by the losses of the
bank, I opposed the run with a few louis, and lost

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time after time, some of the players looking at me
compassionately, as tliey raked in their winnings, as
much as to say I was mad. I lost all that I had in
my pocket, fortunately amounting only to a thousand
francs, but I am sure I should have continued back-
ing the red if I had had more money with me, and I
should have gone on losing as there was a run on
the black of about fifteen or sixteen. At that time
it amused me to play, and I used to go over there from
Mce with two friends, each carrying small sums.
We would sit down to play in earnest, but always
agreed to meet in the rooms at a certain hour, and
we had great fun one day when we discovered our
funds were so low that a sum had to be put on one
side to pay for our dinner. Oddly enough, when we
met for that meal at the Hotel de Paris, then in the
hands of the Administration, which provided admi-
rable fare for all at a more moderate price than that
charged by the present company, we had all three
won back our losses and a considerable sum besides,
and consequently were in high glee. Francois, that
most civil and obliging of head waiters, then pre-
sided over the dining-room, but when the hotel
changed hands he went to the Grand, which at
once became the fashionable hotel, and the greatest
epicure could not wish for a better dinner than is
served in the beautiful room decorated in the
Moorish fashion. Here, after dinner you get cafe
a la Jure served hot and frothing in perfection, by a
black, attired in his native costume, and if you do
not feel inclined to go to the concert or the gambling
rooms, you can sit comfortably smoking your cigar
under the arcades of the hotel, looking on to a

MONTE CARLO 29

square adorned with palm trees and other tropical
plants.

One day the following year I determined to play
all day at one of the trente et quarante tables, with
the result that I returned to Nice, the loser of one
louis, and was warmly congratulated by some friends,
who exclaimed when I related what I had done,
^ Mais, c'est une victoire ! '

I had now learnt to play carefully, and about
the first week in January 1882, I and my friend, Mr.
Eeuben Sassoon, went to stay for a fortnight or three
weeks at the Hotel des Anglais at Nice, and I under-
took to guide him in the mysteries of the tables,
assuring him it was almost a certainty if one kept
one's head. We sat together, and pursuing the policy
of always following the winning colour, withdrawing
a portion of our winnings, and playing what is called
' flat stakes,' that is, not increasing when we lost ; and
we won day after day. My friend, however, was not
content to sit still for two hours at one table, and
the charms of roulette were too much for him, so he
gradually lost back all his winnings. One day a
player, who was keeping elaborate calculations, said
to him, ' Number so and so hasn't come up for sixty
odd times.' ' Now is my time!' exclaimed my friend.
He had had bad luck before, which had reduced the
sum he had brought with him. However, he backed
the number ' en plein ' till he had no more money in
his pocket, and had the mortification of seeing it
turn up the second time after he had left off playing.
Another day we had arrived about 4.30 in the after-
noon as usual, and I had won the exact sum that I
always then brought with me, five thousand francs.

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We met, and my friend said, ' Aren't you playing ? '
I answered that I was not, having won just what I
wanted. He said, ' Do you mean to say you won't
play again to-night?' and I replied that I should not.
After dinner when we had nearly finished our cigars,
I proposed an adjournment to the rooms, when we
parted, he saying incredulously to me ' You mean to
say you won't play again ? ' I meant ' ISTo ' at the
time, but being bored with watching the play, and
knowing we should not return till the last train, I
thought I would venture five hundred francs, which
I did and lost. To make a long story short, I lost the
10,000 francs I had in my pocket, and angry at having
been so weak, I turned to an old gentleman called
Cellier, who makes hundreds a year by keeping seats
for players and lending them money, and asked him
for 10,000 francs, half of which I staked at once and
lost. I told him to put the remaining half on. I won,
left it all on, and won again, and was content to take
the 20,000 francs off the table, paying him back his
loan with a few louis, and went off to seek my friend.
Fortunately he said to me, ' Have you still got your
winnings ? ' and his question enabled me to reply in the
affirmative, and to produce the notes out of my pocket.

' Wonderful ! ' he said, and not till a year after-
wards did I confess to him how nearly his good-
humoured chaff made me lose a large sum.

My reminiscences of Monte Carlo include an
Italian gentleman, who was playing a system, all the
available space at the table being crowded with
papers and packets of bank-notes. Having watched
him for some time, I was convinced he would not
last, as he doubled his stakes often when he lost, and

* RIEN NE VA PLUS ' 31

sometimes had to resort to the biggest packet of
notes as a retriever. He soon disappeared. An
Enghsh gentleman near me was playing a system
one day and I heard him say, ' Yes, this is the only
one, Labouchere's system. You can win fifty or
sixty louis a day at it.' Two days after I saw him
dejectedly watching the billiards in the hotel oppo-
site the Grand, and learnt that he had been cleaned out.
I once saw a row take place at the tables, between
a Spaniard and M. Oeschlager, an owner of horses.
The latter behaved well, telling his antagonist that he
would ' speak ' to him after the deal was over, but
on some well-meaning bystander whispering to the
Spaniard that his opponent was the best shot on the
Continent, an amicable understanding was come to.

A propos of Monte Carlo, it is usual for the Admini-
stration to give a grand dinner to celebrate the finish
of the pigeon-shooting season, followed by a display
of fireworks, which on a still night light up the bay
of Monaco, and give a singularly beautiful efiect to
its picturesque surroundings. One year, at one of
these festive dinners, a gentleman, who only knew
a few words of the French language, having won one
of the principal prizes, had his health proposed, and
rose to return thanks. Knowing the task that was
before him, he had carefully learnt a few words as
a reply to the toast. Whether it was the length of
the dinner or the excellence of the wines that made
him forgetful I know not, but when he got up, and
the cheering that greeted him had been subdued, he
began in faltering tones, ' Messieurs ! ' Then there was
a pause. At length he repeated ' Messieurs ! ' upon
which an important guest called out ' Faites le jeu.'

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This fairly settled the speaker, who again stammered
out the word ' Messieurs ; ' but he collapsed utterly
when the aforesaid guest shouted ' Eien ne va plus,'
and sat down amidst the good-humoured laughter
and chaff of all his friends.

Having been carried away to foreign lands by the
mention of the word system, I return to my humble
advice about systems in betting. The only mode-
rately good system I know of in betting is one that
was often adopted by Captain Batchelor. It was to
back the favourite of the first race at a meeting to
win bl. If the horse lost, he had to back the favourite
for the next race to win that sum, and the sum he
had lost on the horse in the previous race. This is
not a double-or-quits system, because he had the
advantage of the odds against a horse, and made it a
rule never to lay more than 5 to 4 on an animal.
He worked this system with some success, but said
that the calculation of .the odds was extremely irk-
some. Let my reader take up any calendar of the
last twenty years, and he will find this would be a
successful means of winning money, provided the
backer had the capital to stand losing a large sum ;
and, what is equally important, provided that he could
induce the bookmakers to lay a heavy sum against
the favourite, after things had been going so badly
that the figures had become large. I would suggest
that backing second favourites on this system would
be more profitable, owing to the much better price
you can always get about them. Indeed, I strongly
advocate backing second favourites outright, if you
are disappointed in the price of the leading favourite,
and at any rate saving on him, as often a horse is

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rushed into a prominent position, either because he
has won an extraordinary trial, because the Eing know
that the owner is going to have a dash on it, or be-
cause he hails from a fashionable stable, all of whose
patrons are sure to be on, or for a variety of other
reasons which do not hold good if you calmly calcu-
late the chances of the horses in the race.

Captain Batchelor was an extraordinarily super-
stitious man. One day I heard him say coming down
in the train. ' What a bore it is the Houghton week
lasts six days, I am obliged to take down six different
suits of clothes.' If he lost the first day he would
not think of appearing in the same suit the next day,
and so on through the week. He had a mania for
touching with his stick pieces of orange-peel or paper
that he saw in front of him as he walked, and I often
suggested what fun it would be to walk some little
distance in front of him, up Piccadilly or St. James's
Street, tearing up pieces of paper as one went. It
would have taken him a considerable time to walk a
hundred yards. He was a very fine whist player,
playing a peculiar game of his own, and preferring to
play in a muff rubber. He always in dealing gave
vent to a peculiar hiss as he turned the card up, and
invariably turned his cards three times over, and
stroked his forehead before looking at them. To
many owners and race-goers. Captain Batchelor will
be chiefly known from the fact that he started a ten
thousand pounds yearling book on the Derby in St.
Bevys' year, and did very well with it. He was a
most agreeable companion, with little weaknesses like
other men, one of these being that he was rather a
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best in the world, without a moment's hesitation he
repHed, ' My dinner.' Never well off, he was always
honest and honourable, a good hater, but a sincere
friend. The few last years of his life he suffered
much, but was always patient and good-tempered,
and he swore by Mr. Alfred and Mr. Leopold de
Eothschild, who were the kindest and most generous of
friends to him, as they always are to any one they like.

After this long digression, my readers will per-
haps understand that I recommend them to back the
public horse, in preference to the dark horse, to
eschew systems, to play up their winnings without
being too greedy, a fatal fault, and to cut their losses
as much as it is possible.

The mysterious backer is a source of great amuse-
ment to me. He delights in street-corner tips, and
listening to information given in out-of-the-way places
on racecourses. He disdains public form, revels in
stories of moonlight trials, rushes to back any horse
because some tout has told him ' It is his journey
this time,' that 'he is on the job to-day,' and has
inspired him by some such vulgar expression. He
eagerly reads all the training reports, carefully
studies account of trials in some of the papers that are
supposed to convey marvellous intelligence gratis. If
he does happen to back a winner, some horse whose
public form is not well known, he delights in assuming
an air of mystery. With nods and winks and half-
finished sentences, he gives his friends to understand
that ' he knew something that time.'

He reminds me of the Irishman who when, ' Going
out to steal, he stole. And chinking his money, he
chunk. And many a wicked smile he smole. And many

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a wink he wiink.' He hates people to think that he
ever loses, that he is not perfectly 'an fait' with every-
thing that takes place in the racing world ; but in-
variably towards the end of a bad week he discards
all private information about which he had so much
to say before, and plunges wildly on the favourites,
or on the information of some friend whose advice
he would have scorned earlier in the meeting. This
class of man never lasts unless he has a good income.
He o'oes on concealing his losses, and vaunting; the
few winners he does back, till he reaches the end of
his tether, as he rarely has the prudence to give
it up in time, before it gives him up. It is the
old story of good money thrown after bad, and
yet the noble army of backers has fresh rein-
forcements every day. As some go, others take
their place, with the idea they are cleverer than the
rest, that they won't be reckless, that they will limit
themselves, tie themselves down never to have more
than a fixed sum on any race. Good resolutions
never kept. The day comes when they lose race after
race, when they are only panting for the numbers to
go up, that they may back something, retrieve a part
of their heavy losses. Still the favourites go down.
There is one more race. This time the favourite
must win ! So intent is the infatuated backer,
writing down his bets, he hardly hears the cry, ' They
are off,' so busy is he with the bookmakers. As the
horses near the winning post, he rushes to see the
finish, a shout is raised for the favourite, and for a
few strides he looks like winning, but an outsider is
pressing him hard, and he doesn't relish the high
pressure. A few yards farther and his jockey is at

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work on him, then out comes that forlorn hope, the
whip ; but it is of no avail, the outsider stays gamely
on, and amidst the yells of the fielders just holds his
own to the end, and wins by a head. It is the last
race of the meeting, and the backer returns home a
sadder, but rarely a wiser man. How many of these
races have we seen in our lifetime, and how little
have we profited by the experience, and how impos-
sible it is to din that experience into younger heads !
Clever is the man who bets bravely when he wins,
and like a coward when he loses ; you need never
fear for him. He will have little difficulty in settling
his account on a black Monday, and if he is a good
judge, his account will be on the right side at the end
of the racing season.

It is wonderful what keen interest the general public
take in racing, and the knowledge they possess about
the merits of racehorses. Not lono^ ao^o I travelled
to Kempton in the same carriage with some men
whose profession could not be many miles from
Covent Grarden Market. After they had gone through
the day's performance of races, showing how well
they were acquainted with the horses that were going
to run, their failings and their strong points, the
conversation turned on their business, and I was
much amused ^ at one man stating, in reply to
another's question, ' What is so-and-so doing now ? '
' Oh, all berries and grass ' ; and he further added,
' You wouldn't believe it, that, although I have sold
hundreds of baskets of berries this year, I haven't as
much as tasted one ! ' From this I gathered they had
been talking of strawberries and asparagus. Over
and over again I have asked bookmakers, after a race

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won by a public liorse, which for some foolish reason
those supposed ' to be in the know/ including myself,
have omitted to back, owing to a report that the
horse was amiss or had been beaten in his trial, or
any other reason why we were stupid enough to
ignore his form, ' Did you lay against the winner ? '
and the inevitable answer has been, ' Oh, yes ; the
general public were on to a man.' Good judges are
the general public, as a rule, but sometimes they are
a little hard on a jockey who comes too late, either
from having been tied down to wait with his horse,
his owner and trainer believing he will hardly last
home, or because he had been shut in at an early
part of the race, which they have failed to perceive,
from the impossibility of seeing the race from the fall
of the flag, or because most of them are unprovided
with race-glasses. I well remember one of our most
famous jockeys — the one whose riding I most admire
— telling me he believed he could have won many
races in which he suffered a neck or half-length
defeat, owing to not having dared wait as long as
he could have wished to do, ' because the public are
so hard in their judgment on a jockey if he does
happen to come too late ; ' and I hope these few
remarks will influence those who have cried out,
and blamed jockeys who have been unfortunate
enough to have incurred their displeasure by coming-
in second and losing them their money (this is where
the cap fits), although they have done their level best.
Some of the finest ridden races I have ever seen have
been by jockeys who have been just beaten, and
praise ought to be given to them just as much as if
they had been successful.

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Nothing can be more foolish, and I speak
feelingly, than 'throwing away a tenner on some-
thing for an interest.' I am not ashamed to say, I
often have, and the money has generally gone
without much interest attached to the bet. A great
friend of mine rather contemptuously said, in answer
to the question, ' What did you do on that race ? '
' Oh, I only won twenty pounds.' Mr. G. Payne, who
happened to be standing by him, said grimly, ' Hah !
you don't think much of it here, but meet a friend in
the street and ask him to lend you that sum, and see
the face he makes ! ' Money is lightly made and lost
on a racecourse, and these tenners which we backers
throw away are as much of an income to the Eing as
the waste of mustard on a plate is to Mr. Colman,
who, so the story goes, makes five thousand a year by
the leavings of that indispensable relish. If the horse
you want to back is at a very short price, and you only
wish to risk a modest sum, back the one that has the
next best chance in your opinion, if you have one,
but rather than back a horse because he is at a long
price, don't bet at all.

The following authentic story will show the hold
that racing possesses over all classes of people. On
the day that Donovan won the Prince of Wales'
Stakes at Leicester, a lady, who had never been on a
racecourse in her life, made a call on some friends
who reside in a fashionable square in London. The
footman answered the bell, and in reply to her inquiry
if the young ladies were at home, answered 'No,
ma'am,' and then almost in the same breath added in
a confidential tone of voice, ' Donovan's won'

The Eing are rather apt to be down on young

BOOKMAKERS 39

gentlemen ignorant about prices. Often when they
have offered 70 to 40 against a horse, and it has been
refused, they have said, with an air of doing
a favour, ' Very well, then, put down a 100
to 60,' and it has been greedil}^ accepted, the taker
not seeing that it is a worse price than he just
refused. There are times when it is advisable to
accept a short price, if offered, to any money. For
instance, if I was doing a big commission about a
favourite, I would rather take 600 to 400 in
a bet from a good man than I would take 2 to 1
to small sums all down the rails, as, by the time I
had got the money on, the price would average the
first bet I mentioned, and there is the trouble of
writing down a lot of names as well. Small punters
— those that bet from five to thirty pounds — invari-
ably obtain better prices than high bettors. Book-
makers who know them deal liberally with them,
knowing they will come to them again ; besides, to
have a connection with a quantity of small punters is
very valuable to them in the long run, though, apart
from that, I have often heard them refuse to lay the
price asked for, and then relent, saying, ' If you only
want 5Z. on I will lay it you.' I always like to speak
of people as I find them, and the bookmakers have
always behaved well to me. They always trust a
man till he acts unfairly to them, and as all their
business is conducted on ' parole ' they are firm
believers in a man's honour. Any well-known
backer, if he happened to want a thousand pounds in
notes on a racecourse, could easily obtain it from the
Eing, who would be quite satisfied with his telling
the lender he would put it in his account on Monday.

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They would not tliink of asking for an acknowledg-
ment or I 0 U for the money. Can my readers tell
me of any other class of men in business or otherwise
that would do as much for a man they were not par-
ticularly interested in ?

After a week's racing in which the favourites
have been successful, the settling on Monday
is always a good one, and it is exactly the opposite
when the result has been in favour of outsiders, when
favourites have been bowled over and public form has
been upset. This is a fact that in itself speaks highly
of the Eing as a body. Of course, they have far
greater advantages than the noble army of backers.
Eace after race they can make their book, or ought
to be able to make it, so as to have one or two horses
running for them, by whom, in the event of one of
them being successful, they win a large sum of money,
without standing to lose much by the victory of one
of the leading favourites. Of course I am speaking
of races where there are eight or ten runners. They
set hard hit at times in a small field of horses where
backers will have nothing but the favourite. They are
extremely charitable, and are the first to subscribe to
any deserving fund, even if it does not directly appeal
to them, and they are always ready to accept the
decision of a third uninterested party about a
disputed bet, rather than that it should have to go
before the tribunal chosen to arbitrate on such
matters, which, however, both at Tattersall's and
especially at Newmarket, does its work exceedingly
well, and is respected by both backers and layers.

Bookmakers, especially those that pay starting
prices, are often thei victims of the unscrupulous.

* GETTING AT ' HORSES 41

Some time ago a man came to my commissioner and
gave for references the Duke of Portland and Mr.
Leopold de Eotlischild. At the time it was impos-
sible to ascertain if the references were correct, but
inquiries were made from other sources, which
proved that the would-be backer was a rogue.
Within a few hours of my writing this a similar
attempt at fraud has come to my knowledge. A
man went to a starting-price office not a hundred
miles from Shaftesbury Avenue and gave excellent
references, a well-known bank being one of them.
The bookmaker, foolishly, never attempted to ascer-
tain if the person was worthy of credit. On the
Tuesday of the First Spring Meeting he went to the
office and put 400Z. on Heaume, and on the following
day he put the same amount on Surefoot for the
Two Thousand. A man who saw him leave the
office recognised him as one of the Haymarket gang,
and communicated the fact to the too credulous
bookmaker. On the Friday the same man wanted
1,000^. on Semolina, but this was, of course, refused,
and the rascal, seeing that the game was up,
disappeared. The money won under false pretences
on the other two races was not, of course, applied
for.

Unfortunately, when horses have been got at, the
guilty people have rarely been discovered and brought
to justice. The late Joseph Dawson used to exhibit
some beans, drilled through and filled with some
poisonous drug, which he discovered in his stable,
but I believe he could never find in whose possession
they had been. Poor Captain Little told me that at
Chester, about thirty years ago, he was riding a hot

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favourite, on whom mucli money had been betted by
his stable. In cantering to the post it struck him
that there was something wrong with the horse, who
carried him as if he did not know where he was
going. When the flag fell the Captain had the
greatest difficulty in getting him round the turns,
and at the bend for home he said the horse would
have gone straight on up the bank if he had allowed
him. Fortunately he succeeded in steering his
mount safely home a winner, and on communicating
his suspicions to the lad in charge of the horse, the
animal's eyes were examined, and it was found some
miscreant had tried to blind him, by throwing a
quantity of snufF in them. For many days after-
wards the horse suffered acute pain from inflamma-
tion ; but it is satisfactory to know that the money
was landed, and that the object of such a scoundrel
was defeated. By such foul play as this the backer
may be at times defeated.

If men cannot bet upon races they will find some
other subject for their wagers, and this may be an
appropriate place to insert some proofs of this asser-
tion, copied from the wager book at the Turf Club.

Mr. Montague Guest bets Colonel Eeilly bl. that
the Eussians attempt to cross the Balkans during the
present war with Turkey. — May 7, 1877. Paid.

Colonel Forrester bets Captain Yorke 25Z. that if
there is war between Eussia and England, a British
man of war is blown up by torpedoes. — July 25, 1877.
Cancelled.

Lord Eosebery bets Lord de L'Isle 50Z. that at
the next general election the Liberals have a majority.
Jan. 14, 1877. Paid.

SOME SINGULAR BETS 43

Lord Eosebery makes same bet with Mr. C.
Sykes.

Mr. Leeson bets General Morris 25Z. that the
Eussians are masters of Constantinople before Prince
Soltykoff wins the Derby.

Mr. Montague Guest bets Lord Hardwicke 50/.
that England is at war with Eussia within the year
from this date.— May 6, 1877. Paid.

Count Montgelas bets General Morris 10/. that
England will be at war with Eussia before 6th May,
1878.

Mr. Lamont bets Major Francis 11. that there will
be a declaration of war by Britain within three weeks
from February 23rd.

Colonel Napier Sturt bets Lord March 10/., Colonel
Henry Wellesley 10/., and Colonel Eeilly 5/., that Mr.
Gladstone gets in for Midlothian if he stands against
Lord Dalkeith. First past the post, petitions barred,
both to start.— Dec. 1, 1879.

Sir E. Peel bets Mr. Leeson 10/. to 1/. that if
there be a dissolution of Parliament this year (1878)
Her Majesty's Government will have a majority in
the next Parliament.

Lord Eosebery bets Lord Eandolph Churchill
3/. to 1/. that he gives an official dinner at the
Foreign Office on the celebration of the Queen's
birthday this year, 1886.

Colonel Napier Sturt bets Captain Philip Green
10/. to 1/. against a certain phenomenon (mutually
understood) taking place within ten months of this
date, July 14th, 1881.

The same again between Colonel N. S. and Mr.
Philip Beresford-Hope.

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Victor Montague bets Batclielor 25^. level tliat
there is no British force in Egypt in two years from
July 26th, 1882. Paid.

Henry Leeson bets De Clifford 25Z. that Macheath
beats Fulmen in the Derby 1883, and 25Z. Macheath
beats Beau Brummel, one to win.

Lord Hardwicke bets Captain 0. Montague 10/.
that if the Liberal Party come into power at the
coming election, Mr. Gladstone will be Prime
Minister.

Lord Hardwicke makes the same bet with Mr.
H. Leeson.

Lord Cork bets Mr. C. 50/. that the Conservative
Party will not be in office in eight years from this
date, April 28, 1880.

Colonel Campbell bets Mr. Montague Guest that
the present Government is out of office by the 1st of
June, 1881, barring the death of the Prime Minister
in the interval, 6/. to 4/.

L. W. M. bets H. B. 50/. that T. W. B. is dead in
ten years, and 50/. that his personalty is over
20,000/.— July 20, 1883.

Lord de LTsle bets Henry Leeson 3/. to 1/., that
either Thebais or King Monmouth gets a place for
the Liverpool Cup this week. — Nov. 8, 1885.

Mr. Leeson bets Lord Alington 200/. to 25/. that
the Duke of Westminster does not win the Derby of
1889.— Feb. 26, 1888.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blinkhoolie
was favourite for the Goodwood Cup, and Mr. Henry
Chaplin had backed him for a lot of money. The
day before the race he received a message from
George Bloss, his trainer, that the horse had pulled

BLINKHOOLIE 45

up a little sore after his morning gallop. It might be
nothing at all, but he thought it well to inform him.
Mr. Chaplin at once went to his friend, Lord Eoyston,
and asked him to hedge some of his money, which
his lordship did, and on the day of the race it was
found that the mishap to Blinkhoolie was greater
than was imagined, so much so that Mr. Chaplin put
himself in the hands of the Stewards and Admiral
Eous, asking them to decide whether the horse was
to run or not. Their decision was that there would
be the risk of breaking him down if he did run,
which Mr. Chaplin was not obliged to incur. Accord-
ingly the horse was scratched. This gave dissatisfac-
tion to some people, who even imagined that Lord
Eoyston had got hold of it that the horse was amiss,
and had laid against him for himself. At the next
election at Cambridge, when his lordship was a candi-
date, he was interrupted in his speech by a man in
the audience who called out, ' How about Blink-
hoolie ? ' — no doubt thinking it was a home thrust
that would disconcert the speaker. But the latter
was more than equal to the occasion, as he quickly
replied, ' Blinkhoolie is a horse, sir, and you are an
ass.' This evoked roars of laughter : indeed, many of
Lord Eoyston's friends were wont to assert for years
afterwards that the smart reply won him the election.
Many years ago, in the sixties, a thick sea fog
came on just before the horses were about to be
saddled for a Welter race for gentlemen riders,
jockeys to carry 7 lb. extra. Sir Frederick Johnstone
owned the favourite — Charles the First, I think, was
his name — and, with Tom Cannon up, he backed his
horse for 1,500^. As William Day, his trainer, was

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walking up the course with Cannon to where the
horse was being saddled on the hill, he was greeted
with what he thought were rather sarcastic remarks
from the ready-money bookmakers at the lists, such
as, ' Yery thick fog, Mr. Day. Hope you will find
your horse,' &c., &c. This is exactly what he did
not do. After searching in vain for some time,
he discovered that someone had gone to the lad, who
was walking about with the horse, and given him a
message, purporting to come from his master, to take
the horse home at once on account of the fog. Of
course the bookmakers, having received ready-money
on the horse, were responsible for the trick.

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CHAPTEE II

TEYIIs^G HORSES

As a general rule I am not an advocate for trying
yearlings. There have been instances in which the
future fame of a good horse has been strongly sug-
gested before he was a two-year-old ; but such early
tests are apt to be deceptive, except on ascertaining
if the young ones possess speed. If the weather is
open, however, there is no harm in galloping the
smaller yearlings ; those, that is to say, which look
like coming to hand early in the following spring.
Three furlongs is quite far enough to try them, for
all you want to know at present is whether they have"
speed. They ought to be 'jumped off' several times
in order that they may acquire a knowledge of their
business before you reaUy try them together, and
great care should be taken never on any account to
frighten them. The beginning of the racing season,
just before Lincoln, is the time when owners generally
go down to try those of their two-year-olds that
appear to be getting ready for the ordeals of the race-
course, and it is well to instruct your trainer to give
them just a few rough gallops beforehand. If you
have any knowledge of the respective merits of the
youngsters gained from a gallop as yearlings, you
can write down the weights that you think wiU about
bring them together. They are almost certain not to

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come out quite correctly ; if they do so, something
more than mere judgment, something in the nature of
fluke or luck, will have aided you ; but if your trainer
re-handicaps them carefully on the last spin, you will
have some knowledge of their capabilities before you
really try them five furlongs. It is most important
that they shall have had racing] jackets on their
backs several times before they are really ' asked a
question,' to accustom their ears to the rustle of silk,
and their eyes to the bright colours.

If you are trying for the Brocklesby Stakes at
Lincoln Spring, a very bad tliree-year-old or four-year-
old plater will be quite good enough to use as a trial
animal, and probably you will do well to be satisfied
if the young one beats him at 7 lb. or 10 lb. Before
Belle Lurette won the Brocklesby in a canter, I tried
her to receive 3 st. 7 lb. from Sutler, the last five fur-
longs of the Ditch Mile, and she beat him four lengths
in a canter, which, however, made her quite 2 st. 7 lb.
worse than he was, and at six furlongs he would have
given her that weight and beaten her easily, as he was
not a good horse five furlongs. In your trial your
supposed best two-year-old will, of course, be called
on to concede weight to several others of the same
age, animals that are presumed — as a rule only too
truly — to be of little account, and are consequently
destined to be put as early as possible into selling
races. The best of these you send to Lincoln to run
in a selling race the first day, and by its form in that
contest you are enabled to judge if your other animal
Jias any chance for the more important two-year-old
races. After the first week of the racing season you
will know something of the form of the young ones ;

TRYING TWO-YEAR-OLDS 49

and, in trying for future events, bear in mind that it is
a far more trustworthy trial to set one two-year-old
to give another, a selling plater, twenty-one pounds or
two stone, with an old one in to lead them all the way,
than trying a young one with one or two horses of
three years old and upwards. My experience is that
if a two-year-old has been properly broken ; if, more-
over, he is well trained and good-tempered ; no matter
what his form is, provided he has shown any form at
all — that he is capable, say, of finishing first or second
in an ordinary selling race, for instance — he is the
animal you ought to depend upon for getting a true
line about your two-year-olds, because he is sure to
run up to his form provided you are not too hard on
him; whereas I believe older horses to be, as a rule,
untrustworthy for the purpose of trying young ones ;
first, because nine out of ten of them do not really do
their best at home — they w^ant the excitement of the
racecourse, the false starts, the shouts of the people,
to warm their blood and excite them. Secondly,
because the two-year-old, being generally the quickest
beginner, often chops the older horse, the boy riding
which probably has orders to come through, to make
a pace in fact, but his horse, chopped at the
start, and bustled the whole way to keep up with his
younger antagonist, may run a stone or 21 lb. under
his real form.

These are some of the drawbacks with which an
owner has to contend when trying his horse ; hence
the necessity of not being content with one trial.
Try the same horses over again at such weights as
you think will bring them together, and if there are
discrepancies in the two trials make a liberal allow-

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ance, but always against the animal you want to run
and back in a future race. Never make excuses for
a beaten animal without very strong reason ; it is
always best not to favour the animal whose merits
you wish to ascertain. I advise putting up the best
jockey on the trial or test horse to ensure a true-run
race, and if he wins the trial apparently with only
5 lb. in hand, allow 10 lb. for the beating, so as to
be on the safe side. If you want to back your
horses — and here let me emphatically repeat my
cautions as to the folly of plunging, for no sensible
man who has seen anything of the so-called ' glorious
uncertainties of the turf would encourage reckless
betting — you cannot have too much in hand ; and
remember when you enter an animal for a Maiden
Plate with the intention of backing it, you are, to use
a somewhat vulgar expression, supplying ' your own
goods,' so that it is partly your own fault if they
don't turn out trustworthy. An owner who bets
may be satisfied with himself, and with every one
connected with his stable, if three out of five of his
' good things ' come off.

Two or three months later in the season the early
two-year-olds begin to stand still, if they do not
deteriorate, as is often the case, generally from over
work. About Ascot time one hears of smart things
accomplished by youngsters at home, and they
generally come out successfully in such races as the
Queen's Stand Plate and All Aged Stakes at the
Eoyal Meeting ; but that is chiefly owing to the pre-
posterous conditions of these and similar events, and
the absurd amount of weight old horses are asked to
concede, especially as only four months later two-year-

SPEED AND STAMINA 51

olds have done extraordinary things with old horses,
Lady Elizabeth's defeat of Julius at seven pounds
being a very notable instance.

The best two-year-old I ever had was Kingwood,
shared jointly with Sir George Arthur. Though
backward at that age, before he went to Derby — where
he won the Champion Breeders' Foal Stakes from the
colt by Nuneham out of Eebecca — he could have
beaten any three-year-old in Sherrard's stable at even
weights five or six furlongs. It is true they were not
very good at that time. Unfortunately he caught a
severe illness from being moved into new stables
early in the following year, and developed symptoms
of roaring ; at any rate he made a noise which
destroyed all chance he might have had for the
Derby of that year ; indeed, I only allowed him to
be prepared for that race to please my trainer, who
entreated me not to scratch the horse, as I had
intended to do ; and w^hat with not having quite re-
covered from his illness, and this ill-timed training, he
lost all form that year. A horse with very excep-
tional speed is rarely at the same time gifted with
stamina, and I think that Kingwood had so much
speed that he would never have stayed really well
even if he had kept at his best ; but no doubt the
' whistling ' propensity that he developed prevented
his getting a mile with comfort, though it was a
good performance when he ' romped home ' in front
of Gay Hermit and St. Mirin for the Jubilee Cup,
seven furlongs, and Cannon remarked after the race
that the further he had gone the further he would
have won that day.

When a few lines back I spoke of not favouring

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the animal whose merits you wished to test, that did
not apply to the weight he would have to carry. It
is very bad policy to ask a horse to do too much,
whatever age he may be. In trying animals for the
first time, you must set about it gradually, as I have
pointed out. If in your batch of youngsters there is
one of exceptional merit, he will soon show his
superiority over the others. Wlien you once know
a horse's best form, and want to try him for a race
to see if he is in form, do not task him to his utmost
capacity. If you do, and the horse accomplishes the
task, you will probably find when he comes to run
you have left your race on the trial ground, and that
the horse has gone off since you tried him. If you
are training a man to lift weights, you do not make
him lift the heaviest that he can, or if you are train-
ing another to run a mile, you do not set him to
beat his own record just before the match comes off.
As with men, so with horses : train them up to the
moment that they have to do their best, and don't
allow them to tax their utmost strength or skill till
they are on the field of battle. Many a race that
ought to have been won has been left at home by
reason of injudicious trials.

After trying your two-year-olds, it is too probable
that you will find one or two apparently worthless,
and if you have really good reason to suppose that
this is the case, shoot them or give them away at
once. Never mind what your trainer says. Of
course there are trainers and trainers, men of differ-
ent capacity and influenced by very different motives.
Some dislike having obviously bad horses about them,
but the majority will most likely be apt to ask you
to keep the youngster a month or two longer in the

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vague and usually vain hope that he may (for no
good reason) suddenly begin to improve ; the fact
being that trainers hate to have an empty box or
stall. In London, if you lose your cat, the catsmeat-
man with whom you deal will make you a present
of another cat rather than lose part of his income, in
ceasing to supply you with the daily delicacy ; and a
bad horse costs the same as a good one to feed. Not
that I wish to imply that all trainers, or even trainers
as a class, are mercenary. Far from it. Most of
them spend every shilling they make on their horses
and stables ; but they have the idea that a worthless
two-year-old may be improved, and the dread that
another trainer might get hold of him and win a race
with him later on. The horse is such an uncertain
animal that this may happen, and then the trainer who
has lost the animal feels not only that he has missed
a chance, but that his rival has triumphed over
him.

In trying older horses you must also take care
that the pace is good from end to end, no matter
what the distance is. Satisfy yourself that your trial
horse is in form, and if he is fairly treated in public
handicaps, put him in the trial some 10 lb. or so below
the form he possesses ; but it is difficult to give advice
about trying horses generall}^, and it can only be
offered in a vague way. Use plenty of common
sense in thinking over the way your horses run, and
do not be prone to suspect that there is anything
wrong without good cause for doing so. I would
rather never own another horse than be suspicious
about every little thing for which I cannot account.
The remark just made ' as with men, so with horses,'
applies here. Some days an animal may not be quite

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up to tlie mark, though there is no visible sign of
anything being wrong with him till he is actually
called on to take part in the race, when he shows no
dash, a lack of energy, and can w^ith difficulty be
made to go up to his bit. Have you not often heard
a 2:ood player at billiards say, ' I can't make a stroke
to-day ' ? The champion bilHard players do not keep
on scoring up to their record every day that they
handle a cue ; neither do men in running, rowing,
jumping, at racquets, tennis, cricket, shooting, or any
sport, show their best form on all occasions.

It happens nevertheless that a horse is sometimes
blamed for a man's or a boy's fault-— I mean jockeys
occasionally display a want of candour with their
employers in hiding the fact, or even refusing to
admit, that they got badly off, or that they were shut
in, or rode their horses down, or waited too long, or
mistook the winning post. I have seen this careless
blunder committed more than once or twice, the
most notable case that occurs to me being a race at
Newmarket, in which a rider of some reputation, on
a horse belonging to the Duke of Westminster,
thought the finish was at the Eowley Mile Post, and
allowed an animal of General Owen Williams's to beat
him a head at the real post, the winner being hard
ridden, and the second horse pulling his rider out of
the saddle.

If you have a horse engaged in an important
handicap, on which betting takes place some time
prior to the date of the race, do not be in a hurry to
get your money on before he has stood the ordeal of
a trial, though if you mean to back him to win a nice
stake should he come through his task satisfactorily,

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there would be no harm in putting moderate sums
on the two or three horses you think are the most
dangerous, provided you get good prices. It is irri-
tating no doubt, but at the same time it is useless to
be annoyed if the public jump on and forestall you,
and you must console yourself with the knowledge
that they act at their own risk, chancing whether the
horse is in form, whether you intend to run him, and
a variety of things that may make them lose their
money. If, however, you have no intention of run-
ning a horse after you have accepted with him and
he is still in the betting, it is only fair on the public
(who really provide much of the sinews of war, as
their entrance money to racecourses supplies the
added money to the races for which you run) to
scratch him at the earliest opportunity.

Many owners not seldom try to deceive the lads
who ride horses in trials with reofard to their weioht.
I have two saddles now, both made to look exactly
alike, one weighing 7 lb. and the other 14 lb., but I
have rarely used them. In the first place they ouoht
not to be touched by any one but the trainer or your-
self, which causes a good deal of inconvenience, and
in the second place the riders feel that you distrust
them, and then they think they have the right to
find out in the best way they can secrets that are
really the property of their masters. One day at
one of the dinners of Mr. Leopold de Eothschild, that
form such a dehghtful feature of life at Newmarket,
otherwise always dull but for the hospitality of one's
friends, we were discussing our trials, and the wonder-
ful knowledge possessed by the touts concerning them,
when Captain Machell remarked, ' No one can know

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the weights my horses carry. I have my own saddles,
and I weigh the jockeys without them ; then they go
out and have to get into the saddles they find on the
horses they are told to ride ; ' and then in the most
amusing way he added, 'All the same one day I
heard one of the lads say to the others, " Mine has
got no chance this time, I've got old Sal.'' ' This was
the heaviest saddle in the stable ; by some mysterious
means the boys all knew it. I am sure Captain
Machell will not mind my telling this story, more
especially as I know no man who can keep his trials
so dark, a fact which is proved by the many clever
coups at good prices he has brought off, extending
over a period of a quarter of a century, a just
reward to the immense pains he has always taken
with his stable.

Wliilst on the subject I may as well say a
few words about the touts that infest l^ewmarket.
Nearly all of them are in continual correspondence
with the sporting papers. They make a good in-
come and work hard for it ; they know nearly every
horse in training at Newmarket, readily recognise
them in their clothes, and by their style of galloping.
I have read many letters written by a tout whose
name, however, I was never permitted to see, and
they are very cleverly expressed. He always has a
decided opinion about the merits of horses, and is
very frequently right. But what deceives him has
often deceived me. The horse that goes the best
at exercise, freely and boldly, tearing along the
gallop, fighting for his bit, the animal that is gene-
rally picked out by all the onlookers to be the best
goer, in my experience has always proved to be a

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non-stayer wlien it came to racing. I have rarely
profited by witnessing the exercise done by horses a
few mornings before an important race. It may be
because I am not a good judge of a horse galloping.
Once, however, it stood me in good stead. The
morning before the Cambridgeshire of 1876, I saw
Eosebery go as I never saw any horse go before,
and I invested a good sum of money on him that
day, having previously backed him after he had
won the long race a fortnight before. Of my own
horses, Kingwood was the laziest and worst goer at
exercise it is possible to imagine, lolloping along
with head down in a wretchedly careless fashion,
which drew forth the remark from Tom Jennings,
sen., one day : ' No one would imagine that horse
was a good one to see him go.' Yet he was a good
horse ; and it was lucky for Ormonde that I won a
race with Kingwood on the Tuesday of the July
week of 1887, instead of saving him to oppose the
Derby winner, who would have had to give him
7 lb., for Whitefriar, who was more than a stone
worse, woke up the great horse in this race, as the
spur marks on his sides showed after it was over,
and as his rider, Tom Cannon, than whom there is
no finer judge, himself admitted. Personally, I am
glad I did not run. I could not have backed my
horse freely, and should have been sorry to have
spoilt Ormonde's unbeaten record, when perhaps
he was not in his best form.

II.

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CHAPTEE III

RACE-GOERS AND THE RING

I HAVE never been able to understand why ready-
money betting is so sternly frowned upon by the
Legislature which permits, or at any rate winks at,
betting on a larger scale — the method of betting, that
is to say, that most of us practise, notwithstanding
our knowledge of the fact that in the long run the
ring will almost certainly have the best of us. Men
will bet, and do so in every quarter of the globe,
though no doubt there are powerful arguments to be
used against its practice. As a matter of ^fact, how-
ever, we know that betting is recognised, partly it
may be because no Acts of Parliament could possibly
put it down. The attempt to do so in France lately
was an absurd and mischievous failure, the only effect
of which was to bring M. Goblet's name into derision.
To bet ready-money is to pay on the spot for what
you buy, and men who bet thus cannot get out of
their depth. A man takes to a racecourse as much
as he can afford to lose, and the sum being lost (as it
probably soon is) there is an end ; but when a man
has a book and a pencil, credit with the Eing, and a
fatuous belief that his luck, as he calls it, is sure to
change, disaster is likely to follow. Men who have
not much money entertain a keen appreciation of
hard cash. If they had to pay they would be well
content to bet five shillings, ten, or a sovereign ; but

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now tliey bet twenty times the amount because it is
so easy to write a bet down (to ' bet on the nod ' is
the slang phrase for it) ; if they lose it to go double or
quits and so on till they grow quite reckless ; then comes
Monday ; funds must somehow or other be procured
or they w^ill not be able to bet again, or go about
racing unless they can square the bookmaker not to
make a fuss.

Many years ago, a gentleman had had a bad
week — had, in fact, lost several thousands. He asked
a friend of mine what would win the next race, and
strangely enough he applied to the right quarter.
The informant was thanked, with the remark, how-
ever, that it wasn't much use to him now. ' What
do you mean,' exclaimed my friend, ' haven't you got
a pencil ? If not, I'll lend you mine.' The hint was
taken, and the man got back his losses on the week ;
but I ask my reader to imagine what his position
would have been if this horse, which started an even
money chance, had not won ! If the loser despaired
of paying his losses before the race, what chance
would he have had of paying them when they were
nearly doubled ? It is related of a young gentleman
that some years ago, after having had a disastrous
week at Goodwood, he relieved his mind by throwing
his betting-book into the sea. He had lost heavily ;
but the book was a disagreeable reminder, and over-
board it went — and the loser's honour and honesty
with it. Again, a man I knew had had a very bad
time during the Sussex fortnight, and on the Friday
of Lewes races he confided to a friend of his that he
could not settle on Monday. She — his confidante was
a woman — failed to keep the secret, and it came to

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the ears of a prominent bookmaker. The loser had a
horse running in a selling handicap on Saturday, and
before the race there was a consultation amongst the
leading bookmakers as to whether they would stand
him any longer. ' Oh, give him a chance ! ' said one
of them, who was the highest bettor and best gambler
of the lot. Seven and eight to one in hundreds was
booked several times by the owner of the animal,
and, after a desperate race, it got home a head.
Carelessly tossing his books to a friend to add up, he
went to see his jockey weighed in. His winnings
amounted to some seven thousand pounds ; but, in-
stead of being thankful for his escape from disappear-
ing from a racecourse disgraced for ever, he actually
lamented that he was still five hundred pounds out
on the fortnight. ' Sell everything you have in the
world rather than not pay that five hundred on
Monday,' was my humble advice to him after such a
desperately narrow escape.

For the sake of the more inexperienced racegoers
I may well insert in this place some caution against
robbers and familiar schemes of robbery practised
on the course. Has my reader ever heard of the
* Haymarket division ' that frequent racecourses,
generally in gangs of three or four, and are known
by such nicknames as ' the Glider ' (gained from the
velocity with which the man thus distinguished steals
through the betting ring after hearing the prices of
the horses, on his way to some ready-money book-
maker outside who has not been posted as to market
movements), 'the Blind Boy,' and other nicknames
and aliases too numerous to repeat ?

To show my readers what their ' business ' is on

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a racecourse I will relate an actual — and far from
uncommon — experience ; indeed, this is the usual
method of procedure. Some years ago a gentleman
was at the end of the lawn at Goodwood, and saw
three of the division standing near some one whom
they had spotted as a likely victim. Just as the
numbers went up for a race, a fourth man came
running up and said, ' Now then, look sharp with
your money, I've got a good thing this time ; Lord
Falmouth has told me to put him two hundred on
his mare. He says she can't be beaten.' They then
began to fumble in their pockets and produced notes
(flash ones of course), which they gave to the speaker,
who turned to the ' mug,' as their phrase would have
run, and remarked : ' I think, sir, you ought to have
a fiver or a tenner on this good thing. I've got it
straight from the stable, and you know they don't
make mistakes ! ' Of course there was always the
chance that the intended victim mis^ht know that Lord
Falmouth did not bet, or at any rate might have the
wit to see that his confidences could never have been
extended to such a quarter; but the rogue's great art
consists in picking out people who are stupid enough
to credit his vulgar and ridiculous assertions. Such
an adviser is probably a thief, who, if he cannot
extricate money from a pocket, will try for a scarf-
pin or watch, his method being to touch the stranger
on one side, so as to cause him to look round that
way, whilst he plunders him by a dexterous snatch
from its opposite direction. Another method of the
thieves is to approach their intended victim with a
race-card held in both hands in front of them, which
they pretend to be intently studying ; this they hold

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high, enough to enable them to run to all appearance
accidentally against the man's collar. The card con-
ceals the hand that goes up under it and steals the
pin, and with a hasty apology they hurry on before
the loser has had time to discover what has happened.

Many years ago a gentleman appeared on a race-
course with a very valuable pin rather prominently
stuck in his scarf. Two people noticed the thieves
very busy round this man, watched them, saw one of
them approaching him with his race-card in the way
I have described, and cannon against him ; but they
were much amused to see that instead of the pin
disappearing a sort of upheaving of the scarf was all
that had taken place. The wearer, who was well
acquainted with racecourses, had taken care to have
his pin made with a sort of screw, which defied the
quick professional snatch to remove it.

Fifteen years ago a little man used to attend
racecourses, who was called the King of the Thieves,
so clever was he at his business. He had been
pointed out to many race-goers and was aware of
the fact, so much so that whilst taking a watch out
of a man's pocket in Tattersall's Eing close under
the Stewards' Stand at Warwick, whilst a race was
being run, he could not help looking up at Sir
Charles Eushout, who knew him by sight, and seeing
that he was observed put the watch back and ' made
tracks' at once. Sir Charles told me this story
himself. It is not difficult to recognise the thieves^
from the restlessness of their eyes, which never keep
still. The adroitness which some of them display is
certainly remarkable, worthy indeed of a better
cause. I suppose that familiarity with the race-

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course has made me wary and tolerably well able
to take care of myself, but on three or four occasions
I have been robbed ; and I am not sure I did not
once compound a felony by paying 201. to have a
valuable cat's-eye pin restored to me after it had been
stolen while I was intent on doing a commission for a
friend at York. Not long since a lady told me that
she was standing on the steps of the Grand Stand at
Epsom while her husband fetched a fly. She had
a small hand-bag at her wrist, and the clasp of this
a thief, as he rapidly passed, opened with his finger
and thumb, took out her purse, and disappeared in
the crowd — all the work of a few seconds, and under
her very eyes. Before she had time to recover her
astonishment the man had gone. The year before
last, also at the back of the Epsom stand, a man took
Sir Charles Eussell's watch, and dodged in and out
of the many vehicles waiting for fares, pursued by
Sir Charles Eussell, mildly exclaiming : ' Stop thief,
stop thief ! ' He passed close to me, but too quickly
for me to stop him, and apparently straight into the
arms of a big pohceman who had emerged from
behind a fly. The constable wildly clasped his arms
round his own fat body as the thief glided under his
embrace, only, however, to be secured a little further
on by two more of the force.

Space will not permit me to dwell on all the
different modes of gaining a living honestly or dis-
honestly on a racecourse, on the eloquence, for
instance, of the gentleman who implores you with a
wink to ' give him a start ' and buy the purse he has —
the inexperienced might suppose — just put three half-
crowns into before your eyes, for a third of that sum.

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There is again the rogue who wants to bet you that
you can't find the picture card out of three placed on
the ground, he having shown it to you several times
before turning them face downwards ; but it is only
the very young and foolish who are swindled, in spite
of the fact that a shabby-genteel person standing by
wins a sovereign several times running, Avhich is paid
apparently with pleasure by the man fingering the
cards. The quasi-winner would be described as a
' Bonnet ' by peo23le who understand the mysteries of
the game, which has taken the place of the thimbles
and the pea — ' thimblerigging ' as it was called. Then
there is the sporting prophet, the tipster, who throws
his coat on the ground in the course the moment a
race is over, shrieks out ' 'Ere, 'ere, got it again ;
every winner to-day ! ' and when a crowd has collected
round him wants to bet his audience fabulous sums
that he has given all previous winners, and that, in an
envelope he is willing to sell to any or all of them for
sixpence, there is a certain winner at a long price for
them that very afternoon. ' Kever mind 'ow I gets the
tip, but it's straight from the stable.' What curious
things are sold to eat and drink too ! There are the
vendors of ' hokey-jDokey,' a kind of Neapolitan ice
or ' tutti frutti,' wrapped in silver paper and sold for
a penny ; the purveyors of fizzing sherbet, and
lemonade, wheelino^ about their huo^e block of ice
surrounded with lemons ; the man with a basketful
of lobsters, whose cry is ' champions a bob ; ' the
sellers of oranges, apples and nuts ; of fried fish,
whelks and periwinkles ; and on some racecourses,
particularly at York, a roaring trade is done in herb
beer at a penny a glass, which I expect contains

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something a little stronger than a mere decoction of
herbs. There is a Jew fruit-seller, whom I have
known for years, who has a stall in the saddling
paddock at Goodwood, Ascot, Epsom, and all the
principal racecourses except at Newmarket, who always
has the best fruit procurable in the market at the
moment. He is welcomed by the jockeys, with whom
he is very popular. They patronise him largely, and
seem to have the run of his stall for nothing, though,
no doubt, as he does a little mild betting, they often
tell him what they fancy for a coming race as he
hands them a bunch of grapes or a bag of cherries.

One gang of rascals are called 'Lumberers,' or
' the Boys.' They are identical with the Haymarket
division, and I will relate a story about them to give
some idea of their mode of living, and of the manner
in which they plunder the unwary. A very short
time ago, a young gentleman, an officer in the army,
and the son of a poor clergyman, went to stay for a
few days at the Grand Hotel. Some of ' the Boys '
managed to scrape an acquaintanceship with him,
probably at the bar over a drink. They were well
dressed, and there was nothing in their appearance to
denote that they were swindlers. A game of cards
was proposed, and this young man was foolish enough
to invite them up to his rooms to play there. At
the end of the evening he had lost 80/. to them, and
expressed his regret that at the moment he w^as quite
unable to pay them. They begged him not to put
himself out in the least, but to pay when it was
convenient, and invited him to go to Sandown races
the next day. Here they told him that they did not
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their peculiar knowledge and special sources of infor-
mation, would not lay them the proper price, but that
all he had to do was to go into the ring to Fry, one of
the principal bookmakers, give him his card, and back
certain horses for them and himself in the various
races set down for decision on the day's card. This
he accordingly did ; the result was that after the last
race he was a loser to Fry of about 600Z. On seek-
ing his companions he found that they had ' made
tracks,' and only then did it flash across him that he
had been duped. At first, Fry, on hearing that he
could not pay, was inclined to write to his colonel,
but on ascertaining the truth of the whole business
he willingly consented to a meeting with the father
of the victim at their solicitor's office, and, to his
credit be it said, accepted without any demur what-
ever they could afford to ofier him.

Cases like this occur every day in London, Paris,
and other large cities. It is only the ' confidence
trick ' practised over and over again in a variety of
different ways, and no amount of publicity or warn-
ing apparently has any deterrent effect on some
foolish and credulous people, who indeed seem born
to be swindled !

After a long day's racing, with perhaps a tedious
journey following, the most delightful place to have
a late dinner at is, to my mind, the Beefsteak Club,
situated on the second floor, partly over Toole's
Theatre, in King William Street. Here, if you are
fortunate enough to be a member, you hear the best
conversation in London, and meet the principal men
of letters and artists of the day. Whilst eating your
dinner or smoking a cigar at the long table, round

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wliicli all are gatliered together, you listen to the
anecdotes so amusingly told by Mr. Sala, of marvel-
lous experience and memory ; to tlie quick wit and
repartee of Mr. Craigie, capped or started by a flash
from the ever ready Mr. F. C. Burnand ; to the remi-
niscences of Mr. Montagu Williams as an advocate ;
whilst a laugh from the courteous Sir Henr}^ de Bathe
in the chair at the end of the table tells you that
Mr. Corney Grain has made one of his ready jokes.
Here you may meet Mr. Archie Wortley, as famous as
a shot as he is in depicting grouse- driving and other
sporting subjects with his brush ; Mr. Leslie Ward,
whose caricatures signed ' Spy ' are so well known to
the world ; Mr. Alfred Watson, otherwise ' Eapier,'
who is relating the last story of natural history sent
him by one of the correspondents of the journal he
edits. The sarcastic comments of Mr. Smalley, a con-
tributor to the Tribune, give a flavour to the anecdotes
told. There are hosts of other celebrities who tend to
make the evening amusing. The Duke of Beaufort
is likely to be at table, and Prince SoltykofF receives
congratulations on the success of one of his horses
and gives his opinion about events to be decided.
Dinner indeed is often prolonged till some of the few
actors who belong to the Club come in to supper —
Mr. John Hare, with accounts which everyone is glad
to hear of another success ; Mr. Arthur Cecil, with
an appetite provoked by the evening's work ; possibly
Mr. Henry Irving, or it may be the always popular
' Johnny Toole ' as everybody calls him. What per-
hajDS strikes one most of all is the perfect harmony and
good fellowship that exist in the club, which you enter
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under an open doorway cut in an old English wood
screen, when you find yourself in a long, lofty room
hung with Hogarth's prints. There is no ceiling, so
that the smoke quickly ascends to the fine roof.
The dining table is at the end of the room nearest
the entrance to the kitchen, and at the other end are
writing tables, armchairs, and shelves well stocked
with books on each side of a large fireplace, and
there is a Sheraton sideboard covered with silver
cups and bowls, the gifts of members of the club.

In this discursive chapter I may pay a just
tribute to the efforts of sporting writers who keep
the public informed of what goes on in the racing
world. As a rule, their description of what takes
place in races is accurate in the extreme. Often
have I stood by them whilst a race was being run
and admired their quickness and accuracy of
perception. The one who dictates to the shorthand
writer stands in the most prominent place, and, look-
ing through his glasses, describes exactly how the
horses are running, what jumps off with the lead,
followed by so-and-so, &c. While listening to the
details of the race and following it with one's glasses,
it is amusing to ' read between the lines ' as the horses
near the winning post, and the excitement reaches
its highest. The voice of the speaker grows more
intense as he proclaims the fact that the favourite
takes the lead, and then adds, ' Two ponies to one on
him,' which must somewhat distract the scribe were
he not accustomed to such digressions. As a rule,
the account of the race is admirable, and the com-
ments on it in the article heading the return of the
actual races are tempered with justice and leniency
for those jockeys who have got off badly — made

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too much use of their horse or not enough — who
have called on them too soon or not soon enough,
who have, m short, appeared not to have ridden as
well as their backers (how much is contained in the
word !) could have wished. We are none of us per-
fect in this world, and, bearing in mind that the
winning post is a very tiny object compared to the
distance a horse has to traverse in a race, be it
a five-furlong race, a mile, or upwards, on-lookers
ought to be very charitable in their remarks about
the riding of those who have all the hard work, who
may have been disappointed in the race, or have
been given wrong orders, or who may have lost their
heads in their over-anxiety to win, or failed from a
variety of causes not quite their fault.

Take it as a whole, the sporting press is greatly
to be commended for its integrity, and its wish to
study the interests of the racing community. It is
true there are one or two black sheep among them.
One of them who writes for a daily journal has
especially distinguished himself for showing private
spite, and on one or two occasions has been
taken to task for doing so ; but as a rule sporting
writers do their work well. I am not flattering them,
and have, indeed, no intention of flattering anybody,
but when unable to be present on a racecourse I have
always read the returns of a day's racing with interest
and attention, and without speaking disparagingly of
other papers, I pay a well-deserved tribute of praise
to the description of races in the special edition of
the Evening Standard^ so dear to the stay-at-home
lovers of racing ; the Sportsman^ Sporting Life^ and
Daily Telegraph are all good, and I especially com-
mend my readers to the Monday sporting article in the

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last journal, written by Hotspur. It is always sound
and to the point, and the writer appears to be imbued
with more common sense and fairness than falls to
the lot of most racing men. I invariably cut out the
returns of the day's racing from the Daily Telegraph
and paste the column in my ' Weekly Turf Guide,'
for reference during the week's racing, and I find
the plan most useful.

In the midst of Lord Falmouth's victorious racing
career Lord Eosebery, from that spirit of humour
which he so happily possesses, had a hundred forms
printed, beginning, 'My dear Falmouth, allow me
once again to congratulate you on the success of

your horse in another classic race,' &c. &c.,

and he used to fill in these forms with the animal's
name and that of the race. One day Lord Falmouth
retaliated on him and sent him one of his own forms
back again with 'Eosebery' substituted for 'Falmouth,'
and Kermesse for the horse that had been sent him.
It was just after Lord Eosebery's Kermesse had beaten
Lord Falmouth's own mare Dutch Oven, I think, in the
Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. It is related of Lord
Falmouth in his younger days, when he used to bet,
that on returning from a day's racing a friend asked
him what he had done. ' I'm quits on the day,' was
the triumphant reply. ' You mean by that,' said the
friend, ' that you are glad when you are quits?' And
when Lord Falmouth replied in the afiirmative, his
friend suggested that there was a far easier way
of being quits on a day's racing without trouble or
annoyance — ' by not betting at all.' Lord Falmouth
said naively that he had never looked at it in that
light before, and is supposed to have given up
betting from that moment.

CHAPTEE TV

HANDICAPPING

It would be hard to over-estimate the difficulties of
making a perfect handicap, for the adjuster of its
weights can only go on form, and form varies from
day to day according to a great variety of circum-
stances— the fitness of the horse, the competence of
its jockey, the luck of the race, and so forth. A
handicapper's task is to apportion the weights with
such exactness that all the horses have precisely
equal chances, and, all being well, ought to run a
dead heat. This cannot be done by a study, however
careful, of the calendar of races past ; for a horse that
wins by half a length may have five pounds in hand, or
he may have five-and-twenty, and so the ideal handi-
capper ought to have the eyes of Argus and to be in
several places at once. He should, however, put him-
self in the position of the owner of one or more of the
animals engaged, who, the moment he sees the weights,
naturally looks to find out how his horse has been
treated with others that he has run with. If his
animal is handicapped on fair terms with them he has
not much to complain of, as if he does not consider
his horse well in, the others that he has run with
must be in the same condition ; but if all the owners
of these horses complain, the handicapper may pretty
well take it for granted that he has not succeeded in
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handicap is the fact of its obtaining a good accept-
ance. His first endeavour should be to please, that
is to say to satisfy, or at any rate not to offend, by
what may be construed into undue severity, the
owners of animals that may be called ' public horses,'
or those whose merits are well known from their
having constantly run up in or won races ; and these
are the animals that will be the easiest for him to
estimate correctly. He must use great discrimination
in taking off weight from horses that have lately run
badly and that have shown a loss of form, and also in
putting horses higher up in the handicap than he
would have done owing to their recent improvement.
Horses sometimes come on many pounds in a few
weeks, occasionally they improve two stone ; on the
other hand, horses that lose their form for no
obvious reason, such as illness, unsoundness, &c.,
rarely recover it. A good handicapper, therefore,
ought to be a first-class judge of the make and shape
of a racehorse, and he ought also to be a good judge
of whether a horse appears trained or not ; and these
good judges are very few and far between. I could
count them on my fingers, and still have room for
others to come.

A man who offers himself for the post of public
handicapper does so with the knowledge that it is
utterly impossible to please everybody. His first
care is not to offend owners of racehorses, and this
is what he is in very many cases absolutely certain
to do. "When a handicap appears, after ascertaining
his horse's weight, the owner, as already remarked,
at once looks to see how his animal is treated with
others that he has run with, and though at the first

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glimpse lie may have been well satisfied with the
weight allotted to him he will almost assuredly come
upon 'other animals that seem to him to be ' thrown
in.' One thing which handicappers certainly are apt
to overlook is the necessity of considering the most
recent form of horses that have met shortly before
their work appears. If a handicapper has to be hard
on a horse that has lately exhibited great improve-
ment, his latest form as compared with his earliest
efforts is an answer to the question of the unreason-
ably disappointed owner ' Why have you put such a
fearful weight on my horse ? ' If an animal has won
a race in such easy style that it is difiicult to estimate
how much he had in hand, the adjuster of weights
ought not to be called to account if he seems to have
treated that animal rather harshly in handicapping
him with the second or third that followed him home
in his winning race. I have known animals that keep
on winning by a head or a neck or half a length, ap-
parently ' all out.' In the next handicap that appears
they have to carry 3, 4, or 5 lb. for the beating,
and they win again. Few such horses are owners
fortunate enough to possess, but they are the ones
that pay their hay and corn bill with a good balance
in hand if placed judiciously and backed on the
ascending scale. I was once lucky enough to possess
such a horse. Sutler, who, although he cost me a
good deal of money during the first twelve months
that he carried my colours, amply repaid me by
winning eight races off the reel, as I have stated else-
where.

This is one of the reasons why a competent handi-
capper must of necessity be a good judge of racing

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and of horses, and be possessed of good sight to see
for himself. If he has to ascertain from onlookers
what a horse has done in a race he is sure to make
bad handicaps, so different are the views that people
entertain with regard to races they have seen. I
recollect Fordham riding Out of Bounds in the
Eowley Mile Nursery. She carried top weight,
8 St. 2 lb., I think. Fordham never moved on her,
and she won a short head. I had my doubts about
her winning on account of his sitting so still, a very
unusual occurrence with him when the animal he was
riding was winning easily, and after the race I said
so to her owner, Mr. Crawford. ' I'll ask Fordham,'
he replied, and a few minutes after he came back
with the answer that ' he couldn't have won an inch
farther to save his life.' The mare was dying away
in his hands. What better proof than this could be
advanced to prove that a handicapper should know
all about the intricate details of racing, details which
are only to be learnt by a livelong study of men,
horses, and racecourses.

Admiral Ecus was a marvellously good handi-
capper. He paid great attention to the finish of a
race ; noted where he thought an animal was second
or third best, having been eased when pursuit of the
winner was hopeless, and he could even handicap the
first four or five in a race so correctly that at times
the result was really wonderful ; but he destroyed
many of his handicaps by what may be described as
' gambling about them.' I do not mean by betting.
All his betting was insignificant, and he scarcely ever
made a bet on his own handicaps, which were to him
a labour of love, as he never received any remunera-

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tion for the work he so well accomplished. But what
he used to do was this : If an animal had been ' on
the shelf ' for some time from having ' had a leg,' or
developed some unsoundness, if called on to handicap
him, after making inquiries as to whether the animal
really had been unsound (and sometimes, I regret to
say, he was misinformed on purpose), he would put
a ridiculously light weight on it, and chance its
having recovered more than half its form. Of course
he obtained better acceptances, as the light weight
placed on their animals induced owners to accept
and train them as best they could, on the off-chance
— generally a very forlorn one — of their standing a
preparation.

During the many years he handicapped for all
the important races he was occasionally caught, a
notable instance being when Sutton, a tamed loose
four-year-old carrying 5 st. 13 lb., ably patched up
by Mr. Mannington, the eminent veterinary surgeon,
won the Cambridgeshire of 1875, and the year before
that he was nearly done by the Truth gelding, carry-
ing the same weight, in the Cesarewitch, as the
unsexed one was only beaten a neck or half a length
by Aventuriere. Since the Admiral's death there have
only been two occasions on which ' chucked-in old
horses ' have carried off these races. Hackness was
one, when she cantered home for the Cambridgeshire
of 1882, with 6 st. 4 lb. on her back, and in 1889
Primrose Day, the same age and sex, was another.
She trotted in for the Cesarewitch with only 6 st. 1 lb.
Mr. Edward Weatherby succeeded Admiral Eous as
the Jockey Club handicapper, and his work was as
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probably to the pressure of the Club business, he
now and then made frightful mistakes, which were
always most courteously acknowledged, however, and
rectified on the first available occasion. The worry
of the business induced him to give it up after some
years, though, happily, he continues in the place
which he has filled with so much dignity and credit
to himself since the retirement of his father.

A clever way of making a handicap and of in-
ducing good acceptances and large fields, is one that
Mr. Dorling, Clerk of the Course of Epsom and
Brio-hton, has availed himself of when the chance has
arisen. It is by making what is called a ' flattering
handicap ; ' but to do this the handicapper must have
a horse amongst the entries submitted to him of such
high class that he can begin his task by allotting to
him an almost impossible top weight. Some of my
readers may exclaim ' But this would not be fair on
the horse ? ' My answer to that is, that results have
shown it is almost impossible to calculate what horses
are capable of carrying and winning with on such
easy courses as Epsom and Brighton, provided they
have perfect shoulders and true action to come down
the hill with. Having placed the best horse at the
top of his handicap with a very heavy weight on, he
then proceeds to select the next best animal from
amongst the entries ; this one may be 18 lb. or 21 lb.
inferior to the first class horse. If therefore he puts
9 St. 10 lb. on the top weight, the second one would
have 8 st. 6 lb., or 8 st. 3 lb., leaving a great difierence
between the two. But it is from 8 stone down to
6 St. 7 lb. that the ' flattery ' comes in, and many an
owner who is not quite conversant with this mode of

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treatment, is deliglited when he sees his horse * let
off' as he fondly thinks, with 7 st. 7 lb. or 7 stone,
having looked for his appearance amongst the 8 stone
division. As a rule, the result of this particular kind
of handicapping is that the race falls to one of the
middle-weight lot between 6 st. 12 lb. and 8 stone,
and the top weight and the bottom weights are not
well in. Messrs. Frail, who preside over admirably
conducted meetings at Windsor, Manchester, and
Northampton, and are very good handicappers, often
pursue the same method when they have bad horses
to deal with. I recollect winning a race with Plan-
tagenet at Windsor, in the summer of 1886. Judge
Clark gave it a head between each of the first four-
horses, and Archer, who finished fourth on Cairo on
the inside of the course, told me he thought he had
just won the race. It was one of the finest finishes I
ever saw, and was a tribute to the art of the handi-
capper. Mr. Ford, junior, who has done so much
towards the success of the Lincoln, Nottingham, and
Derby meetings, hardly ever makes a bad handicap,
and much depends on the way he adjusts the weights
for the first important handicap of the year, the
Lincolnshire — as, should he let off some animal too
lightly, all the spring handicaps might be spoilt by
its winning this race in a canter, and carrying the
penalty successfully in the Newmarket handicaps.
City and Suburban, and Metropolitan at Epsom.

On the retirement of Mr. Edward Weatherby, an
advertisement for a handicapper was put in the
Sheet Calendar, by the Stewards of the Jockey Club,
and amongst others. Major Egerton applied for the
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successful in pleasing owners of horses, and in 1889
there was quite an outcry against the mistakes he
made. I consider he brought this on himself by
accepting too much work from Clerks of Courses all
over the kingdom. With so much on hand it was
quite impossible to do justice to the handicaps it
was his duty to make for Newmarket, Ascot, and
Epsom, not to mention others which did not come
within the sphere of his work as official handicapper
to the Club. He often complained that the names of
horses were sent him too late before the day he had
to send up the handicaps for publication, but the
answer to that is, ' Why accept more than you can
do?' and with such a remuneration as the handi-
capper receives, surely he could have done what
counsel do to get up their cases, viz. employ someone
(a devil is the name, I believe) to write down the
names of horses in order according to their ages, or
it would not require much knowledge to pick out
the best ones, and put them at the top of the list,
handicapping them all at weight for age, with a
blank space left on the right hand side of tlie weights
to make the real handicap with. If a man is master
of his art, and knows form well, he could make a
good handicap by this help in a very few minutes.

Another thing that tells against Major Egerton as
a good handicapper is that he has the misfortune to
be short-sighted, and one in his position ought to be
gifted with a better pair of eyes than most people
possess. He has a habit at Newmarket of standing
close to the judge's box to see a race, and I defy any
man to judge correctly what has occurred in a race
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not prohibitive ones, attached to the winners. Short
handicaps ruin good horses. Horses would last
longer in training if they were not constantly called
on to give a lot of weight away. What is a man to do
with a good five-furlong handicap horse ? He has to
run him constantly in handicaps, always giving away
from two stone to three stone, always struggling, if the
handicap is at all a good one, to catch the light
weights that sail away from the start so easily in
front of him, and the horse is always called on by
his jockey at the finish of a race. Do you think a
horse doesn't know what is coming — that, however
game he is, he doesn't anticipate the identical moment
when he will feel himself squeezed, then driven by
the hands, the sharp prick of the spur, and alas too
frequently the crack of the whip often ' in the middle
of his stride ' ; and all this when he is straining every
nerve, when he himself is as excited as the yelling
backers and layers ? I believe the rule which I was
instrumental in passing ten or twelve years ago, doing
away with half-mile races altogether, has helped to
make jockeys less ready to ride from pillar to post,
and has done good to horses generally. Nothing
upsets a horse's nervous system so much as being
constantly jumped ofi" in false starts, which in the
days of half-mile races were far more frequent than
now, although at the present time in large fields,
particularly in nurseries, long delays at the post must
constantly occur owing to the fractiousness of some
animals and I fear very often of some jockeys.

Many years ago the following story was related.
A well-known commissioner and owner of racehorses,
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book of his own. One day lie lost it, and was
miserable in consequence, complaining that he dared
not bet without his ' book of knowledge ' to refer to.
Time went on, and at last the book was discovered.
It was found in a dead man's pocket at the bottom of
the Thames. We did not hear much of that book
afterwards !

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CHAPTEE V

ox BREEDING AXD TRAIXING

Although it is said that there is no royal road to the
breeding of a good racehorse, still, by taking certain
precautions, and paying great attention to the rearing
and feeding of the young stock, there can be no
doubt that much can be done. If any breeder,
whether private or public, possesses a well-bred
young mare, good and sound in every particular, his
best policy is to secure the services of the best horse
he can, selecting one whose blood is likely to ' nick,*
in hopes that the sire may transmit some of his own
excellence and known high qualities to his progeny.

The mare, during pregnancy, should be well fed
with corn twice a day, and linseed mashes twice a
week, the linseed j^i'operly boiled and simmered for
an hour and a half, and then poured on to the mash,
which should consist of equal proportions of crushed
oats and bran. This should be allowed to stand for
two hours before feeding, and should always be given
at night, the last feed of the day. The best days for
this are perhaps Wednesday and Saturday. During
the daytime the mare does best if turned out in good
rich pasture land. By pursuing this system in regard
to the management of the mare, the foal at birth is
likely to be a strong one. ISTo doubt the majority of
the weeds we see bred every year throughout the
country — creatures useless for racing purposes — are

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the result of carelessness and ignorance in the treat-
ment of the dam.

As the time approaches for the mare to give birth
to the foal she requires close watching, for mares
seldom foal on the exact day the offspring is expected ;
and when the moment arrives the stud-groom in
charge will do best to allow nature to take pretty
much her own course, and not to try, as grooms too
often do, to hurry the operation by violent measures.

After getting through the foaling successfully,
the dam and its offspring should be left in quiet for a
couple of hours ; then a nice warm mash, to be tried
with some chilled water, should be given to the mare,
and they should be again left alone for a time. Then,
if the foal makes ineffectual efforts to suck its dam,
the stud-groom may well assist at first — by moisten-
ing the teats with the dam's own milk, and then by
assisting the foal to reach them. After this the mare
and foal will be of very little trouble, care being
taken always to pursue the system of feeding the
dam as heretofore, and at all times, if the weather is
fine and suitable, after about ten days or a fortnight,
the pair should be turned out to grass, as before the
foaling ; but if this treatment be found insufficient to
produce enough milk for the foal, then resort may be
had to cow's milk. That of the Alderney is the best.
With a little management and trouble the foal can
easily be induced to take a pint of this twice a day,
and in addition to the dam's own milk that quantity
will be found quite sufficient.

About six or seven weeks after birth, the foal,
from intuition, will begin to feed a little of its own
accord, and then a handful of crushed oats should be

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placed in a low manger by the side of the dam while
she is feeding ; or, perhaps better still, the dam
should always be fed from a low manger, so arranged
that the foal can feed with her, and by this means it
will soon learn to satisfy its appetite. As it begins
to feed of its own accord, it should be fed two or
three times a day with crushed oats, mixed with a
little bean-meal in small quantities ; a little cut green
meat may also be added, and this system is to be
recommended up to the time of weaning, usually
about six or seven months after birth, at which period
the foal will have learnt to feed well alone.

As the little creature grows older, the same food,
in such increased quantities as are found to satisfy
its appetite, should be provided, with the addition of
a little linseed mash twice a week, as recommended
in the feeding of the mare. Foals at this time will
not be likely to eat more than a quarter of a pailful.
A few carrots or cut green meat may be mixed with
the mash, and also the other feeds during the day.

It often happens that the foals after weaning be-
come unthrifty, staring in their coats and hide-bound,
which sometimes indicates that they have generated
worms. In this case they require to have a few
worm powders mixed with their food for a few days ;
and then a dose of linseed oil and turpentine, in quan-
tities suitable to their age, should be administered.
If this be followed up two or three days afterwards
by a few tonic powders, mixed in the corn, it will
give tone to the system and make the youngsters
feed more readily. This also will have a beneficial
effect upon the system generally, as weU as removing
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The yearling requires very little change of treat-
ment. He must now be fed thrice a day upon
crushed oats (Scotch oats are the best), with crushed
beans ground fine, but not pulverised into powder or
meal as heretofore recommended. The beans and
oats thus given, mixed with a little chaff and cut
green meat or carrots, will teach the animals to
masticate their food. As time and the yearling
advance, it should be handled and lightly wisped
over with a straw wisp twice a day — ^before being
turned out to grass in the morning, and when it is
brought in again at night. This will have the effect
of bringing the blood to the surface, and making the
coat more thrifty and kindly, besides accustoming
the young animal to being dressed over, as also of
keeping the blood in due circulation generally.
Brush its tail and mane at the time of these opera-
tions, and if this treatment is continued, and it is
habitually led from its box to the paddock, the work
of preparing it gradually for the trainer's hands will
be advancing.

I have only now to add to the foregoing that due
attention should be paid to the growth of the feet of
foals and yearlings, for by care and attention they
can easily be made to develop into the proper
shape ; and the stud-groom who pays due attention to
this important particular will enormously contribute
to the future success of the animal.

It is a good plan to keep a lump of chalk in the
water the foal and yearling drink from, as it is
thought, and I believe with truth, that the chalk has
bone-producing qualities.

The reader will observe in the above treatment

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of the foal and yearling that all fattening matter, or
food producing fat, has been avoided. Fed in the
way recommended, bone and muscle will grow in-
stead of the inches of adipose matter too often seen
upon yearlings bred by public breeders for public
auction ; and it is a pity that these breeders do not
recognise the fact, for, although by these fattening
processes they may produce at the different yearling
sales fine-looking animals, this is most detrimental,
and often fatal, to their future value as racehorses,
for it defies the efforts of their trainer to clear it
away and replace it by muscle. The animals in the
process of getting into anything like decent condition
often go all to pieces (so much so that their owner
hardly knows them), and their legs grow out of all
shape and form. Public breeders might sufier a loss
for a year or two by feeding their young stock on
the plan here advocated. They would not produce
such fine-looking animals, but the advent of common-
sense principles would soon be recognised and appre-
ciated by the purchasers of blood stock. The method
of feeding here detailed is consistent with the pur-
pose for which the animals are bred, in addition to
which they are far less trouble to the trainer, and
much more profitable to their purchaser, as they
come more readily to hand ; and if found worthless
for racehorses, their owner can dispose of them at
once and save all further expense, while, on the other
hand, they are always ready for their early engage-
ments, which is an important matter.

The yearling thus produced and fed will be fit at
the end of July (which is the best time) to be placed
in the trainer's hands, and he will continue (if he

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knows his business) to feed it upon the best oats
(crushed), mixed with a httle chaff and cut green
meat, discontinuing to give beans as heretofore. The
end of July is the best time to place the yearlings in
a training stable, for the weather is likely to be suit-
able for breaking and preparing them for training.
It may be incidentally remarked that the charge
should be 305. per week until the first of October, by
which date the youngster will be sufficiently forward
to take its place in the string of horses. In July also
there is not the changeable weather experienced later
in the season to interfere with operations, and there-
fore there is less likelihood of the young animals
takino^ a chill from becoming; over-heated and sweat-
ing during the process of breaking, which, by the
way, should be slow, and never hurried. The trainer
should have the yearling led about daily by a steady
quiet man for about a week or ten days before
attempting to put on the breaking tackle. This will
give it time and opportunity to become accustomed
to the people and things about it, which of course
are all strange. Lunge a yearling as little as possible,
but before putting on the breaking tackle it is best to
lunge it both ways for a short time to steady it.

The trainer's head man, if active and efficient, will
soon accomplish the rest, first, by putting a short
twitch on the animal's nose, and fastening it to the
head collar to steady it, and then putting on the roller,
side-reins, breast-girth, and buckling the roller loosely
round it until he gets on the crupper, which buckles
to the roller, and from which the hip- straps hang.
Having done this, he may draw up the roller a hole
or two tighter. He should then let the youngster go

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round the lunge both ways for a few minutes.
Although he will plunge for a short time on first
feeling the tackle, this will soon be over, and he will
become steady; and then the lesson should be stopped,
the twitch should be taken off, and the pupil patted
and made much of.

The man should then lead the pupil about until it
is time to return to the stable, when he should be made
much of again. The crupper and side-reins must be
taken off with the bridle, but the roller, breast-girth,
and head-collar left on ; and so the breaker will pro-
ceed by degrees for a few days, replacing the crupper
and side-reins when the animal goes to exercise.
After a short time he will become accustomed to
the tackle, when you can put a saddle on, after
which, in the course of a day or two, it would be
advisable to let one of the most active boys get upon
his back while in the box, and lie across the saddle,
patting the animal at the same time ; for there is
less likelihood of an accident happening if this is done
in the box on the first few occasions, instead of upon
the open heath, where horses have more room to
plunge if so inclined.

In the course of a few days more^ if this process
is continued, the animal will be fit to be ridden, led
by a steady man, and with some quiet old horse to
walk in front of it. It matters not the number of
yearlings in hand, the process of breaking should be
the same at this early period, care being always taken
to see that some steady old horse walks in front of
them, whether ridden or led. From this guide they
will soon learn proper manners.

¥r^hen sufficiently forward to be ridden loose, the

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old horse may trot about in front of the string, and
in the course of a few days the youngster will become
quiet and accustomed to the work, when the leader
can take them a steady canter or two daily of about
two or three hundred yards, until they know how to
follow each other. They may then have two or three
canters daily, after doing their usual walking and
trotting exercise. By this means they will soon
become familiar with what is required of them,
and by this time we shall be approaching the first of
October, when they are to be put into active training.
As a preliminary, they should be allowed to go a
little faster pace than heretofore, still led by the old
horse, and, if ridden properly, in the course of three
weeks they will be fit to jump off at a quicker pace
with their schoolmaster for about three furlongs.

They will soon grow used to this faster pace, and
like it, providing always that the jumping off is
not too frequent ; and, continuing thus, if the weather
remains open about a week before Christmas, a batch
of yearlings, with an old horse suitable for the pur-
pose (a three-year-old plater is the best), may be
jumped off and come at their best pace three or four
furlongs. This will give an opportunity of judging
which of them show the best speed, and as they finish
in this gallop (if all equally have been properly pre-
pared) so they will probably finish hereafter, although
none of them may beat the old horse, for he always
stays the longest, in spite of giving a lot of weight.

The reader must understand that this refers to the
yearlings placed in the trainer's hands in July, and
not bought at a later period — say, for instance, at the
yearling sales at Doncaster — for it would be impos-

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sible to have them so forward as this. Here, again,
the private breeder, who breeds for racing, must
always have a great advantage over the public
breeder, for he can place his yearlings in the hands
of his trainer at the best time for the advancement of
their preparation, whereas gentlemen who have to
depend upon the public sales to purchase their animals
must necessarily wait until the sales take place. Many
never buy yearhngs until the Doncaster sale in the
middle of September, and this obviously places the
owner and trainer at a disadvantage if the youngsters
are likely to be engaged in the early spring, for it
would be impossible to have them so forward (loaded,
as they usually are, with fat) as those sent to a training
stable at the end of July.

As Christmas approaches — and the lads in the
stable look for a little relaxation at this period of the
year — it is well to ease both the old and young horses
in their work for a few days, or say a fortnight, and
do with them nothing beyond healthy exercise until
New Year's Day is over. By this time the lads will
have settled down to their work again, and the year-
lings (now two years old) will have regained their
confidence. The holiday is good both for the horses
and lads, and is to be recommended even if the
weather be open and fine. In all probability, at this
period of the year there will be frost and snow, in
which case horses are best upon the straw bed, for
there is nothing calculated to do so much mischief as
galloping upon frozen ground, although it may be
covered with snow — first, because the drift that will
take place in a snow storm leaves some portion of
the frozen ground bare, and should the animals

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gallop suddenly over this hard surface there is a
great risk of their laming themselves ; and, secondly,
if they are worked for any long time when the ground
is in this state they will almost certainly lose their
action from being unaccustomed to the sort of going.
Trainers would be wise if they confined their horses
to the straw bed and trotting exercise during the
whole time that the ground is frozen or covered with
snow, for, although there may be an anxiety to push
forward the preparation of those that have early
engagements, depend upon it the maxim ' more haste
less speed ' is here, for the reason given, specially
applicable. Of course, steeplechasers, hurdle-race
horses, and hunters must continue their preparation,
because their engagements fall at this season of the
year, and also because they are more seasoned horses,
and need not do very fast work.

The trainer now will have fair sailing, so far as
refers to the yearlings that were galloped a week
before Christmas, and if any of them have any early
engagements, such as at Lincoln and Liverpool, he
will have nothing to do, provided they keep in
health, but go on steadily with them, occasionally
letting them come a sharp gallop all together, led by
the old horse, say twice a week, about four furlongs or
four furlongs and a half. This will have the effect of
teaching them to act together and in company — in
other words, to race; but the 'jumping off' here
described should not be done too frequently, or
sooner or later it is sure to upset some of the
youngsters and make them flighty. When this
happens it will be found a difficult matter to get
them to the canter's end, and usually, if these

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animals are not eased in tlieir work at once, they will
go off and out of condition in consequence of their
nervous system being affected.

Should any of the yearlings become thus flighty,
lose their appetites and leave their corn, the trainer
would be wise to let them have easy work for a few
days, say one canter a day, and now it would be
advisable to give steel drops daily in their water for a
week. This will have the effect of assisting to restore
their nervous energy, and, together with the easy
work they have been doing, will give additional con-
fidence to the animal, which is the most important of
all ; for when once they become frightened it is a
difficult matter to s^et them settled down ag^ain.

As March, with the Lincoln and Liverpool meet-
ings, approaches, should any of these young animals
be engaged, they will have to go a longer distance,
and in due time at a faster pace. If the owner
wishes to try his two-year-olds intended for these early
fixtures (as he is sure to do, say about a week before
Lincoln), it would be advisable for the trainer to
order them to be jumped off, say two or three times,
still led by the old horse, first, in the early part of
March, and then again about ten days afterwards, and
so on. This will teach them their business, and prepare
them for the actual trial ; but always avoid jumping
them off too frequently, for it makes them awkward
at the start, and so unsettles them, which is often the
cause of the long delays which arise at the post when
a field is under the starter's orders.

With regard to trying two-year-olds, it is best to
try them with a three- or four-year-old, and always
a colt if one can be had. A horse that has won

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a Selling Eace in the previous autumn is a good
animal to select, as the chances are that he retains
some of his humble form, and if you can succeed
in getting any of your youngsters to beat this plater
at seven or ten pounds you need not despair of
winning the Brocklesby nine times out of ten, not-
withstanding the reports of the extraordinary trials
which have taken place in other stables. Now and
then you will no doubt be beaten by an unusually
good animal, but my stable has won the Brocklesby
two or three times easily with animals whose creden-
tials were that they could just beat a three-year-old
plater at seven or ten pounds, or a handicap horse at
much greater weight.

It is a good plan for about a week or ten days
before these two-year-olds have to run to give them
steel drops in their water (and, indeed, this applies to
all horses before meeting their engagements), for it
will be found, as their work increases, they will go oflf
their feed more or less, and, perhaps, in the case
of those engaged at Lincoln and Liverpool, it will be
best at the beginning of March to give them old oats,
with a double handful of beans ground fine, mixed
with a little chafi* and carrots ; because here you can
give less in bulk, and they are more likely to eat the
smaller quantity, from which they will derive more
nourishment than in all probability they would from
the crushed oats.

One of the trainer's most frequent plagues is that
which arises from shin soreness in his horses. If this
should develop in the process of training, as it is
not unlikely to do, have the place dressed at once,
walk the animal for two or three days, and then go

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steadily on again. It is never wise to delay in dress-
ing the sliins, for there is no other means of getting
rid of the soreness, and, if delayed, the sufferer's action
becomes short and defective, which is fatal to his
showiner his best form.

Should one of the two-year-olds be found equal to
the task of beating the old horse at the weights above
recommended for trial, in all probability it will turn
out sufficiently good to win at Lincoln, and if this
comes off I do not think it wise to send a two-year-
old on to Liverpool, as the extra travelling and extra
weight to be carried as the penalty of success is almost
certain to destroy its chances. This would be an
unfortunate circumstance, as the animal began so
well, and perhaps would discourage it for future
enofao'ements.

Of course there will occasionally be an animal of
superior merit, who would win the Brocklesby
easity, and then, if engaged in the Molyneux Stakes
at Liverpool, would succeed in carrying his extra
weight and winning ; but owners cannot be cautioned
too much against running their two-year-olds too fre-
quently at the beginning of the season, particularly if
they have important engagements later on ; in any
case there are valuable races to be won almost every
week in the season, and horses are easily spoilt when
too much demand is made on them.

Given ordinary luck, the trainer will have little
or no trouble with his two-year-olds that have once
come nicely to hand and shown a little form, pro-
vided always that they keep in health. The chances
are, that they will go on improving after their first
race, with occasionally a sharp gallop, say twice a

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week. If the owner is so fortunate as to find that he
has a youngster of superior class, it is wise to run him
for his most important engagements throughout the
season, if these do not occur too frequently, for the
fact must always be kept in view, where this class of
animal is concerned, that he has a career before him,
and doubtless three-year-old engagements of impor-
tance, the chances of success in which will be gravely
jeopardised if the two-year-old is run off its legs ;
but it unfortunately happens that animals which seem
to be good in the early spring often prove to be only
useful as summer approaches, moderate about Good-
wood, and worse later on ; so I cannot pretend to
advise with regard to the placing of such horses.

At the end of the two-year-old season, the trainer
will begin to relax the work, for rest and quiet now
become necessary, and to fall back again upon the
former system of feeding recommended for the year-
lings and two-year-olds up to March — crushed oats, a
few carrots and chaff, with linseed mashes twice a
week carefully and well made. Purgatives or tonics
are both to be avoided. The former relax the system
too much and cause a predisposition to chill, and the
low fever so well known at Newmarket will possibly
follow or intervene, when the horse will go amiss,
and very likely, if the lungs are at all affected, be-
come a roarer. This dire disease arises from various
causes, and may no doubt often be traced to the
defective flooring and ventilation of the stable in
which the animal passes the greater part of his life.
It is too often found in old stabling that the bricks
are laid in mortar upon sand or upon the earth itself
levelled, and this allows all the impurities which pass

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through the animal to saturate the sand or earth
below. In tmie this becomes so impure that the
vapours arising therefrom contaminate the whole
atmosphere of the stable, and disease is the result.
The stable may be thoroughly washed and cleansed
by white-washing or other means, but the mischief
is always likely to break out if the real cause is not
removed, for the germs of the disease remain in the
earth below.

In a stable properly built for racing purposes,
the flooring should be of solid concrete, two or three
feet thick. Upon this the bricks, laid edgeways, and
fixed in cement, herring-bone fashion, should be
placed, and this will prevent all evil effects from
dampness, the permeation of offensive liquid, and so
on. Every box or stall should be thoroughly cleansed
out twice a day, and the health of horses will be
thus as far as possible assured. Tonics are for the
most part obviously unnecessary at this season of
the year, for nearly all horses feed well in the winter
months.

It has always been a matter of great argument
among racing men, whether a two-year-old of high
class, say for instance, a two-year-old which has
won the Middle Park Plate, would improve much
between this time and the following March, and the
question has been forced to the front by observers
and critics of the fact that three-year-olds so seldom
win the Lincolnshire Handicaps, although set to
carry only a very light weight.

It is possible they are not so good at this period
as they were in the previous October. At the time
they win the Middle Park Plate they are undoubtedly

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in their best form, whereas, during the winter
months, if they have sound constitutions and are
good feeders, they become big and fleshy, and con-
sequently much relaxed in their system ; moreover,
the weather probably interferes with their work so
much that it would be impossible for a trainer to
get them into their best form without hurrying them,
and running the chance of their going amiss. Thus
again even if it were possible for the trainer to do
so, he would be foolish to precipitate matters with
three-year-olds which were engaged, say, in the Two
Thousand and Derby, if they were class enough for
these races ; for the chances are ten to one against
his winning the Lincoln Handicap, although handi-
capped at a light weight, whereas, by more judicious
management, and going on with his horse progres-
sively, with a view to its more important engage-
ments, success may be patiently achieved. In order
to win, or to have a chance of winning, a big race, a
steady and regular preparation is indispensable.
The trainer must always take care that an inferior
animal leads the hope of the stable in his work, for
it matters not whether it is a plater or a Derby
horse, it is bad training to allow an animal that is
expected to win to have the worst of any gallop it
may be sent in its preparation. Horses find that
they cannot get in first, and this has very often the
effect of making them cowards.

The feeding from about March 1st should consist
of old oats (the best Scotch), old tick beans (two years
old) ground tolerably fine, a few carrots and chaff,
with the best hay which can be bought, and occa-
sionally a few tonics may be found necessary, but it

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is always wise to avoid giving tonics unless absolutely-
necessary, and then steel drops in a horse's water are
best.

Horses that are undergoing a severe preparation
often become more or less delicate in their feeding,
and they should be fed carefully and with great
attention, or they may loathe their food altogether,
and this will be a source of much anxiety to their
trainer. It is bad practice to feed a horse in train-
ing too heavily, for many animals are thus sent off
their feed altogether, and the consequence too fre-
quently is that it becomes a necessity to ease them in
their work, which necessarily involves loss of time.

If the horse that is being prepared for the Two
Thousand or Derby is thought to be of sufficient class
for these races, should he be of a gross and
strong constitution (with this sort of horse there
is always a predisposition to put on flesh) the trainer
will have to be active in getting him fit, even for the
Two Thousand, more especially if the weather is
against him and continues cold. If it is seen that the
animal does not sweat sufficiently in his usual exercise
gallops, the best plan would be, weather permitting,
to resort to the old system of training, and let him
go through a nice steady sweating gallop of three
miles with double clothing on, three times a fortnight,
led by a horse inferior to himself. Beginning the
gallop at a moderate pace, after two miles are
covered the pace should increase gradually to the
finish, so that at the end of the gallop they should
be going at a good speed.

On pulling up, the horse should be walked
straight into the rubbing-house, when additional rugs

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and clothing should be thrown over him, and then
he may be allowed to stand and blow and break out
for about ten minutes. After being in the rubbing-
house three or four minutes, the girths should be
loosened a couple of holes, and at the expiration of
about ten minutes he will be found to be sweating
freely. This will relieve the whole system and lighten
the horse both externally and internally. The hood
and neck-sweater should then be removed, and the
head and neck scraped and immediately rubbed dry
with clean rubbers ; the quarters and body, when
scraped and rubbed dry, must be wisped over, the
manes and tails combed out and wiped over again
with a clean dry rubber. Mouths should be rinsed
out with water, eyes and nose sponged and wiped quite
dry. A dry suit of clothing should now be put on,
saddle, and rug over the top of the saddle, fastened
by a surcingle, and the horse may be allowed to walk
home from the trainino^ around to his stable. At
Newmarket this may always be done ; if elsewhere
the places are too close together, he may be led about
for some quarter-of-an-hour or so first, when he
should be given a little damped hay, his head and
neck thoroughly dressed, the mane well brushed out
(for it will even now be hardly dry), the eyes and nose
again sponged and well rubbed dry, after which the
head collar may be put on. The horse can then be
turned round to the manger, fastened upon his rack-
chain and side-chains, and then his quarters should
be thoroughly dressed, care being taken to brush his
tail as clean as possible. Put the clothing down over
his quarters, lay the hood or quarter-sheet over them,
and then get his feet and legs done.

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By this time the head-man will have got ready his
water — three parts of a pail, with a wine-glass full
of sweet spirits of nitre put into it and mixed.
Horses will drink this readily when used to it ; and
this will have the effect of keeping up the circulation
and preventing a chill. Then let his body be well
dressed, after which put comfortable clothing on ; his
feet should be done with a proper hoof ointment, and
stopped with the usual stopping used for this pur-
pose. After this set him fair nicely, taking care to
shake up the straw well, place it all round by the
side of the box, and in the middle make it level and
comfortable ; give him a small quantity of hay, and
feed him hghtly with corn ; if the best Scotch oats, a
bowl and a half is sufficient, mixed with a small
double handful of beans, chaff, and lucerne or carrots
cut up.

It is always best with horses of this gross sort to
make your sweating days on the days when they
have their linseed mash, because a linseed mash
made in the proper way recommended, given as the
last feed of the night, will to some extent prevent
constipation, an ailment common after sweatino-
gallops in this process of training.

As the subject of stable management is now being
discussed, perhaps it would be as well to make a few
observations upon that point. To begin, then, at the
first opening of the stable in the morning, it is the
duty of the head-man to have his horses' heads tied up,
to walk through each box and examine the mangers to
see which of the horses have left any corn during the
night. If any have done so it should be immediately
removed and the manger swept clean, care beino-

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taken to note and report to the trainer wliicli liorses
have left corn, and how much. The head-man should
then go through with his sieve, into which fresh corn
has been nicely sifted, mixed with a few beans and a
little chaff, take his bowl in his hand, and give to
those which have eaten up during the night half a
bowl each of it, and those which have left any corn
during the night, a single handful. This is done to
amuse and let them keep company with the others
more than anything else, for even this single handful
they often will not eat, so delicate are some of them
when in active training.

The lads who look after the horses, during the
time the head-man is going through the mangers and
feeding them, should first, on tying up their charges,
throw a hood or quarter-sheet over the quarters, then
remove all the soiled litter, taking care to sweep out
clean. The unsoiled litter should be shaken up, and
placed in the corners of the box. A little sand
should next be thrown down if the standing be on
bricks, to prevent slipping, and then the clean litter
should be thinly shaken over it ; twist up the door-
ways and sweep clean ; and if the head-man knows
his business this operation will be performed by the
lads looking after the different horses pretty much at
the same time.

One of the spare boys should then walk through
the stable with a skip of sawdust under his arm, and
throw down over the bare bricks at the doorways
sufficient to cover them, and some also behind those
horses which are standing in the stalls. This makes
the stable look clean and wholesome, as well as acting
as a sort of disinfectant if the proper sawdust is used.

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The lads looking after the different horses in the
meantime will get their quarters dressed over, and
when finished draw the clothing over their charges,
keeping the hood or quarter-sheet over all. Then
bring their heads round, sponge their eyes and nose,
wisp their heads and necks over, brush their manes,
wipe over with a clean rubber, put head collars on,
turn them round and tie them up with rack chain
and side chains. If they wear bandages, now take
them off, and whether they wear any or not, sponge
and wipe their legs down dry, brush their feet round
with the ointment used for this purpose, strip their
bodies and brush and wisp them straight over.
During this process the head-man should walk
through the stable, examine every horse's legs, and
report carefully to the trainer the result of this
examination.

The horses should then be done over with a clean
rubber and their clothes put on again ; brush their
manes and tails, and put a hood or quarter-sheet
over their quarters, set the box fair, and leave them
standing until the lads have had their breakfast, the
head-man shutting up the stable safely.

After breakfast the man in charge of the clothing
and saddlery will hand out to each lad his proper
saddle, bridle, clothing, ankle boots, &c., and the
lad will go straight and at once make his horse ready
for exercise, first wiping his charge over, and
putting his exercise clothing on, saddle, bridle, &c.
Wlien all are ready to go out, the head-man should
walk through the stable putting eachlad upon his horse,
and takino' note at the same time whether the horses
are made duly ready. On returning from exercise

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the horse should always be dressed in the way already
recommended, omitting, however, the sweet spirits of
nitre from their water, which is only necessary for
those horses that have gone through their sweating
gallop on their sweating days, when it should always
be given.

At the afternoon or five o'clock stable the head-
man should go through the same routine as that
described at the first opening of the stable in the
morning, taking care to note particularly how the
horses have fed during the afternoon. He should
again examine their legs minutely, and as before
report to the trainer, who, of course, will himself
go through the horses, when his practised eye — the
animals being stripped — will soon detect anything
that is amiss.

After the horses are done and the stable is put
straight, they should have a standing feed mixed in
the same way as that recommended for the morning,
and those that have eaten up during the afternoon
should have half a bowl each given to them, the
others which have left any corn a lesser quantity.
The head-man then should shut up the stable, and he
with the lads go and get their meal.

It will now be about seven o'clock in the evening,
and the horses should be allowed to stand for some
three-quarters of an hour, by which time the lads will
have finished their tea or supper, and then the head-
man should open the stable, and each lad putting his
horse upon the side chains, the head lad will then
pass through every box and examine the mangers
to see how each of the horses has fed. The lads'
last duty is to put their horses' clothing straight.

SHOEING 105

straighten out tlieir manes and tails, and set them fair
for the night, sweep their mangers clean, give them
each a small quantity of hay, and then when all ready
for feeding the lads should take their rubbers to the
corn bin, where the head-man will be waiting for them,
and feed each horse separately.

The gross horses who are good feeders should
now have given to them two bowls and a half of corn,
with a good double handful of beans, a small double
handful of chaff, and a little green meat or carrots
mixed together. The lighter-feeding animals should
of course l)e fed on a lesser quantity : the head-man
will know how much to give them from their mode
of feeding. Horses differ very much in their consti-
tutions and dispositions, and great attention should be
paid to tlieir likes and dislikes. By this means you
can always keep them on good terms with themselves,
which is an important matter to their well-being.
The stable now should be shut up for the night.

While speaking of the management of the horses
in the stable, it would, perhaps, be as well to draw
the attention of the trainer and head-man to the
important subject of shoeing, and the great care and
attention which must be paid to horses' feet ; for hoofs
are often so brittle that you can hardly keep a shoe
on them. These will require great attention, and the
use of the hoof ointment two or three times a day.
The blacksmith must be a careful and steady man, for
bad and defective shoeing is often the cause of horses
breaking down; for instance, allowing the foot to
grow out at the toe, is apt to throw so much
additional stress and strain upon the back sinews,
that they often give way in consequence.

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The foot should always have a level and even
bearing, with the toes tolerably short, and neither
lower nor higher on the outside or inside, unless shod
so for some special purpose or with some object in
view, such as giving additional support, by raising
the shoe either on the outside or inside to the
suspensory ligament. This at times is found neces-
sary. The shoe should always be made to fit the
foot, with the nails small and not driven too high.
Some persons object to low-heeled horses, but I am
not of that opinion, for a careless blacksmith can do
less harm here than he could do with a higher-heeled
horse, as he dare not remove much of the horn from
the former horse, and therefore you will get a more
uniform bearing ; in addition to which many of our
best horses have had low heels, and in many instances
have continued to train on for a long period in per-
fect soundness.

The head-man between stable hours should have
everything about the establishment, such as forks,
brooms, pails, yards, &c., kept in good order. The
man who is appointed to look after the saddlery must
keep his saddle-rooms clean. The observant visitor
will at once perceive whether the head-man takes a
pride in his work, and if he does not the trainer is
primarily to blame.

After this digression in speaking of the stable
management, we will now return to the horse that is
undergoing a preparation for the Two Thousand or
Derby, whom we left after going through his sweating
gallop. The day following, after the usual walking
and trolling exercise, he should be sent one canter,
and after that a steady gallop of a mile and a quarter,

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always being led, if possible, by the same liorse ; for
this will give the young three-year-old special confi-
dence, knowing, as he does, his superiority over the
animal that leads him. His gallops therefore are not
likely in any way to frighten him. When going a
faster and more severe gallop, it may be found neces-
sary to put a hghter weight on the horse which
usually leads the work, a stone or so less than he has
been used to carry. This will be done to ensure a
good gallop of the proper pace throughout.

If the horse is now sufficiently forward in his
preparation (having undergone six or eight of the
sweating gallops, before recommended on the assump-
tion that we have a gross kind of horse), as he
ought to be by this time, then on the second day
after his last sweating gallop he should be stripped,
as should also the horse which leads him. The
latter after the usual walking and trotting exercise,
and after cantering, may bring the three- year-old at
a good three-parts speed a httle over a mile, the
pace to be true throughout. This sort of work will
sharpen him up a bit, and make him blow freely,
and possibly, as you are now getting him forward in
condition, you may hereafter dispense with the
sweating gallops, for the weather by this time will
be growing warmer, so that he may be found to
sweat sufficiently in his exercise gallops, for his
previous long work will have lightened and cleaned
him ; and now you will go on progressively from day
to day, taking care, two or three times a week, that
your horse is sent a gallop as last recommended.
This will not frighten him because, as already ob-
served, he knows his superiority over the horse

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which leads hmi. The other days he can do easy
work, say one or two canters and a steady gallop.
On Sundays it will only be necessary to allow the
horses to walk out for an hour and a half, unless,
of course, an animal should be engaged to run on
the following Monday or Tuesday, in which case
it is absolutely necessary for him to do his usual
work.

As to the idea of not taking out the horses at all
on Sunday, and allowing them to be confined in
their close and heated stable for forty-eight hours,
from the Saturday morning till the Monday morning,
surely it must be a great mistake to ]3i'event the
j^oor animals who cannot go out at their own will,
as human beings can, from breathing the fresh and
pure air? The best ventilated stables are apt to
become close and stuffy, and it is not possible that
animals can thrive if so confined, especially animals
organised as is the racehorse in training. Due
respect for Sunday is always to be inculcated,
particularly in a stable, where there are numbers of
lads who should have a good example set them ; but
at the same time the rules that are dictated by
common sense must not be ignored.

We will suppose that all has gone well, and our
horse is by this time getting clean and forward in
condition : his regular work should then be pretty
much as follows : — Walk on the Sunday for an hour
and a half, unless very close to his engagement. On
the Monday he should do two steady canters, and a
steady mile-and-a-quarter gallop. On Tuesday, after
his usual walking and trotting exercise, let him go
two canters steadily, then take his body clothes off,

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leaving perhaps a rubber on under the saddle, and
also his hood, which will make him sweat a little.
Now put your lighter boy on the horse which
usually leads the work, and let them come a good
three-parts-speed gallop a little over a mile, taking
€are to tell the lads (who should be the best you
have in the stable) to ' balance ' their horses nicely
on jumping off.

By balancing the horse it is meant that the lads
on jumping off in the gallop should, after going
about fifty or a hundred yards, take a steady and
strong pull at their horses in order to make them
gallop in their proper action and form, for it some-
times happens in jumping off suddenly in a gallop
or a race that a horse will get off cross-legged, and
when this happens the rider should instantly take a
steady pull to ' balance ' him ; for no horse can
gallop fast, or far, when going cross-legged, and
many races are lost through horses being driven into
their bridles at the start when they are not galloping
true. When this happens, as it frequently does, the
jockey should instantly take a steady pull to right
his mount, and even if he loses a length or two in
this operation, it is the less of two evils, for no horse
can possibly gallop through a race successfully, cross-
leo'o^ed.

Jockeys who thoroughly understand their pro-
fession, T. Cannon, J. Osborne, Webb, Wood, and
Watts, never allow their horses to go cross-legged
fifty yards. Wells, Archer, and Fordham, masters of
the art whose loss is still felt, were especially
admirable in their riding under such circumstances.
No jockeys knew better how to sympathise with and

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balance tlieir horses, and Tom Cannon inlierits and
exhibits the best qualities of both.

When the horse pulls up from his gallop he should
be allowed to walk about for a few minutes, and
then the girths may be slackened and the body
clothing put on. On the Wednesday, the horse
should have his usual walking and trotting exercise,
and then one steady canter of about five furlongs,
and a steady gallop of a mile and a quarter. On
Thursday, after his walking and trotting exercise, he
should have two steady canters and a half-speed
gallop of a mile and a quarter. On Friday the same
work should be done as on the previous day ; and
now, as we are approaching the time of the horse's en-
gagements, on Saturday, after the usual walking and
trotting exercise, let him go two canters, after which,
led by the horse which usually leads him, with the
lighter boy on, come a little over a mile at his best
pace.

The Two Thousand horse will not be overdone
by this sort of training, because of the inferiority of
the animal that he follows. Pursue this course
of training for a fortnight, after what has previously
been done, and the horse will be fit to try at any
moment ; after which he will be ready to meet his
engagement, and whether he is good, bad, or in-
different, providing nothing untoward has liappened
to him through his preparation, he should now show
his best form whether he wins or whether he is
beaten. If he is a horse of sufficient class, depend
upon it he will be hard to beat.

Supposing now that he gets through his trial
and his race for the Two Thousand successfully, the

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trainer will let his liorse walk and trot about two or
three days after winning. Then for the following
two or three days (after his usual walking and
trotting exercise) the horse may do a canter of six
furlongs daily. After this, if he is in perfect health
and soundness, he should continue his preparation
for the Derby. Let him, on the Monday following
the Two Thousand, after the usual walking and
trotting exercise, go a steady canter, and a mile at
a steady pace, and on Tuesday do the same work.
On the Wednesday he should be given two steady
canters, and a mile-and-a-quarter gallop. On Thurs-
day and Friday let him have one canter, and come a
mile and a quarter steadily, and on Saturday he can
have one canter, and then come a little over a mile
and a half at half-speed, his body clothes being taken
off, and his hood and rubber left on.

This will bring us to within a fortnight or three
weeks of the Derby, ample time considering, as we as-
sume, your horse has already won the Two Thousand,
and is therefore fit to run. The trainer now should
be guarded against overdoing his horse in the way of
work, and this is a matter of the first importance.

As we begin work again on the following Monday^
let the horse canter about ^ye or six furlongs, and
then come a mile and a quarter steadily, doing the
same work on Tuesday. On Wednesday he should
be given two steady canters, and a half-speed gallop
of a little over a mile and a half. On Thursday, one
canter, and then a steady mile gallop, doing similar
work on the Friday, and on Saturday (if the horse is
feeding well and going on satisfactorily) let him have
one canter, and then come a little over a mile and a.

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half at tliree-parts speed, taking care that the gallop
is increased to a faster pace towards the finish. Ee-
peat this work during the following week, and now,
as we have only ten days left before he has to meet
his Epsom engagement, he must on the Monday con-
tinue his work pretty much as follows : — One canter
and a mile gallop steadily. On Tuesday two steady
canters, and then a mile-and-a-quarter gallop at half-
speed. On Wednesday take off his body clothing,
leaving nothing on except his rubber and hood, and
after cantering five or six furlongs steadily, let him
come a good three-parts-speed gallop of a little over
a mile and a half, taking care that at the finish of the
gallop the horse leading him finishes at his best pace.
On Thursday and Friday let him go one canter, and
a steady gallop of a mile, and on Saturday repeat
the w^ork done on the preceding Wednesday. On
Sunday let him do one canter of six furlongs. On
Monday, if he has not left for Epsom, give him one
canter, and a mile and a half at half-speed, finishing
the gallop at three-parts speed. On Tuesday he will
be travelling to Epsom, where possibly he may arrive
from Newmarket at mid-day, in which case, if com-
fortably done up after his arrival, say by 2 p.m., go
to the stable again at 5 p.m., let him be dressed over
and made ready to walk out for three-quarters of an
hour ; then on returning to the stable let him be
dressed over, after which give him a small standing
feed, and three-quarters of an hour afterwards go to
him and do him up for the night, taking care not to
feed quite so heavily as usual. If it is known that
he does not eat his straw it is best not to muzzle
him.

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On the following morning go to liim at 5.30 a.m.,
have him dressed over and got ready for exercise ;
give no corn or anything now, for he does not
require it. Walk on the course, and if he has fed
well and eaten up during the night let him have two
canters steadily and return to the stable at once.
Have him well dressed over and done, give him a
quarter of a pail, or a little more than a cj[uarter of a
pail, of water, and about a bowl of corn, after
eating which, put his muzzle on, turn him loose and
allow him to be in quiet until it is time to go to the
stable. Then have him made ready nicely to go out
to run, allowing him about an hour and a quarter
or a little more to walk before the time set for his
race.

Should he succeed in winning the Derby and be
engaged in the St. Leger with intermediate engage-
ments, say at Ascot, Goodwood, &c., his owner will
determine and decide for which races he wishes to
run him, always keeping in view his engagement
in the St. Leger. After this the training of the
horse should be continued pretty much as the fore-
going for future events, always taking care not to
overwork him. The old school of trainers, such as
John Scott (and a very able and successful man he
was), usually gave a dose of physic to his horse after
winning the Two Thousand, if engaged in the
Derby, as it was thought to freshen him up more
readily than by any other means ; but purgatives in
my opinion should always be avoided as much as
possible, in consequence of the relaxation they cause
to the system generally, and there are other means
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you cannot always tell the exact result of giving a
dose of physic.

Of course, much is said about the orthodox system
of giving a horse a Two Thousand and Derby pre-
paration, but depend upon it the horse can be no
more than fit to run at the time he is wanted, and
ihe trainer, if a wise man, will pay no attention to the
comments made by outsiders upon the preparation he
has given his horse. They cannot possibly be in a
position to know what is the best treatment for an
animal they never or rarely see, and even if they do
acquire a little information, they are not behind the
scenes, and the trainer must know the constitution
of the animal he is preparing better than those who
have no opportunit}^ of judging beyond what they
observe upon the exercise ground.

The reader will understand that the preceding
system of training only applies to the strong and
gross-constitutioned horse, for whom the preparation
must always be more severe than for a light and
weaker animal, who of course must be trained as his
constitution will bear. He will require less work and
more delicate feeding, although it will be necessary,
even with the latter class of horse, to let him undergo
a sound preparation, which should be carried out
with caution and care. It is better with this kind of
animal to walk for a day or^ two without doing any-
thing, than to give him a gallop so severe as to run
the risk of upsetting him for a whole week.

The trainer therefore should continue to train his
animals (whatever they may be) placed under his
charge, as he finds their constitution will bear it, for
the constitutions and dispositions of racehorses are

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extremely various, and what is best for one is fatal
to another. Proofs of this are too numerous to be
disregarded ; for instance, an animal who won the
Cesarewitch in a common canter, with 8 st. 7 lb.
on her back, never went further than a mile and a
quarter during her preparation and exercise gallops,
because it was found she could not bear longer
gallops, notwithstanding that she was a wonderful
stayer.

It is on record that a horse won the Derby by a
head after doing nothing but walking for nearly three
weeks previously. Of more recent date, Hermit did
nothing but walk for several days before he won his
famous race, and Harvester also ran a dead heat
with St. Gatien for the Derl^y (and would have
won it, too, if, as previously arranged, Archer had
ridden him), though he had done nothing but
walk for several days before he ran for the race,
and was under the veterinary surgeon's care the
whole of the time. This being so, what becomes of
the orthodox system of the so-called Derby prepara-
tion ? One horse, we find, can walk only for nearly
three weeks, and yet win the Derby ; another can
walk several days, after breaking a blood-vessel, and
still be victorious ; and the third, from defective
formation and consequently unsoundness, does nothing
but walking exercise for several days before running,
and yet makes a dead-heat for that race, which he
would certainly have won had he been better ridden.
This is casting no reflection upon the jockey who had
the mount, for no one will dispute Archer's superiority
as a horseman to S. Loates.

Training, it therefore appears, is a matter of

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penetration, of observation, of comprehension of the
horse, and of the difference between horses. An
experienced and skilful trainer will perceive what
mode of treatment and management is best adapted
to the animals placed nnder his charge. All may be
anxious in their calling, but all will not have the
same ability to carry out their work, nor will they
possess the experience so necessary to enable them to
so successfully.

They may win races in their turn, for most horses
do this without any particular attention being be-
stowed upon them by their trainers, the knowledge
and experience of their owner in placing them being
enough, and much depends upon the wise placing of
horses ; but there is something in the nature of
fluking about this, and in order to make racing pay, a
really competent trainer, who, being competent,
follows a really judicious method, is a primary
essential.

Of course, during the preparation of horses it
often happens that they go amiss on their legs or
constitutionally, in which case, if the mishap seems
serious, the best veterinary surgeon available should
be called in ; for, althouoli the trainer mav know the
best treatment to be adojDted under various circum-
stances, it is far more satisfactory to himself and to
the owner of the horse (particularly so to the latter)
to know that sound professional advice has been
sought and adopted. At J^ewmarket there is no one
more competent to give advice than Mr. W. Barrow,
sen. His reputation extends far and wide, and his
duty is always fearlessly and conscientiously done.

In conclusion, it need onlv be observed that it is

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tlie soundness of the internal organs, as well of the
feet and legs, that makes the racehorse. The forma-
tion of the animal appears to have little to do with
its excellence, for, as the saying goes, and it is a true
one, ' horses run in all shapes and forms ; ' and if the
horse of sound constitution and soundness of limbs
is also a light-ileshed horse, then the owner ought
to be satisfied and congratulate himself upon possess-
ing the animal, if of a good class and of real
m^erit.

The trainer will not have much difficulty in pre-
paring an animal of this sort for his engagements,
for he will require little or no preparation when once
fit to run, and with judicious management will always
be ready to meet his engagements ; whereas a horse
of a grosser constitution will require much more
training.

As before remarked, horses have their likes and
dislikes. Some will run their races best upon hard
sound ground ; others like the going moderately soft,
without being in either extreme, too soft or too hard ;
others, again, like it to be heavy and holding, the
last sort usually being short and quick-actioned
horses.

The size of the feet has nothing to do with a
horse's capability of getting through dirt, though
opinions on this head are constantly heard. When
any peculiarity of the animal's action and suitability
for one sort of going in preference to another is
observed by the trainer, he should at once ac-
quaint the owner in order that he may be able
to place his horse to advantage, and engage him to
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is technically termed ' good going,' or tlie reverse, soft
and heavy, as the horse prefers it ; and, therefore, much
must depend upon the power of the trainer's obser-
vation in advising the owner how best to place his
animals.

Many owners and some trainers believe that it is
the right thing to run a horse constantly when he is
quite fit ; but after a time a horse subjected to this
treatment becomes ' stale.' This means that the ex-
cessive work it has undergone has consumed not only
the reserve materials, fats and other substances not
directly concerned in movement, but also its muscular
tissues. It has now lost its form, and must be indulged
with a long rest. Some trainers have curious theories
about their business, many of which cannot be enter-
tained by thinking men. For instance, in training a
racehorse, great importance is attached to causing
the disappearance of fat, and it is well known that by
diminishing the quantity of this tissue the horse is
enabled to breathe more easily. But trainers give a
fantastical explanation of this fact. They pretend
that the ' internal ' fat hinders the movements of the
lungs, and that by its removal these organs have
freer play. This explanation is quite unsatisfactory,
says Mr. Fernand Lagrange, a great authority on
such matters, and a man in whom I firmly believe.
He says, ' First, the lung is, of all the viscera,
that least subject to fatty deposit. Further, the
immunity from breathlessness during work is seen in
all trained persons alike, even in those who have more
fat about them than many untrained individuals. In
fact, many horses train fat, and Aveigh at least as
much as, and sometimes more than, they did when

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training began, only the nature of their tissues is no
longer the same ; their diet and training have causetl
the disappearance of all the materials useless to
movement, and developed on the other hand the
tissues necessary for racing. Their fat has almost
disappeared and been replaced by muscle/

Mr. Lagrange agrees with me that unless a horse
is born with staying powers in him, no amount of
training can make him really stay. He contends
that the word ' staying-power ' applies to the quali-
ties of the animal, not to the nature of the work he
performs, and that the animal provided with this
power is the only one whose system is fit to support
prolonged work. A horse running in a race out of
his course, that is, beyond the distance in which he
can show his best form, is an animal which produces
more carbonic acid than he is able to eliminate. This
causes a rapid intoxication which paralyses his
action, and, unless he is far superior to his antagonists,
no amount of skill on the part of his jockey, who has
nursed his speed to the last moment, will prevent
this inevitable intoxication, and land him first past
the winning post. There are about four jockeys
riding now — Cannon, Webb, Watts, and Osborne —
who can ride a perfect waiting race on a horse over a
distance which is known to be beyond his tether, and
they will appreciate these remarks when they think
of the sobs and sighs of the animals they have ridden
and waited with to the last j)ossible moment, when
within sight of the winning post they reluctantl}-
have to turn the pressure on, to win, or as is generally
the case to lose, the race on the animal they have
handled so patiently. To my mind, there is no

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greater treat than to see one of these masters of his
art ridmg a waiting race on a horse that he beheves
he will never be able to get home successfully; and,
while paying every possible tribute to the other
three jockeys I have mentioned, perhaps Cannon's
consummate skill in this particular style of riding,
and his superlative horsemanship in balancing his
animal before he has to sit down and ride him home
in grim earnest, have oftenest excited my admiration.
If only younger jockeys could contrive to take a leaf
out of his book !

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CHAPTER yi

THE RULES OF RACING

The revised Eules of Racing which have just come
into force are a decided improvement on the old rules,
but they are far from perfect, and still leave much to
be desired. For instance, in Part I. it describes a
' Selling Eace ' as one in which every horse running,
if a loser, may be claimed, and if the winner, must
be offered for sale by auction, or be liable to be
claimed. This rule, therefore, prevents a race from
being a selling race in which exemption from sale
can be claimed by any horse at the time of entry,
and a horse, although entered to be sold for lOOZ. in
the latter race, if he wins it, is liable to carry a
penalty in all future engagements, though the con-
ditions may state winners of 100/. 3 lb. extra, 'selling
races excepted.'

On the opening day of flat racing in 1890 Young
Hermit, entered to be sold for 100 so vs., won the
Tathwell Stakes, which was an optional selling race
for two-year-olds, inasmuch as horses claiming to be
sold for 100/. were allowed 10 lb. The winner was
bought in for 700 guineas, and on the following
Tuesday was sent to run for the Little John Plate
at Nottingham.

The conditions of this race are that the winner
of any race, selling races excepted, is to carry 3 lb.
extra ; thus by this new rule making optional selling

II. K

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races not selling races, Young Hermit, although he
had only run and won once in his life an optional
selling race, in which he was entered to be sold
for 100 sovs., had to carry a penalty in an ordinary
weight-for-age race because he had won a race
that was ' not a selling race.' After this absurdity
the sooner the rule is altered the better, and I
suggest that it should be framed on the lines of
the old rule making horses that have won these
optional selling races not to be sold liable for
penalties as if they had won an ordinary weight-
for-ao'e race, and those that are winners of these
races having claimed to be sold only to be con-
sidered winners of ordinary selling races ; and,
furthermore, I would exempt all winners of weight-
for-age selling races from penalties, and I would
not oblige horses to carry penalties in handi-
caps after the weights have appeared for winning
weight-for-age races between the time of the publi-
cation and the day on which the hanrlicap is run.
If the handicapper knew, as he ought to have
known, the form of the horse when the entries were
before him and he was making the handicap, it is
positively unfair that the horse should be made
to carry a penalty for winning a weight-for-age race
in the interim, possibly against horses different from
those he would have to meet in the handicap, for
he is only showing the form the handicapper knew or
supposed him to possess when he made him give
or receive weight to the other horses engaged.

I now turn to Part IX., Eule 75, which states that
allowances, when practicable under the conditions
of the race, must be claimed at the time of entry,

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or they shall not be allowed ; and to Part XVI., Eule
125, which states that allowances mu^t be claimed at
the time of entry where practicable {see Part IX.), but
omission to claim is not a source of disqualification,
' and a claim for allowance, to which a horse is not
entitled, does not disqualify unless carried out at
scale.' The first of these two rules has been a rule
of the Jockey Club for years, and I have known
many horses, that have won such races as the Trial
Stakes or Craven Stakes at Epsom, that could have
been disqualified because they claimed an allowance
of weight at scale which they could perfectly have
claimed at entry. I wiU give an instance. The
Trial Stakes at Epsom closes late on the Monday
night, and is run for the first race of the meeting.
It almost invariably has an allowance of 7 lb. for
horses that have never won a race of the value of 200
sovs. If, therefore, a horse is entered for this race
who is entitled to this 7 lb. allowance without its
being claimed for him at entry (which has never
or hardly ever been done hitherto, and yet is practi-
cable, as there is no race for him to run in between
the time of entry and the moment for weighing for
the race), and the 7 lb. allowance is claimed for him
at scale and taken, that horse could have been
disqualified if he won the race for not obeying what
was then up to 1890, inclusive, Eule 16, Part lY.,
' allowances when practicable under the conditions
of the race must be claimed at the time of entry, or
they shall not be allowed.'

These allowances in the kind of race I am
pointing out always have been taken and allowed at
scale ; therefore, the horse, if he wins the race, could

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have been disqualified, because he took an allow-
ance he was not entitled to. I have pointed this out
to Stewards of the Jockey Club, and the result,
apparently, is the two rules I have quoted, which
are not at all satisfactory to me, because in Eule 125
it states that omission to claim at the time of entry is
not a source of disqualification. What, therefore, is
the penalty if the owner claims the allowance ' at
scale ' and wins the race ? I am curious to know
this, particularly since another rule states that if
another horse carries anything more than the 2 lb.
over his proper weight he is disqualified, and here
a special rule appears to have been framed to prevent
the disqualification of horses that carry less than
their proper weight in the many weigh t-for-age races,
similar to the Trial Stakes at the Epsom Spring
Meetings, which are run for all over the country.
I sincerely hope for the good of racing, for the
benefit of crentlemen who consent to act as Stewards
at country meetings, and who have not studied the
Eules of Eacing, and indeed of everyone interested in
the sport, that the Jockey Clul3 will soon see their way
to determine the actual penalties, as far as lies in their
power, attached to all tlie different rules of racing.
I feel sure it would be perfectly feasible to carry this
out, especially as the Club numbers amongst its
members one so able as Sir Henry Hawkins, whose
valuable opinion has been of so much help to the
club. I give the conditions of the Trial Stakes at
Epsom for 1890 as follows : —

The Trial Stakes of five sovs. each for starters with
100 sovs. added, for three-year-olds, 8 st. 7 lb. ; four,
9 St. 10 lb. ; five and upwards, 9 st. 12 lb ; m. and g.

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allowed 3 lb. ; winners of a race value 500 so vs. in
1889 or 1890 to carry 7 lb. extra ; those which have
not icon a race in those years value 200 sovs. (selling
races not counted as races) alloived 7 lb., and if
maidens, cdloiced 7 lb. in addition. Entrance two sovs.
Six furlongs.

Whistle Jacket won the Southdown Plate, similar
to the above race, at Brighton August Meeting last
year, and claimed an allowance, at sccde only, for not
having won a certain sum. He is one of the many
horses that could have been disqualified, but I never
thought it ray business to inform the owner or trainer
of the second horse in these races that he could dis-
qualify the winner, knowing that it was through
ignorance that the allowance was not claimed at the
proper time.

We now come to Part III., Eule 12, dealing with
the powers of Stewards of a meeting, and with this
Part XXIII. must be included, as one has bearing on
the other. I object to both rules as not being strong
enough. They do not tell the Stewards that, if
an owner or manager of horses goes to them for
their advice about what weight his horse is to carry,
or to ask them to interpret the conditions of some
race, they are to give a decision to the best of their
judgment (subject to an appeal to the Stewards of the:
Jockey Club), which is to be carried out ; that they
are there to help the Clerk of the Course, owners of
horses, and everyone connected with the meeting, and
that they are not to shirk the responsibility of giving
not only their opinion but their instructions when
cases are brought before them to decide before a race.

Eule 85 states that all subscriptions, entries, &c.,

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become void on the death of the subscriber. It has
often been discussed whether this rule is advisable or
not. The chief argument against it is this. A man
has a valuable two-year-old that has run well enough
to give him a chance of winning important future
engagements. He dies, the engagements are void,
and therefore the horse has decidedly deteriorated in
value. If the rule ever was to be altered so as to
allow engagements to stand after the death of the
subscriber, and it was found impossible to make
the engagements binding on the heirs, it might be
possible to frame a rule allowing the heirs to give
notice that they will be responsible for all standing
engagements within a fortnight of the owner's death ;
but not beinof an advocate of conditional terms, I
merel}^ put it as a suggestion before readers who
may be interested in the rules.

In Part XIX., Eule 140 states, ' An owner run-
ning two or more horses in a race may declare to win
with one of them, and such declaration must be made
at scale. A jockey riding a horse with which the
owner has not declared to win, must on no account
stop such a horse, except in favour of the stable com-
panion on whose behalf declaration to win has been
made.' This rule was framed by me and offered to
the committee, and I am pleased to see they have
adopted it. Under the old rules there was not even
a stated time by which an owner had to declare to
win with a horse, and this laid open a way for
fraudulent practices ; but, owing to the faultiness
of the rules, I doubt if the Jockey Club could have
punished the perpetrator of them. Here is the idea.
An unscrupulous owner has two horses engaged in

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a race, one a public horse likely to be favourite
and win the race, the other one a dark one. He
engages two jockeys to ride, the one on the good
horse carrying the proper colours. At the last mo-
ment just before going to the post, the owner says to
this jockey, ' I have declared to win with my other
string ; you are, therefore, on no account to win.' He
then tells his other jockey to do his best, and goes to
the Clerk of the Scales just before the time for start-
ino\ and makes a declaration to win with the dark
horse. The Clerk of the Course may or may not have
just time to put a notice to that effect on the board ;
but, by that time, the mischief is done, as the owner
will have instructed agents to bet as much as they
can ao'ainst his s^ood horse, the numbers havino^ been
up a quarter of an hour. Even if this is considered a
far-fetched piece of imaginary villany, it is only right
that the public should be informed in good time if
an owner intends making a declaration, and if he
fails to do so, they will now know that both his
horses will run on their merits.

Lord Falmouth w^as very fond of running thus, and
I believe he broke Spinaway's heart in that desperate
race against Ladylove for the Newmarket Oaks. I
observed that Archer always contrived to ride the
better of his two, and invariably beat the stable
companion. Three times in the last seventeen years
have owners run first and second for the Leger.
Li 1873 Mr. Merry won with Marie Stuart, Don-
caster being second. In 1877 Lord Falmouth ran
first and second with Silvio and Lady Golightly ; and
in 1878 with Jannette and Childeric, Archer having
the successful mount on both these last occasions.

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Eule 142. — If a race has been run by all the
horses at wrong weights, or over a wrong course or
distance, or if the judge is not in the box at the time
the horses pass the winning-post, the Stewards shall
order the race to be run again the same day if prac-
ticable, but if otherwise it shall be void.

To this rule ought to be added, after the word
practicable, ' and all the horses to take part in the

proper race, subject to a fine of if the owners

do not choose to send them to the post again.' The
first race was equivalent to a false start only. Wliat
would people say if, in an ordinary race, ten horses
went to the post, and after one false start eight of
them came back again, and their owners refused to
run them ? Yet the equivalent of this happened in
1889 after the false race in the iN'ewmarket Oaks,
when the Jockey Club Stewards ordered the race to be
run the foUowins^ dav, and none of the starters whose
numbers had been exhibited at the proper time for
the race the day before put in an appearance except
the winner Pamela !

Eule 158, stating that in all races with not less
than five entries, the second horse shall at least save
his stake and entrance, is a kind provision for the
owner, as it is a galling position to occupy, though
there is always the satisfaction of feeling that one's
horse has at any rate shown some form.

Eule 170 deals with the periods of time within
which objections have to be made, and the different
reasons why a horse may be objected to ; and, although
the rule covers the error, it is curious that the actual
words ' carrying under the proper weight ' have not
been instanced as a reason for an objection.

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I should weary readers if I went through every
rule, and now close these criticisms, merely observing
that, although the greater part of the revision of
the Eules has been very ably done, there is still a
good deal that ought to be added to them, besides
which cases crop up at times that need rules to be
framed on purpose to provide for them. It would
certainly help the racing public, however, if all new
rules, or additions to, or alterations in, the new rules
(except in very urgent cases) that are passed during
a year, only came into force at a fixed period, say the
commencement of the following racing season, as it is
much easier to study a quantity of alterations en bloc
than to have them comino- into use at difierent times.

In considering the Eules of Eacing the question
of reciprocity naturally occurs, notwithstanding that
a rule, not long since introduced and lately withdrawn,
designed to exclude foreign horses, has been expunged.
A few years ago Lord Falmouth brought forward a
motion to restrain owners of French horses from
entering in all our races, unless we were permitted to
run our horses in France. Some people thought
that Lord Falmouth ought to have been the last man
to propose the motion, inasmuch as he suffered more
directly than any other owner, having run repeatedly
second in rich stakes, which were won by M. Lefevre
and Count Lagrange ; others argued that England
owned the best horses in the world, and welcomed
foreign horses to throw down the gauntlet against her
fleetest racers. Besides, there was just the faintest
suspicion of narrow-mindedness about the whole busi-
ness. Personally, I was all for foreign horses coming
here, and the Jockey Club, if it had passed Lord

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Falmouth's rule, would have been ungrateful enough
to forget that only a few years before, at the out-
break of the Franco-German war, Xewmarket, then at
a very low ebb, was practically saved by the influx
of German and French horses into this country.
Communications took place between members of the
English and French Jockey Club, with the result that
the latter pointed out how impossible it would be for
them to open their races to English horses, when
so many of them derived the money added from
societies especially promoted for the improvement of
the breed of horses in France. It is a pity that we
have no such Societes de r encouragement in England,
to improve the breed of our horses and to try and get
stayers, a class of animal that in a few years' time in
all probability will be as extinct here as the hare or the
landowner. If Lord Falmouth was the chief sufferer
by the inroads the foreigners made in our valuable
races, I think he was quite right to ventilate the
subject of reciprocity on that score ; but he argued
against his creed, for was he not a Liberal in politics
and therefore a free-trader ! I am not a free-trader,
but as a somewhat impoverished landowner I long
to see a tax levied on every foreigner who comes to
Enoiand to seek work, which he takes out of the
very hands of the Englishman. The latter works for
fixed waf?es, and durino- fixed hours, and is content
to do so all his life, without dreaming of leaving his
native land ; but he has no chance of competing with
the hungry foreigners who come over in shoals from
Germany or elsewhere every year, and pervade the
whole of London like an ants' nest let loose on the
city : and why ? Because the foreigner only comes

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here for a certain number of years, determined to
save enough money to set him up in some business,
and he will work longer hours and for less wages ;
in short he outbids our countrymen, with the result
that the latter go to the wall.

Let the foreigner come, I say, in hundreds or
thousands, but let him pay a tax to do so, on himself
if he wants work, on his racehorses if he wants to
compete for our prizes. But I go even further than
this. Year after year it is positively distressing to find
so many of our best foals, yearlings, racehorses, brood
mares and stallions, sold to go to other countries, and
I should like to see a tax on every thoroughbred
that leaves this country, the money accruing there-
from to be spent in the purchase of sound thorough-
bred stallions, to be located in different parts of
England, at a nominal fee, for the improvement of
the breed of horses. It is a national disgrace that
something of the kind is not done, and too late we
shall find out our culpable neglect. Even now it is
a pitiable sight to see the way some of the men are
mounted in our first-class cavalry regiments, certainly
far worse mounted than the whips of the Atherstone
Hunt for instance ; yet Mr. Oakeley, the popular
master, never paid a large sum for the servants' horses,
but has invariably purchased young horses from
farmers in the country, many of them the produce of
stallions he himself has kept ; but of course the
supply is moderate and there ought to be a hundred
horses bred to every one now.

After Plaisanterie's dual victory in the Cesare-
witch and Cambridgeshire of 1885, Mr. W. G. Craven
brought forward a motion ' That no horse is eligible

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to be handicapped for any public race, unless lie
shall have been habitually trained in the United
Kingdom, or have twice run there during the six pre-
ceding months of the racing season.' It was carried,
and it may be admitted that the idea which suggested
such a motion was a good one, because it ought to
have been a help to the handicapper, who could not
possibly form a correct estimate of a horse's running
power, unless he had seen him run in one or two races ;
and to put a prohibitive weight on foreign horses
because he was ignorant of their merits would not at
all have conformed to the sense of British justice, or
have found favour in the eyes of unprejudiced
people, who liked to see horses of all nations assem-
bled at the post to try conclusions. Nevertheless,
this motion was distasteful to the majority, chiefly
because it was brouo'ht forward at a moment when
a public performer like Plaisanterie, not one that had
been running in races merely to blind the eyes
of the handicapper as to its true merit, had demon-
strated her superiority over the English horses, not
only by winning the Cesarewitch with the con-
siderable weight for a three-year-old of 7 st. 8 lb. on
her back, but by carrying the extra 14 lb. so
gallantly, and winning the Cambridgeshire with 8 st.
12 lb., a performance that has never been equalled
by a filly of her age, and only once eclipsed by a
colt, when Foxhall won with 9 st. in 1881. Neither
did the motion have the result that was anticipated,
as Tenebreuse in 1888 was sent over to run at Ascot
and Goodwood to qualify. Most likely through not
having been properly trained to run long courses she
was well beaten at those meetings, though doing her

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best in the condition she was in at the time ; but she
carried off the Cesar e witch of that year, though
not too hghtly in with 8 st. 12 lb. on her back. In
1889 the rule was done away with. After all, in
the last twenty years, the Cesarewitch has only been
twice won by foreign horses, the two French mares
mentioned above ; but in the shorter race our French
neighbours have been more fortunate, as no less than
four winners have taken the Cambridgeshire between
'73 and '85, viz. Montargis, Peut-etre, Jongleur, and
Plaisanterie, whilst Germany was responsible for one,
when Adonis won in 1870.

Almost at the moment of this book going to press,
a most important alteration has taken place in the
Jockey Club rules, and in the near future we are to
have more races over a distance of ground. Lord
March's motion has been considerably modified since
he first introduced it ; and, although strong opposition
would have been given to it in its original form, even
its antagonists must admit its moderation. My doubt
as to the success of his suggestion only rises from the
fact that it will come into operation too quickly, that
it would have been better to have given it a trial,
which could easily have been done, by the Stewards
of the Jockey Club inviting all Clerks of Courses to
frame their progammes as much as possible according
to the terms of the proposed new rule before the
latter was actually passed, so as to prevent any
chance of having to rescind it, or having to make
fresh alterations within a year. Curiously enough, as
the talk of reviving long races cropped up, so has
the idea of again having half-mile two-year-old racing
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a certain section of owners. I trust the Jockey Club
will set their face against this. The answer to those
people who assert that five furlongs is too far for a
two-year-old to run early in the year is, that when
there were half-mile races, they were run from end
to end ; that if a horse jumped off cross-legged the
jockey had no time to get him into his proper stride
without losing many lengths in doing so ; that five-
furlong races are generally not run at best pace for
more than three hundred yards, and that a jockey
can now once or twice during the race give the horse
breathing time, which was an impossibility to do
during a half-mile race. This I have from the lips of
Tom Cannon, than whom no better authority could
be quoted. This experienced owner, trainer, and
jockey considers it far better for two-year-olds to run
^ve furlongs as they do now than to take part in
those half-mile scrambles where they have to go
from end to end ; and I must say, after carefully
witnessing hundreds of races over both distances, I
cordially agree with him.

Two incidents occurred in 1888 which it may be
profitable to discuss as instances of the difiiculties
with which Stewards have to deal at times, and of
the troubles that arise if common sense and the rules
of racing are ignored.

In the first place a horse called The Celt won a
plate at Sandown, and was objected to by the owner
of the second for carrying 7 lb. short of weight. Before
the race the owner of The Celt had asked the Stewards
of Sandown to decide what weight his horse ought to
carry, and, after sending for the framer of the condi-
tions of the race and learning what his intention was

A COMPLICATION 135

when lie drew tliem up so badly, tliey unfortunately
went more by that than by the actual letter of the
conditions. Being told on the only available authority
what weight his horse ought to carry, the owner of
The Celt instructed his jockey to carry it. No other
course than that which he took was possible.

What the Clerk of the Course ought then to have
done, in my humble opinion, was to publish the deci-
sion of the Stewards in some conspicuous place at once,
so that an owner of any other horse in the race had
a chance of objecting in good time before the hour
fixed for the event. This, however, was not done.
After the objection had been lodged the Sandown
Stewards refused to allow the appeal to the Jockey
Club Stewards ; but, in spite of this, the latter did
entertain the case, and disqualified The Celt for carry-
ing less than his proper weight. Mr. Lowther, the
Senior Steward, in his Gimcrack speech at the end of
the year, upheld this decision of the Jockey Club
Stewards ; but he omitted to tell his hearers that,
after they had disqualified The Celt, and the owner of
that animal had threatened to bring an action against
the Clerk of the Course at Sandown, he advised Mr.
Hwfa Williams (the latter told me so himself) to
give the owner of The Celt the stakes, notwith-
standing that they had then been paid to the suc-
cessful objector. Was this from compassion or
because Mr. Lowther had not the courage of his con-
victions, or that he is vacillating in his decisions, or
that he feared that the Stewards of the Jockey Club
had overruled a decision which they might not have
been qualified to do in spite of the legal opinion they
took, as the Sandown Stewards had refused the appeal?

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Whichever it was, in vaunting forth the praiseworthy
behaviour of the Stewards at a dinner of gentlemen
and tradesmen not Hkely to answer him, he did not
tell them this little detail as I give it to my readers
now ; though no doubt The Celt did, as a matter of
fact, carry the wrong weight.

The other case I have mentioned was at York
August Meeting, when Morton, the trainer of Althorp,
went to the Stewards and asked them what weight
the horse ought to carry, he having won the Lewes
Handicap, worth 164/., since the publication of the
weights for the Great Ebor Handicap, for which
the conditions were as follows : ' The Great Ebor
Handicap Plate of 1,000 sovs., by subscription of 20
sovs. each, 10 ft., and only ^ve if declared on Tuesday
next, August 14th, to Messrs. Weatherby only, for
three-year-olds and upwards ; the winner of any
handicap or race, value 200 sovs., after the publica-
tion of the weights (August 8tli, at 10 a.m.), to carry
7 lb., of two handicaps, or one value 500 sovs., 10 lb.
extra ; one mile and a half over the old course. 31
subs. Closed July 17th, 1888.'

The blot in these conditions is that there was no
€omma after the words ' any handicap,' and that they
miofht be construed into meaning: that the winner of
any handicap after the publication of the weights was
to carry 7 lb. extra, and therefore Althorp had in-
curred that penalty ; or that the handicap won must
have been of the value of 200 sovs. to oblige the
horse to carry the penalty, and then Althorp would
have escaped it, the Lewes Handicap, as already
stated, having been worth only 164/. It is hardly
conceivable that men accepting the office of Stewards

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should have shown themselves so incompetent as to
tell Morton that they could give no decision in the
matter ! What they ought to have done is as plain
as a pikestaff: they ought to have decided that,
as the conditions of the Great Ebor Handicap were
open to two different constructions, Althorp must
carry the 7 lb. penalty, and they ought to have had
a notice published to that effect outside the weighing-
room, and to have told Morton to declare the weight
his jockey was going to ride twenty minutes before
the time fixed for the start. They could have reported
their decision to the Stewards of the Jockey Club,
and have refused to go into any objection made by
any owner who had a horse engaged in the race,
either before or after it. As it was, Morton had
no one to advise him, and decided not to run the
horse.

In the revised Eules of Eacing there is no pro-
vision that I can see made for an occurrence of this
sort. What is the use of giving Stewards power to
determine all questions in reference to racing at a
meeting if they are afraid to exercise that power ?

It would be well for owners of horses if a new
rule were made at once to meet the case, to run
something as follows : ' If an owner or his represen-
tative ask the Stewards to determine what weight his
horse is to carry for a race, or to define the conditions
of a race before it takes place, they shall do so to the
best of their judgment, and give their decision,
which shall be published on a board in a prominent
place, and the Clerk of the Course, or Clerk of the
Scales shall have notice to communicate the Stewards'
decision to owners of horses engaged in the race in

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question or to their representatives, and no objection
after tliis has been done shall be entertained.'

I will now give that part of Mr. Lowther's speech
at the Gimcrack dinner, as reported in ' The Sports-
man ' of December the 8th, 1888, that my readers
may see that what I write about his opinion on these
two cases is correct.

' During the past season, from time to time, con-
siderable interest has been raised by supposed
breaches of the racing law by those who are respon-
sible for its administration. Xotably, certain objec-
tions which have been raised, and decided at different
meetino^s, have been the occasion of comment. I am
not going through them in detail. I will only very
briefly refer to the fact that the decision given by the
Stewards of Sandown on what was known as the Celt
case, and its review and revision by the Stewards of
the Jockey Club, was the occasion of a good deal
of comment. It was supposed by some, that the
Stewards of the Jockey Club had no right to review
the decision of the local Stewards ; but I may say
that, fortified with the very highest legal authority,
which is within the reach of ourselves or anybody
else, we found ourselves called upon to adjudicate
upon the question, and that we arrived at a decision
which I think commended itself upon the merits of
the case to the general concurrence of almost every
person who was capable of construing the language
of the country in which we live. Other cases no
doubt occurred. In this city, even at the last August
meeting, the Stewards of the York races, of which I
myself was not one, were called in question by those
sapient personages, who think themselves superior to

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their fellow men, for their action with regard to
certain questions which arose out of the Ebor Handi-
cap. For my own part, never having been called
upon officially to express any opinion thereon, I may
say, somewhat late in the day, that, in my humble judg-
ment, the Stewards of York were entirely right ; and of
this I am certain, that had their decision come under
the review of the Stewards of the Jockey Club> it
would have been unanimously confirmed. When I
say their decision, I should rather say their refusal to
be drawn into a premature consideration of a question
which had not arrived at a condition at which it
was ripe for their decision. At the same time, in
my humble opinion, the course taken was the right
one.'

Surely the last half-dozen lines of this imply that
the York Stewards were, in the opinion of the Stewards
of the Jockey Club, quite right in refusing to inter-
pret the ambiguous conditions of a race at their
meeting, before that race was run for, and that the
unfortunate owner or manager of the horse might put
up whatever weight he thought right, with the cer-
tainty of an objection if his horse won, but the great
uncertainty as to what Stewards of this mental calibre
and culpable timidity might arrive at in the matter !
In making these remarks on Mr. Lowther's speech, I
trust that my readers will not think that they are in
any way meant for an attack on this gentleman, or
that they exceed the bounds of fair criticism on a
matter of public interest.

In 1889, on the Thursday of the Second October
Meeting at Newmarket, the Newmarket Oaks was,
by accident, or by the carelessness of a Jockey

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Club official, run for over the last mile-and-a-lialf of
the Two Middle Miles, and therefore half-a-mile less
than the proper distance. Mr. Vyner, the owner of
Minthe, who came in second for the race to Pamela,
lodged an objection on his jockey returning to weigh
in. It was the last race of the day, and on that
account I conclude the Stewards did not do what they
ought to have done, according to Part YI. Eule 34,
of the Eules of Pacing, which states, ' If a race has
been run by all the horses at wrong weights, or
over a wrong course or distance, or if the judge
is not in the box, the Stewards shall order it to be
run after the advertised time of the last race of the
same day.' This could perfectly have been done if
the Stewards had been sent for when the objec-
tion was made at scale — supposing that they were
conversant with their own Pules — so as to decide
at once, as there was still light enough to run by ;
but I conclude they wanted time to decide and to
inspect the starting posts, and their decision was,
that the race was to be run over again on the next
day ; but here they committed a grievous error in
not ordering all the horses that had run the wrong-
course to go to the post the next day. What was
the Thursday's race but a false start ? and had they
not in Part VI. Pule 10, the following words to guide
them ? ' If the starter allow a start to take place in
front of the starting post ' (this one was only half a
mile in front ! ) ' the start is void, and the horses must
he started again' On the Friday the winner of the
Thursday's race, Pamela, was allowed to walk over
for the stake, and none of the other horses that had
taken part in the false start put in an appearance

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for the actual race, altliougii their numbers had been
exhibited on the telegraph board a quarter of an
hour before the time fixed for the race the day before,
and although no reason was assigned for their not
starting ; and the Stewards allowed all this to go on
under their eyes without as much as fining the
owners of the non-starters, in spite of the latter part
of Eule 32, which states that if any alteration be made
in a number after it has been exhibited, the Stewards
may call upon the owner, trainer, or jockey for an
explanation, and if no satisfactory one be given, any
of the three may be fined. The authorities have
thus created a precedent for disobeying their own
Eules.

There is a new Eule 142, Part XIX., evidently
intended to meet a case like the above one quoted.
It runs : ' If a race has been run by all the horses at
wrong weights, or over a wrong course or distance,
or if the judge is not in the box at the time the
horses pass the winning post, tlie Stewards shall
order the race to be run again the same day, if
practicable, hut if otherwise, it shall be void ; ' but even
now it is not insisted on that all the horses whose
numbers went up for the race should go to the post
a second time, as I maintain they ought to do, after
their numbers have been exhibited on the telegraph
board for the race ; although there still remains the
old rule which the Stewards took no notice of last
year, now Eule 37 in Part IV., that a start in front of
the starting post, or on a wrong course, is void, and
the horses must be started again.

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CHAPTEE YII

THE ACTION AGAINST LOED DUKHAM

My Eacing Eeminiscences would, of course, be
incomplete if I omitted to speak of tlie action which
I felt constrained to bring against Lord Durham for
the grossly libellous charges he ventured to direct
ao^ainst me at the dinner of the Gimcrack Club at
York in December 1887. My task in the matter is
necessarily one of grave difficulty, for the feeling of
indignation which I experienced when first so unjus-
tifiably and inexcusably assailed has not worn away,
nor ever can do so. It is much to be supported, not
only by the knowledge of absolute innocence, but by
the further assurance that my friends have never for a
moment believed in the possibility of my having
incurred the blame which Lord Durham endeavoured
to fasten on me ; but the sense of having been
grievously wronged remains.

I have pondered much as to the best course to
adopt in endeavouring here to make the truth known.
I am tempted to expatiate on the weakness of the ac-
cusations and to dwell on the completeness with which
they were refuted ; but it might be said that this would
be to present only one side of the story, and having
absolutely nothing to hide, I am most desirous that
the fullest investigation of the whole matter may be
opened to my readers ; and I have, therefore, de-
cided to publish the charges and the whole of my

ACTION AGAINST LORD DURHAM 143

cross-examination by Sir Charles Eussell, and, of
course, re-examination by Sir Henry James. I give
these, therefore, from the shorthand writers' notes,
and present the matter in an appendix with apologies
for its length. To have shortened it, however, would
have been to lay myself open to the suggestion of the
malicious that I had picked and chosen matter which
told with special strength in my favour, and I am
most anxious to avoid such a supposition.

With the exception of a few repetitions, one or
two irrelevant legal arguments, and casual points of
absolutely no importance, the examinations are given
verbatim ; and I leave readers to judge for them-
selves what warrant Lord Durham had for the course
he so rashly pursued. I only wish to remind those
who are inclined to study the trial that for more than
a year every book, letter, and document that could
throw hght on my racing transactions were at the
disposal of my traducers. The fuller the investigation,
the more searching the inquiry, the more thoroughly
I knew the truth must be established, and no scrap
of paper that dealt with the purchase, training,
trying, running, and backing of my horses was with-
held. The suspicion Lord Durham had the temerity
to promulgate was with reference to my horse
PuUerton. Yery soon his lordship and his advisers
found out what was unfortunately the true state of
the case — that so far from FuUerton having been a
source of profit to me, he had been a most disap-
pointing animal and the occasion of considerable loss,
and this charge having broken down they searched
vaguely about for mud to fling in the hope that some
of it might stick. I repubhsh the trial, therefore, in

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order that readers may see for themselves how
entirely the assault failed. ]\ir. James Lowther's
testimony to this effect at the meeting of the Jockey
Club a few days after the finish of the arbitration was
surely as discomfiting to my enemies as it was, of
course, agreeable to myself, though it was tardy
justice.

When rumours reached me to the effect that Lord
Durham had singled me out for attack in his after-
dinner speech, I hesitated to believe it possible.
Friends, however, declared that it was at me he had
ventured to point, and I begged my brother to see
his lordship and obtain either a denial or an admis-
sion. Lord Durham confessed that he had aimed at
me, and I at once set to work to make him do what
he could — what that was the trial will show — to prove
his accusation.

I cannot let pass the opportunity of expressing-
my cordial acknowledgments to Sir Henry James,
Q.C., M.P. — and also to his juniors, Messrs. Pollard,
A. T. Lawrence, and Eufus Isaacs — for the care they
devoted to my case. To Sir Henry my obligations
are especially deep. I was so impatient to have the
matter brought on, after all the delay that had been
occasioned by the other side, that I never even
asked Sir Henry whether it would be convenient
for him to undertake the prosecution for me when
the Jockey Club decided it should come on. He
most good-naturedly devoted himself to me — I may
say at a mom.ent's notice — and from my first consul-
tation with him to the end of the trial my sense of
gratitude increased. I told him unreservedly all 1
could think of with reference to the subjects at issue.

SIR IIEXRY JAMES 145

He pointed out to me the unfair constructions tlie
other side would be sure to put on various matters.
No man could have conducted my case in a more
gentlemanly manner nor have shown me more sym-
pathy and friendliness, believing firmly, as I knew
he did, that I was charged with offences that I had
never dreamed for one single moment of committing.
The case was the more difiicult for him, as he rarely
attends a race meeting, and was absolutely ignorant
of racing matters ; but in spite of all this, so admirably
did he master the subject that I consider he showed
nearly as much knowledge of the many races ex-
tending over four or five years as did Sir Charles
Eussell, who has long been a regular frequenter of
racecourses. All through the trial and at all our
interviews I regarded Sir Henry James more as a
sincere friend than as my counsel.

After my cross-examination he sent for me, asked
me to go to Sherrard and to Wood, and to te'U
them if there was anything they had to fear it was
certain to come out in the witness-box, and they had
better speak out at once. Both of them expressed
their entire confidence in the result of any examina-
tion to which they might be subjected, said they
had nothing to conceal, and were perfectly ready
to be called. It is to be regretted that in this they
did not speak with more frankness. Beyond doubt
they knew that I was absolutely ignorant of their
private transactions, and I am convinced that they
had never sinned against me. I ask my readers^
What really serious offence was ever proved against
Wood throughout two long trials ? Certainly not
that he had ever pulled a horse. All that came out

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against liim was what he confessed himself, viz., that
he had broken the rules of the Jockey Club by owning
horses when he was forbidden to do so ; and he had
the honesty to say besides, that from beginning to
end I had no knowledge that he did own these horses.
No doubt he committed an offence in owning horses
when he was expressly- told he was not to do so ; but
what has been his punishment ? After it had cost
him thousands of jDOunds to prove that he did not
pull Success — and every man who knows anything
about racing now fully understands the baselessness
of the charge — his licence has been taken away, and
he has been virtually warned off the Turf as if he
were an ordinary welsher or thief. The written law
of England defines a period of punishment for every
offence ; the unwritten law of the Jockey Club gives
life sentences as it chooses !

My lawyer, Mr. Sydney, originally wrote to me
about Lord Durham's speech, having heard from a
friend that he admitted making? accusations as^ainst
me, and afterwards, out of friendship for me, took
my case up professionally ; and I shall never forget
the feeling he showed on the Saturday night, just
after the verdict was published, on my return home,
utterly unconscious of what was in store for me.
An attempt was made to get up a subscription for
Lord Durham as a mark of esteem ; but no one can
be surprised at the failure of this movement, for
what Lord Durham did was to bring as foul a set of
charges against an innocent man as was ever drawn
up on the sheet charges at the Old Bailey, and this
surely was not an excusable proceeding ! The sub-
scription was undertaken by Mr. Leo Agar EUis, a

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gentleman with no very special sense of discrimina-
tion ; for wlien bound for IS'ewmarket to tout for
donations he calmly begged me to let him occupy a
seat in my reserved compartment in the Liverpool
Street special ! I have reason to know that Steel,
the head of the bookmakers, when he was asked to
contribute to this fund, spoke his mind out about
the treatment to which I had been subjected, and
utterly declined to have anything to do with it.
Most of the other bookmakers, I believe, followed
suit, and from that it may be gathered that they did
not believe I had conspired with my servants to rob
them by pulling horses and such like malpractices.
After Mr. Ellis had laboured for a year a meeting
was summoned, and the magnificent total of 329Z.
odd, which was intended to recoup Lord Durham for
his outlay in defence of Mr. Cox and his own defence
in my action against him, was presented to him. He
wisely scorned to take it, and has presented it to the
Bentinck Benevolent Fund, reserving only for him-
self in an album the names of the subscribers, about
some of which most stringent remarks have been
made. It is only fair to say that General Owen
Williams, whose name was mentioned amongst them,
did not subscribe.

The gossips, scandal-mongers, and luncheon-
hunters had a fine time after Lord Durham's speech,
and the proceedings that immediately followed it.
Wliat a sorry class of men they are ! Clinging to
the rich friends they toady and make themselves
useful to, they drop in with the latest malicious
rumour they have picked up. Li greeting a friend
they have not lately seen, they retail scandal with em-

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bellislimeiits of tlieir own, and in return for tlie news
they thus provide, they have the run of their rich
friends' table, ride their hunters, shoot their coverts,
and sometimes even give themselves airs, and assume
the role that nothing is good enough for them, finding
fault with everything that comes in their way. Well,
this was the class of men that spread every sort of
story about my supposed iniquitous doings on the
Turf; all of which stories were carefully repeated to
me, more to my amusement than surprise, knowing
the sources through which they filtered.

Two individuals, actuated by private spite and
their own evil minds, declared that I had been guilty
of the most flagrant dishonesty in connection with
Fullerton, never backing him when he was beaten,
and winning largely when he won. One of these
men appeared in court during my cross-examination,
and, at the moment that Sir Charles Eussell asked me
' Has anyone told you to your face about the sup-
posed suspicious running of your horses ? ' I was
enabled to turn round as I gave my answer, and to
face this creature, who speedily left the court, and
did not appear there again during the rest of the
trial. Their malice had little effect, as it was too
palpable, and they were secretly laughed at in the
Carlton and Turf Clubs, while the only feeling pro-
duced in my mind was that of utter contempt for them
and their inventions. The other side, too, asserted
that there were all sorts of proofs against me, and I
have been told that the best known criminal lawyer
in Ely Place was good enough to say that I should
never dare come into court ! The verdict I had
to submit to, unsatisfactory as it was to me, cleared

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me of all the spiteful calumnies of my enemies, and
the week after its delivery, at the special meeting
of the Jockey Club, when my letter was read bowing
to the decision of the arbitrators (from which there
was no appeal), and asking to be allowed to tender
my resignation as a member of the club, Mr. Lowther,
the Senior Steward, stated that I had been entirely
exonerated from all the serious charges. It is hardly
credible, therefore, that within three weeks of this
statement, at the Sandown July Meeting, when I
happened to be in the Stewards' Stand, set apart for
members of the Jockey Club and of the Grand
National Hunt Committee (of which latter body I
am a member). Lord Durham allowed his malice to
carry him so far as to call to Sir Frederick Johnstone,
one of the Stewards, and demand what ri^iit I had to
be there ! Although Sir Frederick was not aware
that, as a member of the G. N. H. Committee, I had
as much right in the stand as anyone else, his answer
was characteristic of the true gentleman that he is,
' If you mean by that, that you want me to turn
George Chetwynd out of this stand, I will see you
d d first.'

I quote this little episode to show the world with
what vindictiveness Lord Durham pursued me,
though his action, far from doing me the slightest
harm, only recoiled on his own head, and I feel
certain I am correct in assumincf that not one sino-le
other member of the Jockey Club would ever have
'been capable of such proceedings.

It is on account of this behaviour, and the nature
of the verdict, that I have been induced to impose
on my readers the complete list of charges that Lord

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Durham made against me, together with my examina-
tion-in-chief, and my cross-examination, besides the
solemn denial of Wood and Sherrard that I had ever
been a party to, or had any knowledge of, any of
their transactions, whatever they may have been.
Comments are unnecessary. Those of my readers
who care to read the appendix will be able to form
their own conclusion.

Someone told me that the Lord Chief Justice
shook his head when he heard that my case was to be
submitted to arbitration. How right he was I now
know. I paid a bad compliment to my countrymen
in refusing to believe that twelve of them, even
thouo^h iOTiorant of the thousand little details con-
nected with racing, were quite competent to decide
between [' right and wrong,' between ' honesty and
dishonesty ' ! I shall never believe that they would
have assigned me merely nominal damages for the
wrong I had suffered ; but I pledged myself to abide
by the decision of the arbitrators, and, whether I like
it or not, I have ' got to ' submit to it. Even the result,
unexpected as it was, was better than having to keep
silent for a year and a half under the infamous
charges that were advanced.

APPENDIX.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.
Between— SIR GEORGE CHETWYND, Bart. Plaintiff

AND

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOIHST
GEORGE, EARL OF DURHAM Defendant

PAETICULARS OF JUSTIFICATION.

The following are the Particulars of Justification delivered in
pursuance of an Order of Master the Honourable Robert Butler,
dated 18th April, 1888 :—

1. The jockey who is therein referred to as suspected or
known to be guilty of pulling horses is Charles Wood, who for-
merly held a riding retainer from the plaintiff as his principal
jockey, and who was formerly the principal jockey riding for
Sherrard's stables at Newmarket.

2. The well-known racing stable referred to in the same
paragraph is the stable occupying premises at Chetwynd House,
Newmarket, where racehorses are trained by one R. Sherrard,
and in which racehorses either belonging to or running in th&
names of Lord Lurgan, Sir George Arthur, Mr. H. Hungerford,
Mr. E. B. Barnard, Mr. E. Benzon, General Owen Wilhams, the
plaintiff, and the said R. Sherrard were trained.

3. The following horses are those referred to by the defen-

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dant as conspicuous throughout the racing season of 1887 for
their constant and inexplicable in-and-out running : —

Fullerton,

Acme,

Never,

Whitefriar,

Helmsley,

Torchlight,

Plantagenet,

Sly,

Cassimere,

Abelard,

Gordon,

Eose Window

Brighton,

Portnellan,

The aforesaid horses, during the said racing season of 1887, were
not fairly ridden to win the races in which they ran.

4. The plaintiff, upon every occasion when the said horses ran,
won large sums of money when they were successful, but lost
very small sums of money, or no money at all, when they were
beaten. The exact amount of the winnings and losses respec-
tively the defendant has no sufficient knowledge at present.

5. The plaintiff employed the said Charles Wood as his
jockey upon the occasions when the said Charles Wood rode
for him because he thought that the said Charles Wood was a
jockey who could square other jockeys in the races in which
he rode.

6. The plaintiff has failed to maintain the fair reputation of
the Turf, and he has broken the rules of racing law and the code
of honour amongst gentlemen, and has connived at serious
malpractices which are contrary to the rules of racing in the
following respects :

7. The plaintiff, during the year 1885, was part owner with
his jockey, the said Charles Wood, and one Samuel Lewis, whose
interest he had not registered with the proper racing authorities,

in the following horses

3 '.

Fullerton,

Columbine,

Mint Lozenge,

Vivacious,

Quilt,

Kinfauns,

Oxford Swell,

Zadig,

Forna,

Eed Clove,

Goldsmith,

Domino,

Taormina,

Lucebit,

Pampas Grass,

Goldfield,

Kimbolton,

Droitwich,

Giesshubler,

Gay,

Spread Eagle,

Lovely,

Bay Comus,

Eeservation,

Spectrum,

Kmgwood,

Plantagenet.

\Gordon,

Coy,

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153

8. The plaintiff, during the year 1886, was part owner with
his jockey, the said Charles Wood, and the said Samuel Lewis,
whose interest he had not registered with the proper racing
authorities, in the following horses : —

Giesshubler, Fullerton, Zadig,

Vivacious, Oxford Swell, Kaunitz,

Spread Eagle, Macleod, Mechlin,

Kinfauns, King wood, Brighton,

Plantagenet, Stetchworth, Whitefriar,

Excelsior, Never, Spectrum,

Pampas Grass, Quilt, Goldsmith.

Gordon, Mary II.,

9. The plaintiff, during the year 1887, was part owner with
his jockey, the said Charles Wood, and tlie said Samuel Lewis,
whose interest he had not registered with the proper racing
authorities, in the following horses : —

Giesshubler, Fullerton, Goldsmith,

Portnellan, Gordon,

Never, Whitefriar,

Abelard, Sly,

King Galop, Gubat.

Plantagenet,

Brighton,

Kingwood,

Dagobert,

Stetchworth,

10. The plaintiff, during the year 188(3, was part owner with
one George Baird, who races under the name of Mr. Abington,
in several racehorses, in which their joint interest had not been
registered with the proper racing authorities.

11. The plaintiff, during the year 1887, was part owner with
one George Baird, who races under the name of Mr. Abington,
in several racehorses, in which their joint interest had not been
registered with the proper racing authorities.

12. The plaintiff, during the year 1885, was cognisant of, and
party to, the following horses being entered to run in races in the
name of his trainer, E. Sherrard, with the knowledge that the
said E. Sherrard was not the owner of the said horses, and that
his jockey, the said Charles Wood, was owner or part owner of
them : —

The Samaritan, Perugia, Victorious Chief,

Oxford Swell, Yardley, Bo'.vman.

Malvern,
11. M

3 54 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

13. The plaintiff, during the year 1886, was cognisant of, and
party to, the following horses being entered to run in races
in the name of his trainer, R. Sherrard, with the know-
ledge that the said R. Sherrard was not the owner of the said
horses, and that his jockey, the said Charles Wood, was owner,
or part owner, of them : —

Malvern, Bay Colt, by King Lud, Cliftonian,

Commotion, Bard of Erin, Allegra.

Martial, Brownie,

14. The plaintiff, during the year 1887, was cognisant of, and
party to, the following horses being entered to run in races in
the name of his trainer, R. Sherrard, with the knowledge that
the said R. Sherrard was not the owner of the said horses, and
that his jockey, the said Charles Wood, was owner, or part
owner, of them : —

Cliftonian, Cassimere, Paris II.

Bard of Erin, Brownie,

15. In the years 1885, 188G, and 1887 the plaintiff was in-
terested as owner, or part owner, in all the horses running in the
names of Lord Lurgan during those years, and failed to register
his interest in the said horses with the proper racing authorities.

16. In the year 1887 the plaintiff was cognisant of, and party
to, the running of horses in the name of Mr. E. B. Barnard, of
which the said Charles Wood was either owner, or part owner,
to the plaintiff's knowledge.

17. In the year 1887 the plaintiff was interested as owner or
part owner in all the horses running in the name of Mr. Benzon,
and failed to register his interest in the said horses with the
proper racing authorities.

18. During the year 1886 the plaintiff ran the aforesaid liorse
Fullerton in the following races : —

30 April ... The Fourth Welter Handicap Plate, at Newmarket.

27 July ... The Stewards' Cup, at Goodwood.

28 July ... The Chesterfield Cup, at Goodwood.

The plaintiff intended that the said horse should not win the
said race or any of them, with a view of inducing the handicapper
to handicap the said horse on more favourable terms in subse-

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quent races, to the prejudice of other owners who were mtending
to run then' horses against the said horse Fullerton.

The xolaintiff, upon the occasions aforesaid, did not back the
said horse to win, as the said horse was not intended to win the
races in which he ran.

19. During the year 1887 the plaintiff ran the said horse
Fullerton in the following races : —

23 March . . . The Lincolnshire Handicap, at Lincoln.

7 May ... The Jubilee Stakes, at Kempton Park.

2 June ... The Manchester Cup, at Manchester.

3 June . . . The Wilton Plate, at Manchester.
26 July ... The Stewards' Cup, at Goodwood.
31 August ... The Glen Plate, at Leicester.

10 October ... The Trial Plate, at Newmarket.

13 October ... The Autumn Handicap, at Newmarket.

The plaintiff intended that the said horse should not win the
races, or any of them, with a view of inducing the handicapper
to handicap the said horse on more favourable terms in subse-
quent races, to the prejudice of other owners who were intending
to run their horses against the said horse Fullerton.

The plaintiff, upon the occasions aforesaid, did not back the
said horse to win, as the said horse was not intended to win any
of the said races.

20. During the year 1887, the plaintiff also ran the said
horse Fullerton in the following races : — -

12 April ... The Crawfurd Plate, at Newmarket.

13 October ... The Babraham Plate, at Newmarket.

28 October ... The Select Handicap Plate, at Newmarket.

In consequence of the aforesaid devices of the plaintiff, the
said horse Fullerton, by reason of his being handicapped upon
terms which were unfair to the other horses which ran in the
same races, won the said races.

The plaintiff' backed the said horse upon each of the last-
named occasions for large sums of money, which he won, the
exact amounts of which the defendant has no sufficient know-
ledge at present ; and the said Charles Wood was interested in
the said bets, and backed the said horse and won money on his
own account.

21. The plaintiff was cognisant of, and party to, the running

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of the following horses unfairly and not upon their true merit?,
and not with a view of winning the races in which they ran, in
the year 1884 :—

DATE. HOESE.

10 September ... McMahon

21 October

22 October
22 October

... Lucebit
... Lovely
... Kinfauns

EACE.

Rufford Abbey Stakes, at Don-
caster.

Maiden Plate, at Newmarket.

Stand Handicap, at Newmarket.

Ditch Mile Handicap, at New-
market.

22. The plaintiff was cognisant of, and party to, the running-
of the following horses unfairly and not upon their true merits,
and not with a view of winning the races in which they ran, in
the year 1886 :—

DATE.

HOESE.

27 July

.. Brighton .

4 August

.. Monsieur d

Paris

14 September .

. Strathblane.

EACE.

de

Stewards' Cup, at Goodwood.

Lonsdale Plate, at York.
FitzwilHam Stakes, at Doncaster.

23. The plaintiff was cognisant of, and party to, the running
of the following horses unfairly and not upon their true merits,
and not with a \dew of winning the races in which they ran, in
the year 1887 :—

EACE.

Trial Plate, at Epsom.
Cadogan Plate, at Newmarket.
Maiden Plate, at Newmarket.
Knighton Plate, at Leicester.
Lavant Stakes, at Goodwood.
Chichester Stakes, at Goodwood.
Marine Stakes, at Brighton.
Prince of Wales Nursery, at

Doncaster.
Sandown Nursery Plate, at

Sandown Park.
Sandown Nursery Plate, at

Sandown Park.

DATE.

HOESE.

19 April

. Brighton ...

8 April

. Brighton ...

5 July

. Abelard

20 July

. Rose Window

27 July

.. Rose Window

29 July

.. Gordon

2 August

.. Shimmer ...

C September .

.. Cassimere ...

9 September .

.. Cassimere ...

9 September .

.. Acme

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157

DATE.

13 September ..

15 September ..

27 September ..

28 September ..

11 October

26 October

4 November ..

12 November . .

HOESE.

Torchlight ...

Helmsley ...
Hehnsley . . .
Plantagenet
Portnellan ...

Kose Wmdow

Success
Success

14 November ... Rose Wmdow

EACE.

Doncaster Welter Plate, at Don-
caster.

Eous Plate, at Doncaster.

Maiden Plate, at Sandown Park.

Welter Handicap, at Newmarket.

Ancaster Welter Handicap, at
Newmarket.

New Nursery Plate Handicap,
at Newmarket.

Juvenile Selling Plate, at Lewes.

Racing Selling Plate, at Alexan-
dra Park.

Chesterfield Nursery Handicap,
at Derby.

24. The plaintiff and the said Charles Wood, knowing that a
horse named Never, running in the name of the plaintiff, was
lame, and unable to take part in a race on the 24th May, ] 887,
in the Norbury Selling Plate, at Epsom, allowed the said horse
to be taken to the starting-post as if to take part in the said
race.

25. During the years 1885, 188G, and 1887, whilst the
plaintiff was employing the said Charles Wood as his jockey to
ride races, the said Charles Wood had made money advances to,
and money payments for and on behalf of, the said plaintiff, and
upon terms which were inconsistent with the said plaintiff's
independence of action in controlling the said Charles Wood as
his jockey.

26. During the years 1885, 1886, and 1887, the said Charles
Wood was uniformly interested in the betting operations of the
plaintiff, in the betting operations of the said Lord Lurgan, and
in the betting operations of the said E B Barnard,
made for, and on behalf of, the said plaintiff and the said Charles
Wood.

27. The said plaintiff was aware that his jockey, the said
Charles Wood, habitually betted upon horseraces.

Delivered this 26th day of April, 1888, by Messrs. Lewis and
Lewis, of 10 and 11 Ely Place, Holborn, E.G., Solicitors for the
defendant.

15^ EXPERIEXCES OF THE TURF

Sir Geokge Chetwynd, sworn, examined by Sir Heney
James, said he was the Plaintiff in this case. He resided near
Atherstone, in Warwickshire, and first became connected with
racing twenty-one years ago, or twenty years ago, before he was of
age, in 1869. He then became an owner of racehorses, and
trained with Bloss. Captain Machell was the head of the stable,
and Bloss was the trainer. He continued training with Bloss
about three years, and then took his horses to Saunders, at Hed-
nesford, about twenty miles from his own place. Afterwards he
went to Henry Walcott, of Beckhampton, and when trainmg with
Walcott first became acquainted with Charles Wood, the jockey,
in 1877, the year his horse Chypre won the Ascot Stakes. Wood
rode. Sir George went on to say that he next trained with
Joseph Dawson, who died about 1880 ; and during the time he
trained with Joseph Daw^son Sherrard was in the stable m the
capacity of head travelling man and confidential agent of Mr.
Joseph Dawson. After Mr. Joseph Dawson's death, Mrs. Dawson
carried on the business of the stables, with Sherrard as head
trainer, and he continued in that position until 1882, going then
to Nunnery House, where he stayed until 1884, when he went to
the house that is called Chetwynd House. At the time Mrs.
Dawson had the business, with Sherrard managing. Sir George
had horses at Mrs. Dawson's, and took them wdth Sherrard to
Nunnery House. They also followed him to Chetwynd House.
Wood rode at first occasionally, and then Sir George became his-
first master at the Nunnery stables. He then rode for him when
he could ride the weight, and when wanted, and he rode for others
also, continuing to do so mitil his licence was suspended at the
end of 1887. Other gentlemen trained with Sherrard when he
was with Mrs. Dawson. Mr. Crawfurd was the owner of race-
horses in the stable, and there w^ere also Mr. T. E. Walker, Mr.
W. E. Marshall, Mr. Montgomery, a French gentleman. Lord
Suffolk had a horse, Mr. Montgomery had two, Mr. Marshall had
three or four, but it was a very small stable. When Sherrard
went to Chetwynd House he trained for Lord Lurgan; Sir George
Arthur, Mr. H. Hungerford, Mr. E. B. Barnard, Mr. E. Benzon,
General Owen Williams, the Plaintiff, and Mr. W. R. Marshall,
and Mr. Montgomery.

Sir Heney James : Now I will direct your attention, Sir
George, to this horse Fullerton. When did Fullerton first

APPENDIX 159

become your property? — In 1885 — September 1885. I gave
1,500Z. for him. He only ran once for me in 1885, but several
times for Mr. Cannon, of whom I bought the colt. He ran on
the 8th October in the Inauguration Nursery Handicap, at
Leicester. He started second favourite, and carried 8 st., 12 lb.,
and was beaten about by twenty lengths.

We have no allegation as to that, but I will ask you the ques-
tion. Did you back the horse that time, or not ? — Yes, I did,
I backed him for 165/. myself, and for a few friends as well. I
personally lost lOOZ. on him.

As far as you are concerned your betting books have been
produced ? — Yes.

In respect of everything connected with this case there has
been full investigation. Everything asked for, I am told, has been
furnished to my friend's clients. The extracts are large ? — Yes,
400 races.

Do you know whether everything in your books that existed
was shown ? — Everything we were asked for we showed.

What was your opinion of the horse at the end of 1885 ? —
My opinion was that I had made a great mistake in giving 1,5001.
for it.

Was there any attempt to get rid of it in the end of 1885 ? — ■
Yes, I wrote to Sherrard and told him I thought it was a bad
purchase, and I should be willing to lose 300Z. by it. I adver-
tised the horse in the ' Racing Calendar,' and the price was
1,200Z.

Now I will take you, if you please, to the year 1886 — the
30th April, the Fourth Welter Handicap at Newmarket. Before
that race, had you learnt from Sherrard what condition the horse
was in ? — Yes, he was totally unfit.

Why was he run ? — Because Sherrard said he could not get
the sun on him ; he could not get him to sweat.

In consequence of what you learnt from Sherrard, did you
communicate with Major Egerton, the handicapper ? — I did, I
told him I could not allow the horse to run without pointing
out to him how utterly unfit he was, and therefore he was to
take no notice of his performance.

The charge here is, ' That the Plaintiff intended that the
said horse should not win the said races, or any of them, with a
view of inducing the handicapper to handicap the horse on

160 EXPEraE^•CES of the tuef

more favourable terms.' Tell me exactly, as far as you recol-
lect, what it was you told Major Egerton. — I went up to Major
Egerton in the stand at Newmarket, or rather in the enclosure
in front of the stand at Newmarket. I took him near the rails
and I said, ' I am running Fullerton this time, but he is totally
unfit, and I only do it by Sherrard's advice, who says that a race
will excite the horse and make him sweat, which he has never
been able to do at home, and it will be an immense help to him
to train him.'

The next race referred to is the 27th July, the Stewards'
Cup, at Goodwood. It was a race won by Crafton. I have in
McCall the statement that Fullerton is quoted nominally at 100
to 1. Did you back Fullerton at all in that race ? — Yes, I did ;
I took 1,000 to 20 about him with Robert Lee, a well-known
bookmaker.

Then on the 28th July, the next day, Fullerton ran again in
the Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood ? — Yes.

Did you back Fullerton on that occasion ? — Yes. I took the
same bet from Head, who happened to be standing next me.

You backed him to win 1,000Z., you say ? — Y'es, with Head.

Sir Charles Russell : My friend is referring to McCall, but
we have the ' Racing Calendar.' That is the official record.

Sir Henry James : But McCall gives more. It gives more
horses, and where they finished. Sometimes it gives eight
or ten.

Mr. Lowther : The ' Calendar ' does not profess to be an
official record of bets. vSo far as the state of the odds is con-
cerned you must not take the * Racing Calendar ' as giving an
official record.

Sir Henry James : In addition to the three races that are
given m those particulars, did Fullerton run in that year ? — No.

So he did not win at all that year ? — No.

Now turn to your betting book for the 23rd March, 1887. It
is true that the horse did run for the Lincolnshire Handicap ? —
Yes.

How much did you back the horse for ?— 427/. 10s. I lost
personally 427/. 10s. on it.

According to a book I have before me, Fullerton started at
10 to 1, and it is so in the ' Racing Calendar.' The race was
won by Oberon, carrying 7 st. 8 lb., and Fullerton carried 7 st.

APPENDIX 161

10 lb. Give me again, if you please, the exact sum you backed the
horse for, first in gross, and then how much you kept for your-
self.— I backed the horse for 742^. 10s. altogether, 215/J. for
friends.

And you made one hedging bet ? — Yes ; I telegraphed down
to Robert Lee the day before the race to ask him to lay the odds
to 100/. against Fullerton. I limited him to a price, and he laid
me 600 to 100.

The Arbitrators see the price you got for it, 10,495Z. to 742Z.,
so that it was a good hedging bet ? — I took the bet for the
purpose of hedging.

The charge in this particular states, ' The Plaintiff upon the
occasions mentioned there did not back the said horse to win, as
the horse was not intended to win any of the said races.' Were
those bets which you have mentioned hond-fidc bets in the hope
the horse would win ? — Certainly.

As far as the horse could win did you intend it to win ? —
Certainly.

Did you back any other horse for any larger amount ? — No.
I backed a horse called 8t. George for 30Z. and another one for
20/., Harpenden, who did not run.

Now I pass on to the Jubilee Stakes at Kempton Park.
What did you back the horse for ? — I backed him for 200/.

What were the odds that you got ? — On the Friday, the
Second Spring Meeting at Newmarket, Piobert Lee laid me 1,000
to 60 against Fullerton, and after that F. Brewer took for me
2,000 to 140, making 200/. which I had on the horse. So that
it was 3,000/. to 200/. It was all for myself.

Now come to the 2nd June, 1887, the Manchester Cup.
Fullerton ran again ? — Yes.

What did you back Fulleiton for then ? — Over 1,000/.

What odds did you get ?— 9,000 to 1,000, of which 675/. was
my own.

Did you lose that amount in consequence of Fullerton's
losing ? — I did. The actual loss on the race was 525/., but the
sum I lost on Fullerton himself was 675/.

Did you back another horse to win ? — Yes, the winner,
Carlton, for a small sum. I had 25/. on Carlton, a horse of the
Duke of Beaufort's.

But, as far as Fullerton is concerned, you lost 675/. ? — Yes.

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He again was, of course, the best liorse for you in the race ?
—Yes.

The next day, the 3rd June, you started him for the Wilton
Plate at Manchester, won by a horse called King Monmouth ? —
Yes.

Notwithstanding King Monmouth won, they laid 15 to 8 on
Fullerton ?— Yes.

What bet did you make upon that? — I lost myself 1,010Z.
upon him.

The odds were 15 to 8 on Fullerton. Speaking with all re-
spect to the other horses, did you believe the horse would win
when you laid those odds on him ? — Yes, I did.

He started with the odds against him the day before when
running for the Cup ? — He had beaten King Monmouth several
lengths in the Manchester Cup. Fullerton was fourth, and King
Monmouth eighth in that race.

Did you honestly believe, looking at King Monmouth's run-
ning, that he would win the race ? — Yes.

What is Fullerton's best distance ? ^A mile.

And the Wilton Plate was a mile ? — Yes.

W^hat was the distance of the Cup that Carlton won? — A
mile and three-quarters — a mile and six furlongs.

Again I must ask you. Sir George, did you honestly believe
that the horse would win when you backed him and lost 1,010L ?
—I did.

Now I will come to the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, on the
26th July. That was a very large field, I see. Fullerton started
second favourite. Did you back the horse on that occasion ? —
Yes, for IdOl. ; 175/. of which was for myself.

Now go to the next in the list, the Glen Plate, at Leicester,
on the 31st August. — I was not present myself, but Brewer put
me 200L on him.

Anyhow, you had to pay ? — Anyhow, I had to pay 2001. I
have no knowledge whether he put it on starting price or on the
course, but he put it on. Bessie won, carrying 6 st. 61b. ; Fuller-
ton carried 9 st., and was fourth.

So that he was giving the winner considerable weight? —
Yes ; 2 St. 8 lb.

The two last in the hst are the Newmarket Meeting in Octo-
ber. The first is the Trial Plate, on the 10th October. What
bets had you on that race ? — 3501.

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Who made the bet ? — Lord Lnrgan did it for me.

Eada won. She afterwards ran second in the Oaks, I be*
lieve ? — Yes, and beat Orbit in a big race at Ascot.

And you lost 350^. by the horse losing ? — Yes.

Now, the last in the list is the Autumn Handicap, at New-
market, on October 13th. That would be the same meeting. It
was won by Lai Brough, carrying 6 st. 2 lb., Fullerton carrying
9 st. 2 lb. What money had you on the horse for that race ? —
250Z.

Did you back any other horse in that race ?— Y^es, I took
lOOZ. to 251. about the Braw Lass, and 1001. to 201. about Lai
Brough.

But still Fullerton was your best horse, considerably ? — Y"es,
I lost 2501., on that race.

Now, those are the races in 1877 that the horse lost. Give
me now the races he won. There was the Crawfurd Plate, on
the 12th April, at Newmarket. What did you back the horse
for ?— For 2501.

Then on the 13th April, the Babraham Plate, at Newmarket.
What did you back the horse for on that occasion? — I backed
him for 250/.— 450Z. to 2501. Then I had 80/. on Oberon, the
second, so I won on the race 370/.

I see that the Babraham Plate, that Fullerton won, was one
mile — the Rowley Mile ? — Y^es, the Eowley Mile.

The Crawfurd Plate is under a mile— 6 furlongs ? — Y^es.
- Then the last is the 28th October, the Select Handicap Plate
at Newmarket. That again was the same course as the
Babraham Plate — the Rowley Mile ? — Y^es.

What did you back the horse for on that occasion ? — 150/. —
133/. for myself — and won 495/. on the race.

I want you to give the Arbitrators the summary for Fuller-
ton in 1887. Can you tell me. Sir George, whether this is
correct ? Did you back the horse for 3,287/. when he lost ? —
Yes.

And did you back the horse for 570/. when he won ? — Y^es.

Having backed him for 3,287/. you lost that amount ? — Y^es.

Did the 570/., the amount you backed him for when he won,
produce the amount of 2,190/. ? — Y^es.

/ So that on Fullerton, in 1887, you lost 1,097/., or nearly
.1,100/. ?— That is correct.

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I will now refer to paragraph 3. You recollect that the
names of fourteen horses are given. I do not know whether
it is necessary to go through all these horses and the bets, but I
will take it as shortly as I can.

Sir Chaeles Russell : If my friend appeals to me, as far as
I am concerned I will call attention in my cross-examination to
the matters which I think material, and my friend will have an
opportunity of re-examining upon it. He is entitled, of course,
to go through all of these if he pleases ; but a great deal of it I
shall not trouble the Court w^ith at all.

Sir Heney James : I am obhged to my friend for that con-
cession. It will shorten what I have to ask w^ith regard to these
horses. Acme, Helmsley, Torchlight, Cassimere, and Rose
Window did not belong to you ? — No.

Were those five horses in Sherrard's stable ? — Yes. Acme is
Lord Lurgan's, Helmsley belonged to Mr. Hungerford, Torchhght
to Lord Lurgan, Cassimere was Sherrard's own, and Rose Window
Sir George Arthur's.

I will take this very shortly. Without going through the
details of the races, can you give me (if not, you will prepare it
by to-morrow morning) the result of your backing of Whitefriar
in 1887. It has been taken by some one as 755/. Is. ? — I won
755/. on him.

Then Plantagenet ?— I won 1,282/. 10s.

Abelard ?— I won 25/.

What did you do with Brighton ? — On Brighton I lost 45/.

With Sly you lost 430/. ?— Yes.

On Gordon you won 185/. ? — I won 135/.

Then Portnellan ?— I lost 1,085/.

On Never I beheve you lost 256/. ? — Yes.

I do not know whether you have added up the result. Your
loss, including FuUerton, comes to 2,898/. What is the total
loss on all these horses? — 701/.

You can, of course, make out your bets on those horses ? — Oh,
certainly. It is a loss, I know.

I need scarcely ask you. You are prepared to answer any
question Sir Charles Russell may put to you about them? —
Certainly.

I must go back a little in point of date, to the year 1884.
The first is M'Mahon, the Ru£ford Abbey Stakes, at Doncaster, on

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September lOtli. Did that liorse M'Malion belong to 3011 in
1884 ?— Yes.

Did he run for you at Derby on September Gth ?^Yes, two
or three days before. He ran badly, and was last but one in the
race.

He went on to Doncaster on September 10th. Did you enter
him again in the Rufford Abbey Stakes ? — Yes.

Why was that ? — I was going to enter him in a selling race,
and Wood told me he would not be good enough to win it, so I
entered him in this.

Had you another horse in that race ? — Yes, Columbine. I
had 4:751. on her ; 5001. was put on her altogether. I thought
she was sure to win the race.

Taking the three next that are mentioned, they all occur at
the Second October Meeting at Newmarket ? — Yes.

What do you know about those horses ? In the first place,
are the last three yours ? — Yes, they are all mine ; at least, one
half is somebody else's ; half of Kmfauns belonged to Sir George
Arthur.

Did you back those horses ? — Yes, I backed Lovely for a
small sum, to win 300L Goater rode the horse.

As far as you are concerned did you have anything to do with
those horses not running on their merits to wdn ? — Certainly not.
I gave distinct orders about them — that they had been slightly
amiss, he was to do his best to win, but if he found he could not
possibly win he need not abuse them. They had been coughing.
In all the three races I gave my jockey. Wood, up to ride other
people's horses, and told my trainer to get the best jockey he
could.

Beyond what you have told us, did you give any instructions
to Goater ? — None at all. I gave him his orders w^hen he got on
the horse in the Birdcage.

Now I will go to July 22nd, Brighton, in the Stewards' Cup
at Goodwood. Whose horse was Brighton ? — Mr. Hungerford's.
I had nothing to do with the liorse. Goater rode it, I afterwards
found out, but I do not know anything at all about its running,
and I did not notice him.

Did you, directly or indirectly, have any cognisance of any-
thing improper taking place in relation to that liorse ? — Not at
all.

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Til en in respect to the second liorse on the hst, Monsieur de
Paris, on the 4th August, in the Lonsdale Plate at York, whose
liorse was that ? — Mr. Hungerford's.

Did you back it ? — Yes, I took three against the field for 125L,
and lost it.

Then take the third horse mentioned, Strathblane, in the
Fitz-WilHam Stakes at Doncaster. To whom did that belong ? —
Mr. Hammond.

Had you anything to do with that horse ? — Nothing.

As to the selections of the jockey or anything ? — Nothing.

You had no bet, I believe ? — I backed another animal in the
race.

I see Strathblane started at 7 to 1, and was beaten by
Lucerne ? — Yes.

The charge is that you were cognisant of that horse, Strath-
l)lane, not running upon its true merits, and not with a view of
winning the races. Have you any cognisance of anything of the
liind ? — Absolutely none.

I suppose Mr. Hammond was known to 3'ou, and Waugh the
irainer is pretty well known ? — Yes.

Now I come to Brighton, on the 19th April, in the Trial Plate
at Epsom. To whom did that horse belong ? — To me and to
Mr. Baird — half each.

Did you back that horse ? — I did, for 180Z., and lost.

Then the next is the 28th April, Brighton in the Cadogan
Plate at Newmarket. It is said that this horse was run unfairly,
and not with a \dew of winning the race, but somehow or other
it did win ? — Yes, in a canter.

You backed it for ISOl. on the 19th April, and it lost ? — Yes.

Did you back it again on the 28tli ? — Yes, for 300/. even
money.

Now, Abelard, on the 5th July, in the Maiden Plate at New-
market. Whose was that ? — Half mine and half Mr. Baird's —
the same partnership. I had no bet on the race. It lost.

Then the next is Rose Wmdow ; whose was that ? — Sir
George Arthur's.

As far as you are concerned, have you any interest in it ? — I
have no earthly interest in it. I tried the horse before it went to
this race, at Leicester ; it was tried with some of my horses. He
was a very moderate horse, and I did not back him.^

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Was he under Sir George Arthur's directions or yours ?—
Under Sir George Arthur's directions.

Then, 29th July, Gordon, the Chichester Stakes at Goodwood.
Whose horse was that ? — Mine.

Did you back that horse ? — No, I did not. I thought he had
no chance. Sherrard told me he had been very much shaken by
the hard ground, and advised me not to back it.

Then, August 2nd, Shimmer, the Marine Stakes at Brighton.
Whose horse is that ? — General Owen Williams's.

Had you anything to do with that horse ? — No. I did not
know it had run.

Then the next is Cassimere, on September 6th and September
9th. One race is the Prince of Wales' Nursery, at Doncaster,
and the other the Sandown Nursery Plate, at Sandown Park.
Whose horse w^as that ? — Sherrard's.

Had you anything to do with it ? — No, nothing.

Did you back the horse for the Prince of Wales' Nursery at
Doncaster ? — I did not.

Had you any bet at Sandown ? — That is on September 9th.
I was not in England at the time.

Where were you ? — I was travelling in Scotland. I was on
the railway at that time in Scotland — on that day.

Had you anything to do with the horse at all ? — Nothing on
earth. I did not know it was going to run.

Then Acme ? — That is the same day. I was away. My
answer is the same.

Then we get back to Doncaster, on September 13th — Torch-
light, whose horse is that ? — Lord Lurgan's.

Had you anything whatever to do with its running ? — Nothing.

Then September 15th, Helmsley, in the Rous Plate, at Don-
caster— to whom did that belong ? — I do not know who it
belonged to then, and I did not even know it ran.

Then the 27th September, the same horse, Helmsley, ran at
Sandown Park. Had you anything to do with that ? — No.

Then, September 28th, Plantagenet, whose horse is that ? —
Mine.

That ran in the Welter Handicap at Newmarket — who rode
that horse ? — Weldon. I had no bet on the race, because there
was another horse, Torchlight, running in the same race, which
I knew was certain to beat it, and in the same stable.

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Did you back that liorse ? — No, I had no bet.

Then, October 11th, Portnellan, m the Ancaster Welter
Handicap, at Newmarket. Was he yours at that time ? — No, I
had sold him some months before. He was claimed by auction
in a selling race. He was second in a selling race, and a friend
of mine came and asked if I minded his claiming it in a friendly
way for Martin, the trainer ; and I said, ' With pleasure.' I
was only too glad to get rid of it.

That was the 13th June ? — Yes, at Windsor.

On the 11th October had you anything to do with the horse?
— Nothing on earth.

It was not in Sherrard's stable ? — No.

Now we come back to Rose Window, Sir George Arthur's
horse, that ran on the 26th October, in the New Nursery Plate
Handicap, at Newmarket. Had you anything to do with that ?
— Nothing.

Then on che 4th and 12th November, Success ran at Lewes
and at Alexandra Park. Success belonged to General Owen
Williams ? — Yes.

Was it trained in Sherrard's stable ? — No.

Had you anythmg whatever to do with Success being
entered, or running, or anything ? — No, nothing whatever. I
was not there.

I suppose the same answer applies to Rose Window on
the 14th November ? — Yes.

Now, is there one word of truth in the suggestion that you
were cognisant of, and party to, the running of those horses
unfairly, and not upon their true merits, and not with a view
of winning the races ? Is there one word of truth with respect
to them or any one of them ? — Not one word of truth.

Now I will come back to paragraph 7. The charge there is
that during the year 1885 you were part owner with Wood and
Samuel Lewis, whose interest you had not registered with the
proper racing authorities, in the following horses ; and then there
comes the list. Now, had Wood any interest wiiatever in any
one of those horses ? — Not any interest whatever. He never
had.

In July 1885, did you purchase three horses in Mr. Chaplin's
sale — the Blankney sale ? — Yes — Gordon, Quilt, and Sad.

Had Mr. Lewis a share in these horses ? — Yes, half.

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Did you purchase them for 2,052Z. IO5., the half of which
would be 1,026/. 5s. ? — Yes, and in October 1884 purchased from
Mr. Lewis his moiety for 1,100/. The sum was paid to Mr.
Lewis through Messrs. Weatherby.

In 1884, when there was the partnership interest in those
horses, did you as a fact register it at Messrs. Weatherby's ? —
Yes.

And there it is on the register ? — Yes.

In the list there is a mare called Gay ? That is said to
have been Charles Wood's, Samuel Lewis's, and yours. Had
Wood or Lewis any interest in it at all ? — None whatever.

Now I mil go to paragraph 8. Did any one of the horses
mentioned in paragraph 8 ever belong to Wood or Lewis, in
whole or in part ? — Never.

You never had any share with Wood and Lewis in them ? —
Never; and this answer applies to the horses mentioned in para-
graph 9.

Then go to paragraph 10. It is alleged that * The Plaintiff
during the year 1886 was part owner with one George Baird,.
who races under the name of Mr. Abington, in several race-
horses in which their joint interest had not been registered with,
the proper racing authorities.' What horses had you with Mr.
Baird in the year 1886 ? — Brighton and Whitefriar ; these were
the only two, and they are registered as our joint property. In
addition to those, in 1887 we had Abelard and Shy ; there were'
no more, and they were all registered.

Then, in paragraph 12, it is alleged that you were cognisant of,
and party to, the seven horses being entered to run in races in
the name of the trainer, Sherrard, with the knowledge that
Sherrard was not the owner of the horses, and that Charles
Wood was owner or part owner of them. Did you ever know
anything of the kind ? — I never knew anything of the kind.

As far as you knew or know, had Wood any interest in those
horses ? — I never knew he had any interest in those horses, and
do not believe he had.

As to Oxford Swell, did you, together with Lord Lurgan,
purchase that horse from Sherrard for 300/. ? — Yes, in October
1885.

Then the same allegation is made with respect to the years
1886 and 1887, and in regard to the different horses mentioned,

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seven in 1886 and five in 1887 are said to have belonged really
to Wood, but run by Sherrard. Had you any knowledge of any
ownership of Wood in those twelve horses ? — No, none.

Then comes paragraph 15 : 'In the years 1885, 1886, and
1887 the Plaintiff was interested as owner, or part owner, in all
the horses running in the name of Lord Lurgan during those
years, and failed to register his interest in the said horses with
the proper authorities.' With the exception of Oxford Swell,
had you in those years any interest in Lord Lurgan's horses ? —
None at all.

Was Oxford Swell registered in partnership ? — Yes.

Then paragraph 16 charges you with being cognisant of, and
party to, the running of horses in the name of Mr. E. B.
Barnard, of which Wood w^as either owner or part owner.
Have you any cognisance of any such fact, and do you believe
it ? — I have no cognisance, and I do not believe it.

Then paragraph 17 says that Plaintiff was interested as
owner or part owner in all the horses running in the name
of Mr. Benzon, and failed to register his interest in the horses.
Were you part owner, or had you any interest by way of owner-
ship in those horses ? — None whatever.

Now I will go to paragraph 24. You were at Epsom in May
1887 ?— Yes.

Had you a horse at that time called Never ? — Y^es. I sent it
to Epsom for the purpose of running in the Norbury Selling
Plate, and backed it for about 600Z., I think.

Did it come to Epsom from Sherrard's, at Newmarket, in the
charge of young Sherrard ? — Yes.

Did you see the horse ? — I saw him coming down with the
jockey on him — not before.

Had you any knowledge whatever of that horse being lame
before it went to the post ? — Not the slightest. It did not trot
lame when it passed in front of the stand.

Young Sherrard would know where to find you, I suppose ? —
Yes.

Had you any communication either from Newmarket or from
the young man in charge that the horse was lame in any way ? —
None at all.

You do not know what took place at the post, but did you
see the horse coming back ? — Yes, and I ran down to it in the

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course. I then saw it was lame. I was most anxious to find
whether I lost my money.

Had it, in the sense of going to the post, so that you lost
your money, come into the hands of the starter ? — No.

You inquired as to that ? — Yes ; I inquired directly I saw
Wood ; it had not been under the starter's orders. The late
Mr. Manning, the veterinary surgeon, examined it, and he found
a small splint about the size of a pea — quite a small thing, and
he said no doubt the horse had struck himself and was sore on
it. It was sent back to Newmarket and attended to by Mr.
Bell ; the splint was removed, and the horse got round.

Had you any interest whatever in doing what is alleged here —
in allowing the horse to be taken to the starting post, ' as if to
take part in the said race ' ? — Most certainly not.

Have you any explanation to give of the meaning of this
charge ? — I should think the meaning was that I sent one for
the purpose of committing a fraud — that I sent a horse to the
post when he was lame and backed him for about 10,000^.,
taking care he did not get under the starter's hands, and backed
another horse in the race.

Were you backing another horse in the race ? — I had 40Z. on
Propriety also. Lord Lurgan came to me and said, ' I think the
only dangerous one is Propriety,' and I said I would have iOL
on him. I had, and got 5 to 2, I think, about the others.

From time to time when you had bets Wood had a portion of
those bets. Of course you were aware of that rule we have referred
to in the ' Eacing Calendar ' of December 27th, 1883, which
states : ' It having been represented to the Stewards of the
Jockey Club that many jockeys are in the habit of betting
largely on horse-racing, the Stewards hereby give notice that
such practice will not be tolerated in future.' Of course the
Arbitrators will be aware of it ; but. Sir George, is there any
other rule but that that you know of with respect to betting ? —
There has been another rule since.

Eightly or wrongly, when Wood was riding for you and you
had backed the horse which he was riding. Wood had some por-
tion of the betting ? — Yes, I have put him on small sums.

Have you ever made bets for Wood or given him any portion
in bets which would cause him to have an interest that the
horse he was riding should lose ? — Never in my life.

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There is your betting book to speak for itself ? — Yes.

Would those bets give him more interest in winning ? — Yes^
I think they would make him more anxious to win.

Did you, when you made these bets for Wood, make that
record in your book ? — Yes.

By your making a bet he would not have to go to the betting
man himself ? — Exactly, that is the reason I made it.

As far as the entry is concerned, did you make any secret at
all that the betting was taking place ? — Not at all ; quite the
contrary.

Was Wood paid direct by you or by Brewer ? — By Brewer.

Have you mentioned the circumstance* from time to time ? —
Yes, I have. I have often told the Stewards of the Jockey Club —
I beheve Lord March was one of them at the time — that I did
bet for Wood in small sums.

Have you told others ? — Yes, I never made the least secret
of it ; I thought I was complying with the spirit of the rule.

Have you got yourself any statement, so that you can give
it, of the amount in any year that you have made of bets for
Wood ? — Yes, I have had it all made out.

I want it from you if you can give it ? — I have been through
it ; it is my statement in fact.

Your bets for Wood go as low as 5/., and the highest, I
thmk, as 50/. ?— Yes.

Did you ever make a bet for him which would give him an
interest in not winning on the horse he was riding ? — No,,
never.

Does your betting book show all bets or most of your bets for
Wood ? — Every bet I have made for him.

Those betting books have been disclosed to the Defendant's,
advisers ? — Yes.

Sir Charles Kussell : Certain entries.

Sir Henry James : Sir Charles Russell is under the impres-
sion that we selected the entries. Everything that was asked
for in your betting books was shown ? — Yes.

That was not your selection ? — Not the least.

But selected by the Defendant's advisers. Every entry which
was asked for by the Defendant's ad\'isers, have copies been
taken of them ? — Yes, hundreds of races.

Here is one paragraph I have almost omitted, but which I am

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reminded of. It is paragraph 5 : ' The Plaintiff employed the
said Charles Wood as his jockey upon the occasions when the said
€harles Wood rode for him, because he thought that the said
Charles Wood was a jockey who could square other jockeys in
the races in which he rode.' You told us when you began to
employ Charles Wood he was a young man then ? — Yes.

Had you any knowledge of his ever squaring other jockeys ? —
No, never.

Did you ever request him to do so, know of his doing so, or
wish him to do so ? — Never.

We now come to the transaction with respect to the purchase
of Portnellan by Charles Wood. To what extent was authority
given to him ? — If he found a horse of mine amiss he would
take it on himself not to run the horse if I was not present, or if
a horse was in two races, and he thought he might win one race
and not win the other, that he was to run him in the one he
thought he would win, if he was engaged the same day, and he
had power to buy in any horse as long as he saw a horse that
he thought would do for me, if it was not a large sum ; and he
has bought many horses for me.

The charge against you is made that ' During the years 1885,
1886, and 1887, whilst the Plaintiff was employing the said
Charles Wood as his jockey to ride races, the said Charles Wood
had made money advances to and money payments for and on
behalf of the said Plaintiff, and upon terms which were incon-
sistent with the said Plaintiff's independence of action in con-
trolling the said Charles Wood as his jockey.' With one exception,
did Wood ever lend you any money, or ever make any advance
for you ?— Never.

Did Wood on one occasion purchase ahorse called Portnellan,
or direct it to be purchased ? — Yes, at Derby, in November 1886.
I was not present.

When did you first learn that he had bought the horse ? —
The next day, at Northampton.

What was your pecuniary position at that time as regards
your balance at your bankers' ; was it m a good condition or not ?
— I had no balance at my bankers'. I could not write a cheque
even. I did not write a cheque for six months, I suppose.

You have an income dependent on vour agricultural estate ?
—Yes.

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Did you tell Wood your position ? — Yes, I told him I had no
money.

What did Wood say or do ? — Wood offered to lend it to me»
and he sent me a cheque two or three days afterwards. Mean-
while, I had paid for the horse at Weatherby's. I had only 300L
at Weatherby's at the time. Weatherby's, of course, had paid
for the horse.

That same sum, 31 5Z., for which Portnellan had been pur-
chased, which you had to pay to Weatherby's, was that sum
sent in a cheque from Wood to you ? — Sent by a cheque from
Wood to me.

Is that the only transaction that ever took place of money
advanced or payment between you and Wood ? — Yes.

Did you give your commissioner, Mr. Frederick Brewer, direc-
tions to repay it ?— Yes.

Under what conditions was he to pay it as to your account ?
^No particular conditions. I told him that I w^anted to send
Wood 300Z. and Sherrard 300Z., both of them.

I do not see any particulars about it, but I may as well ask
about it. You became acquainted, I believe, w^ith the rule that
the Stewards of the Jockey Club gave notice in December 1883,
that for the future licences would only be granted to jockeys on
condition that they were not owners, or part owners, of any
race-horses. Leave Avould be given to one or two jockeys to
own one or more horses. That appears in the Calendar of
December 27th, 1883. Of course you knew that Wood, before
that rule came into existence, owmed certain horses ? — Y^es.

I think some of them were Arbaces, Columbine, Alucho, Vol-
au-Vent, Moncrieffe, and Petit Due. Did Wood first apply to
you to become the lessee of those horses, to lease them ? — Y^es,
he had written to Messrs. Weatherby on the subject.

Sir Henry James : Mr. Weatherby, do you produce any
letter of December 29th, from Mr. Wood to you ? (The same
was produced.) This is the letter produced by Mr. Edward
Weatherby from Charles Wood to Messrs. Weatherby : — ' De-
cember 29th, 1883. Gentlemen, — In reference to the new rule
passed by the Stewards of the Jockey Club to prohibit jockeys
from keeping racehorses, I beg to say that it is not my intention
in any way to infringe that rule, and if you will kindly convey
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obliged to you. As you know, I had a few horses in training, but
I had no other reason for buying those horses except one, which
was to give Mr. Sherrard, with whom I have long been con-
nected, some little support in his business, because I know from
long experience that he is worthy of it. It is therefore, in the
first place, my intention to offer the horses I have to Sir
George Chetwynd, he being my first master ; should Sir
George Chetwynd not care to take them, they shall be sold
by auction in the usual way. I am desirous that the Stewards
should not think that I keep horses in training for the pur-
pose of gambling. — I am, gentlemen, yours obediently, Charles
Wood.' Then the next letter is, I think, December 30th,
1883, from Wood to Sir George Chetwynd: — ' Sir, — I see in the
Calendar that jockeys are not allowed to keep racehorses, and
it is not my wish to break the rules. I have written to Mr.
Weatherby to that effect. I have enclosed a copy of the letter
to you, but if they will allow me, I should like to lease them
to you for their racing career on any terms you like. I would
sooner give them to you for their racing career than let them
be sold, as I know there are two or three useful ones. I
should like to do as you wish, as I know you would advise
me to do what is right. You will see by Euff's Guide I have
put the yearlings in a lot of engagements. Arbaces and Colum-
bine (late Trot) I have not entered them at present. Half
Wolseley belongs to me, but Mr. Sherrard is going to buy my
half off me. The only reason I had of keeping racehorses was
to help Mr. Sherrard in his business, as I never bet heavily
myself. Wishing you. Sir George, the comphments of the
season, your obedient servant, Charles Wood.' Then Mr. Sydney
has got from Mr. Wood a letter from Sir George Chetwynd of
January 14th.

Do you recollect whether, after Wood wrote again, you went
to Lord Cadogan or any one and asked about it ? — There is no
doubt I did, or Wood did. We made a proposition about my
leasing the horses from Wood.

I think my client and Sir Charles are right about the date of
that. Do you recollect whether you or Wood went to Lord
Cadogan ?— No, I did not go to him. I was at Grendon all the
time, in the country. I might have written to him.

This letter begins, * Lord Cadogan says of course you will ba

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granted a licence provided you do not own or share any race-
horses.' — No doubt Lord Cadogan wrote to me.

Had you, as far as you recollect, consulted Lord Cadogan on
the subject by letter ? — Yes, I am sure I did.

' And as it would not look well your waiting for your licence
you had better do as you say, and lease the horses to me on the
usual terms, I suppose, I to pay for everything as long as I have
them and give you half the stakes they win. If I have to put
them in selling races an understanding will be come to with you
beforehand. I am referring to the horses at Sherrard's, of
course. I can see that all jockeys will have to be very particular
in their behaviour this year, as the Stewards will be very strict,
and it is chiefly thanks to the men who have sprung up, who get
a living by touting what jockeys think about a race that is going
to take place, and then go off and tell all their friends. They keep
one or two horses to be called owners, and are the greatest pests the
turf has, as they are thieves themselves, and if everything does
not come off as they wish they accuse people at once of dishonesty.
I hope our young ones are going on well.' Are those the young
ones in Sherrard's stable ? — Yes.

' Believe me, yours truly, George Chetwynd.' Now, January
15th, there is a letter from Wood to you, Sir George Chetwynd.
* In reply to your letter I beg to say I am quite satisfied with
the arrangement in reference to my horses. You suggest therein
you may now consider them your j)roperty. I most sincerely
hope you may be fortunate with them, for I am sure they are a
useful lot, viz., b.f. Columbine, late Trot, 3 years old ; b.c.
Arbaces, 3 years old ; b.f. Alucha, 2 years, ch. f. Vol-au-Vent, 2
years ; b.c. Moncrieffe, 2 years ; ch.H?. Petit Due, 2 years ; and I
am sure. Sir George, they are all I own. I remain your obedient
servant.' Then the next letter I have is a letter from Wood of
February 7th to you : ' Sir George,— I have enclosed the letter
which I received from Messrs. Weatherby this morning. I am
sorry they will not allow me to lease the horses to you. Will
you please, Sir George, tell me w^hat I had better do ? Had I
better advertise them for sale in the Calendar, and let Mr.
Tattersall sell them ? They are a nice lot. I should have liked
for you to have had them.' Wood says in this letter : * I have
enclosed the letter which I received from Messrs. Weatherby.
I am sorry they will not allow me to lease the horses to you.'

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You also received a letter of February 7tli from The Nunnery,
from Slierrard, on this subject : ' Sir George, I beg to say
Wood, in consequence of having received a letter from Messrs.
Weatherby this morning in reference to his jockey's licence to
ride being refused while he remains part owner of any race-
horses in training has caused him much anxiety. He of course
thought, having leased the horses to you, that it would be
sufficient and all that the Stewards would require, but it appears
from the letter he received this morning that the Stewards can-
not grant him a licence under these circumstances ; but what is
to be done in the matter I cannot say. Of course they are no
doubt a very useful lot of horses, and Wood, like myself, would be
very sorry to lose them, or in other words be obliged to sell
them out of the stable. Wood says that he would much rather
make you a present of the whole lot sooner than allow them to
go out of the stable, but of course I told Wood this morning
that he had by far better write and enclose Mr. Weatherby's
letter to you for your advice in the matter, and act just as you
advise him to act. It appears the Stewards of the Jockey Club
will not allow the least infringement of their new rule, therefore
it becomes a question what is really to be done in the matter,
and I am sure that no one better than yourself, Sir George, can
advise and help him out of this difficulty, and therefore my
•advice to Wood is to place himself entirely in your hands, and do
as you wish him in every particular.' Then there is a telegram
from Sir George Chetwynd directed to Wood, February 8th, 1884.
* You and Sherrard value the horses and send me result ; if I can-
not manage to buy them, see no alternative but Tattersall's.'
Then there is a letter from Sir George Chetwynd to Wood.
' Grendon Hall, Friday. — I return you Messrs. Weatherby's letter.
I think the Stewards are very hard on you in not allowing the
horses to be leased, as it means that a jockey may not keep a brood
mare and lease her produce even, and I shall tell them so when
I see them. You could keep the horses by being made part
trainer with Sherrard, but that probably won't suit you, and
the best plan will be, if I can manage it, to buy them outright
from you, though it is very difficult to determine the value of
two-year-olds at this time of year. I shall consider your letter to-
morrow and will reply to it at once. Of course, all the jockeys who
are not actually trainers are in the same boat as yourself, so you

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mustn't take it that the rule is only made for you ; and perhaps
they couldn't have made an exception in your case, even if they
wished to at my representation. When I see the Stewards I
shall explain the whole matter to them and the reason you
bought the horses.'

SECOND DAY

Now we will follow on from where we stopped last night, and
I think we had reached February 1884, which was a telegram :

* You and Sherrard value the horses, and send me the result.
If I cannot manage to buy them, see no alternative but Tatter-
sail's.' — Yes.

Then there was a letter from you to Wood from Grendon Hall :

* I return you Messrs. AVeatherby's letter. I think the Stewards
are very hard on you in not allowing the horses to be leased, as
it means that a jockey may not keep a brood mare and lease her
produce even, and I shall tell them so when I see them. You
could keep the horses by being made part trainer with Sherrard,
but that probably won't suit you, and the best plan will be, if I
can manage it, to buy them outright from you, though it is very
difficult to determine the value of two-year-olds at this time of
year. I shall consider your letter to-morrow, and will reply to it
at once ; of course, all the jockeys who are not actually trainers
are in the same boat as yourself, so you mustn't take it that the
rule is only meant for you, and perhaps they couldn't have made
an exception in your case even if they wished to at my represen-
tation.' Then we come to a letter of February 8th, 1884 :

* Suffolk House, Newmarket. — Sir George, — I beg to say that I
have received your message in reference to the horses belonging
to me. Mr. Sherrard and I valued them at a price we think very
far below their value, but under the circumstances it is perhaps
best that you should buy them outright. So far as the money is
concerned, why, pay for them when they win it for you. If they
don't turn out well I should, of course, take nothing at all for
them. Will you please send me a letter that I may send to the
Stewards of the Jockey Club to say that you have bought them of-
me. I remain. Sir George, your obedient servant, Charles
Wood.' Then comes a memorandum at the end of the letter :

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* Feb. 7, 1884. Arbaces, 500Z. ; Columbine, 500Z. ; Moncrieffe,
5001. ; Alucha, 4.001. ; Vol-au-Vent, 300Z. ; Petit Due, 100/.'
These were two-year-olds, were they not ? — Except Arbaces and
Columbine.

Was that a high price or a low price for them ? — A high
price, decidedly.

Then there is a letter from Sherrard to you from The
Nunnery : ' Sir George, — I beg to say that Wood showed me the
telegram he received from you to-day in reference to his horses,
and so he asked me to value them, which I did, at a price I
thought fair between you and him, but which I think, and Wood
thinks also, far below their value. Still, under the circum-
stances, it is, I am sure, the very best thing that could be done,
and as Wood, of course, like myself, would a thousand times
rather that you should .have them than anyone else, or that they
should be sold. Arbaces at 5001. cannot be considered dear ;
Columbine, late Trot, at 5001. also cannot be anything like her
real value, and I think she is worth 1,000Z. ; Moncrieffe at 5001.
is cheap, and may make a racehorse of high class, as all out of
his dam, Maid of Perth, Glen Albyn's dam; and Alucha is a nice
filly, and cheap at 4:001., as is also Vol-au-Vent at 300Z., and
Petit Due is cheap at lOOZ., and you can put him into a selling
race at any time, for he is now very nearly fit to run. Vol-au-
Vent will be ready to meet her engagements at Liverpool Spring
if you want her. Arbaces and Columbine you can have almost
when you wish to run them, but the latter, I think, it would be
best not to be in too great a hurry with her; she is a very fine filly
indeed. Moncrieffe and Alucha will be more backward, particu-
larly the former. We have requested Mr. Manning to forward
to you by this night's post the plans of the new stables we are
about to build, for your inspection and approval.' Did you reply
to that letter of Sherrard's, because we have no answer to it ? — •
I do not know, I am sure.

I have this letter that you wrote to Wood : * Dear Sir, — I
am quite sensible of your wish that I should lose nothing by the
horses, and if I take them I propose accepting the terms you
suggest in your letter in a friendly way — viz., that if they turn
out badly we shall not stick to the price agreed on now, 2,300Z.,
but arrange between us and Sherrard what will be fair for both
parties. This arrangement in a friendly way has nothing to do

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with anyone else, and no one need know it. You sell me the
horses for 2,300Z. with their engagements, and they become my
property now. It is nothing to anybody else if you come to me
and say, **I am sorry so-and-so has not turned out well, I will
give you so much back." I enclose a letter for you to forward to
Messrs. Weatherby ; that will end the matter.' After that did
you take possession of these horses ? — Yes.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Will you be good enough to read in
connection with that the letter he encloses for Wood to send to
the Stewards ?

Mr. Weathekby : I have here (producing) the letter from
Wood.

Sir Henry James : It is dated the 14th January, 1884.
* Gentlemen — I have disposed of all my horses to Sir George
Chetwynd. Mr. Sherrard has bought my half, so will you please
send me a licence to ride.'

From that date did these horses come into your hands ? — Yes ;
I paid the trainer's bill for them and accepted the responsibility
for their entrances and forfeits.

How did these horses turn out ? — Very badly, or four of them,
at all events, turned out very badly.

In accordance with what was stated in this letter from Wood,
what sum did you afterwards pay Wood for them ? — 1,200?.

Has Wood had any share or any property in these horses
from the day after which those letters were written ? — No, never.

And you are prepared to give in full details of what the
horses did, and what became of them, if necessary? — Yes.

Of course, during this time you were communicating with
Sherrard in writing ? — Yes.

And those letters would be in Sherrard's possession ? — Yes.

It came to your knowledge that they were in existence, and
your solicitor has seen them ? — Yes.

Have you the slightest objection to your correspondence with
Sherrard being seen by anybody ? — No, not the slightest.

They are at the disposal of Sir Charles Russell ? — Yes, cer-
tainly.

Sir Henry James : With the exception of anything that may
arise in reference to these horses, I have no further questions to
put to the witness.

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Cross-examined by Sir Charles Russell.

You first became the owner of horses, I think you said, in
1869 ?— Yes.

Have you filled the office of Steward of the Jockey Club ? —
Yes, about 1878, I think.

One who has served the office of Steward is eligible for re-
election at a later period ? — ^Yes.

It is hardly re-election, I think, but co-optation ? — Yes.
Have you served more than once ?— No.
Did you ever hear of a person known as the American
plunger ? — Yes.

What was his name ? — Walton.
Did you sell him a horse ? — Yes, Sutler.
Was it Wood who introduced you to Walton ? — No, no one
introduced me to him. I met him upon a racecourse and got into
ordinary conversation. On racecourses people come up to one
and talk about racing and betting. I am certain I was never
introduced to Walton.

Did he come up to you and ask you to sell Sutler ? — No.
How did that come about ? — I heard that he was going to
back him for a lot of money.

Who told you ? — I do not know.
Wood?— No.

Are you quite sure ? — Quite sure.
Did Wood sell him ? — No, Wood did not sell him.
Or arrange the price ? — No.
Or negotiate it ? — No.

Did you sell him upon the terms that he was to be allowed to
remain in the stable ?— Till after that race only.

In consequence of that were you requested to leave the
stable ?— No.

How did you come to leave the stable ? — The Duchess of
Montrose wrote to me and said that she wanted to keep the
stable to their own horses entirely.

Was that immediately after the sale of Sutler ? — No, not
immediately.

Very soon after ? — It would be towards the end of the year.
Did it come to your knowledge that the American plunger^
Walton, was a very heavy better ? — Yes, it had come to my
knowledge.

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Did he pay large sums to jockeys for information ? — I heard
all sorts of rumours about him.

Did you hear that he paid large sums to Wood for informa-
tion?— No, I did not hear that he paid any sum of money
specially to Wood, but I heard something in connection with a
race that Wood rode, and I will tell you what it was, and that
is the only time I have heard anything about Walton and
Wood. Wood rode a mare belonging to Mr. Graham, the
breeder, m a race at Newmarket, and it won, and I heard rumours,
and indeed Wood admitted to me, that he had told Walton that
he thought she was sure to win, and Walton had backed her and
had made him a present. It was unnamed, I think— a mare by
Sterling.

Do you say, excepting that occasion, you never heard it
suggested, truly or untruly, that Wood had received large sums
of money from Walton ? — I heard rumours that W^alton gave all
the jockeys money, but not Wood more than any other jockey,
except in this one instance I have mentioned.

Was Wood riding in that race ? — He rode the winner.

Were you present in the Birdcage at Newmarket upon the
occasion of a scene between Sir John Astley and the American
plunger ? — No doubt I may have been there, but I did not see the
scene ; Sir John Astley told me about it.

Was that in reference to a race in which a horse called Medi-
cus ran ? — Yes, I think so.

Who rode Medicus ? — He ran so many times that it is difficult
to say, but I think Wood, though I am not positive.

Do you know that Sir John Astley complained that he was
forestalled by Walton, amongst others, so that ^le could not back
his own horse ? — Yes, I do.

Did you ask Wood whether he got any money from Walton
upon that occasion ? — I do not remember at all whether I asked
him anything about the race.

Do you consider it a proper thing for a jockey to receive
money for information about his mounts ? — It depends, and it is
really a difficult question to answer. I should not consider that
a man ought to give a jockey a present for telling him about
things. I do not think it was right, but I do not think it is a
Tery heinous offence. I should not do it myself.

In 1884, as we have heard, after a short time at The Nunnery

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stables, your horses and those in Sherrard's stables went to
Chetwynd House ? — Yes.

Let me see who the owners were — General Owen Williams ?
—No. Mr. W. E. Marshall, I think, Mr. Montgomery, a French
gentleman, and myself ; I do not remember anybody else. There
was, of course. Sir George Arthur, because he had a share in
horses with me — in 1885 and 1886 and 1887.

General Owen Williams, Mr. Hungerford, Mr. Benzon ? — •
Yes, Mr. Benzon during one of those years.

During 1887 ?— Yes, and 1886 too, I think.

Who else ?— Lord Lurgan, Mr. Montgomery, and Mr. Bar-
nard in the latter part of one year — 1887.

And Mr. Baird ? — Yes, he was part owner with me.

And Mr. Brewer, the bookmaker ? — Yes, I think so.

Now, as to these partnerships. Amongst your partners you
have told us was Mr. Abington ; did you know much of him ? —
Yes ; on racecourses I have met him.

Do you know that he has partnerships in as many as from
twenty-six to thirty horses ? — No.

Did you ever inquire from him to ascertain ? — No ; I never
inquired anything about his horses, or about him.

How many horses were you interested in with Mr. Baird from
1884 to the present time ? — First of all, Brighton and Whitefriar,
and then, next year, Whitefriar, Sly, and Abelard, and since
then a mare called Spite, and Cedar. I had one with Lord
Lurgan, two with Mr. Peck — Giesshubler and Goldfield — and Gay
and Bay Comus. The late Charles Brewer was part owner of
Bobert the Devil, and was my commissioner for many years.

Li the year 1887 there was a question about Wood's riding of
Success ? — Yes.

You have told us who the owners of horses in the stable
were then ; has General Owen WiUiams any horses in the stable
now ? — Yes.

What horses has he there ?— I do not know how many
horses.

Mr. Hungerford ? — No.

Mr. Benzon ?— No.

Has Mr. Benzon any horses anywhere ? — I do not think any.

His career began and ended in 1887, did it ?— No, hardly —
1887 and 1888, 1 think.

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You gave him the benefit of your advice ? — Yes.

Did you sell him horses ? — Yes, Kingwood, Spectrum, and
three yearhngs.

What did the price of those five represent ? — About 4,500Z.

Are any of them in the stable still ? — No they were all
sold.

By auction ? — The three yearlings were sold by auction^ and
they fetched more than he gave me for them.

And the other two ? — Kingwood won a lot of races for him,
and it was sold to go somewhere, but it died the other day on
board ship.

You said yesterday, adopting the very strong language put ta
you both as to Sherrard and Wood, that no suspicion of Wood
ever crossed your mind ; is that so ? — You mean no suspicion of
Wood's dishonesty ?

Yes, and it would have reference to unfair riding, or to
equivocal riding^do you adhere to your statement ? — Yes, I do
not know of anything against Wood.

Do you say that no suspicion of W^ood's propriety of conduct
as jockey ever crossed your mind ? — No, no suspicion.

Can you tell me whether this is correct, that his professional
income as a jockey, calculating the ordinary rates for winning
and losing mounts, would be roughly speaking between 2,0001,
and 3,000/. ? — I should think a great deal more than that.

I think you will find not. — You mean actual winning mounts
and losing mounts, not counting winnings and presents ?

Yes, I said so. Has he the reputation of being a man who
has acquired a large amount of property ?— Yes, I should think
he has.

The Chetwynd House stables ?— Yes.

What did those cost ?— I understood that the whole thing
cost 10,000/., but I do not know, and cannot give any information
upon it.

He is the owner, also, of some hotel or hotels in Newmarket ?
— I do not know.

He bought Sir John Astley's house, did he not ?— That is the
same thing as the stables.

Has he got Suffolk House ? — Yes.

And he is the proprietor of a stud farm near Newmarket ? —
Yes.

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I think I am right in saying that you attended the trial of
Wood V. Cox throughout ? — Yes.

Wood is also the part owner in a thriving business in the
coopering line, is he not ? — I think so.

The presents must have been very large ? — Yes, very large.

Has he told you on any occasion of the presents he has re-
ceived ? — Yes, I have heard of presents, he has told me himself.

Had reports come to your ears at any time of the existence of
a jockey ring ? — Yes, I should say four or five years ago.

I should like to know what that means. Does it mean
jockeys putting their heads together in a given race as to which
horse they would go for ? — I should think so. I do not know, and
I should like to know what it means also. I do not know for
certain, but that is my idea of what it does mean.

That is to say, four or five jockeys in a race practically agree-
ing that one horse in that race should win ? — Yes, I suppose so.

Their interest and object would be, if they were about to do
;a corrupt thing of that kind, to back the horse that was to win ?
— Yes, I should suppose so.

Do you think that such a ring existed ? — I am positive it did
not.

Have you always been of that opinion ? — When I first heard
of it, naturally one began to think whether it was possible or not.

Did you soon discard the idea or entertain it for long ? — I did
discard it. I believed it was not possible.

And you thought you were not called upon to take any steps
in the matter, or to follow it up ? — I was going to follow it up
and examine into the matter.

This is the ' Calendar ' for 1884. At the April meeting of that
year you put this question : ' To ask the Stewards whether they
are aware that it is openly stated that a conspiracy exists between
certain jockeys and so-called professional backers of horses to
arrange the results of races for their own benefit, and if they have
heard of such statement, and believe it possible such a plot exists,
what steps they propose to take in dealing with the matter.'

Who were the jockeys that were suspected ? — No particular
ones — a great many. No doubt Archer and Wood were amongst
them, because I spoke to Archer and Wood, and said I should
-do this, believing it was utterly impossible, and believing there
was not one word of truth in it.

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Were they supposed to be in the same ring or in different
rings ? — I do not know, I am sure. I do not know who invented
the story.

Am I to take it that this question of yours was put in the
interests of Archer and Wood ? — I thought it a shame that a
story hke that should go about, and I thought it would be a,
good thing to call the attention of the Stewards of the Jockey
Club to the fact that such a report was going about, in order that,
if they liked to go into it, they might show how unfounded it
was.

I want to call attention to a letter, which has already been
read in another connection, at the beginning of 1884, and it is
agreed that it is dated the 14th January. In that letter you say,
writing to Wood, ' Of course I can see that all jockeys will have
to be very particular in their behaviour tliis year, as the Stewards
will be very strict.' Do you recollect that ? — Yes, perfectly.

Were there or not in your mind at that time e^ils, or supposed
evils, existing in the conduct of jockeys? — No, not evils, but- I
particularly put in that letter, I think, that professional backers
were the pest of the turf.

I will read the next sentence. Am I to take it that, so far as
the jockeys w^ere concerned, you did not think there had been,
putting it briefly and straightforwardly, any malpractices ? — No,
I did not believe in any evil, but I did believe that these people
interfered with the jockeys in their profession. For instance,
when a jockey was weighing out there was always a man waiting
for him outside to talk to him, and the owner would have to wait
at a distance till he had done talking to this man ; and I think it
is not a right thing to do.

Now let me read the next sentence in your letter : * It is
chiefly, thanks to the men who have sprung up, who get a living
by touting what jockeys think about a race that is going to take
place and then go off and tell all their friends. They keep one
or two horses to be called owners, and are the greatest pest the
turf has, as they are thieves themselves, and if everything does
not come off as they wish they accuse people at once of dishonesty.
I hope our young ones are going on well.' You must surely have
had in your mind there some definite persons ? — No, I had no
one in particular in my mind. It is a general statement made
to my trainer.

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If jockeys are allowed to bet, or if their owners bet for them,
it would facilitate the kind of malpractice here pointed out, would
it not? — No, quite the contrary; it would prevent any jockey
who wanted to bet having another man to bet for him.

Supposing that you put on — I am not suggesting that you
did — some money for your jockey, and he put on money through
other channels that you did not know anything about, or at all
events were not presumed to know anything about, it might be
worth his while to square other jockeys ? — Yes, in that case ; but
this is insinuation that you are putting to me, because I do not
know anything of the kind.

I am not suggesting for a moment you do. I am calling
attention to what Sir Henry James said about the rule against
betting. The object of the rule was twofold — first of all that it
was a bad thing for jockeys to bet at all, and next, if they did bet
it might give them such an interest in their winning mounts as
would give them an object or motive in trying to square other
jockeys ? — I never understood the notice to mean that jockeys
were not to bet at all, and I rather like jockeys to bet. I thought
the notice meant that jockeys were not to bet high — for instance
as much as 300L or 400Z. on a race.

There is a third object in the rule, that if jockeys are put on
by their owners they may think they have a perfect right to
back other horses if they choose ? — I think exactly the contrary,
and I should not have betted for Wood if I did not hold that
opinion.

Your idea is that it is a good thing for the pubHc for th^
jockeys to bet ? — Yes, I think if every jockey were to put 50^. on
the horse he was going to ride it would be a good thing.

Do you think that since the events that have transpired in
1887 racing has been straighter ? — No, I do not.

Do you think that since 1887 there have been fewer com-
plaints and suggestions of pulling? — I do not know about
suggestions, but there have not certainly been fewer rumours.

Do you think there has been less in-and-out running since
1887 ? — No, certainly not. I think there has been more in-and-
out running this year than I have ever seen in my life.

Inexplicable ? — No, not more so than other in-and-out
running.

Do you think there has been more or less inexplicable in-and-

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out running? — Inexplicable is a funny word, because a man may
have an explanation which is a very bad one.

If it be a very bad explanation I should call that inexpli-
cable ? — I certainly could point out horses this year that have
shown tremendous in-and-out running, which no man could
possibly account for, and that has been the case more than I
have ever seen.

Your impression is that things have not improved ? — Yes.

And your impression is that a strict enforcement of the new
rule against jockeys betting would have a bad effect ? — I do not
Imov/ of any new rule.

I call it a new rule. — It is not a new rule, it is a notice put
in the ' Calendar,' and it has never been made a rule of racing.

As an ex- Steward and member of the Jockey Club you would
not consider it right to be a party to a course of practice con-
trary to the notice ? — I thought it was not contrary to the notice,
and thought it was well within the spirit of the rule. The notice
was about jockeys betting largely.

Y'ou no doubt think it would be objectionable and condem-
nable to be a party to a course of conduct contrary to that rule ? —
That certainly cannot apply to any course of conduct I pursued.

I wish you would be good enough just to attend to the ques-
tion put to you for a moment. Irrespective of yourself, you
v/ould consider it condemnable to countervail that notice ? — For
;.an owner to bet for a jockey ?

My question was a general one — you would not consider it
:;proper to countervail that notice ? — I should not say it would
be a wrong thing for an owner to bet for a jockey in small
su.m.s.

Mr. LowTHER : You, Sir Charles Eussell, will bear in mind
that in the original notice the words * betting largely ' were
used . One notice in other words prohibited large betting, and
ihe other notice prohibited betting of any kind.

Sir Charles Eussell : Your counsel has asked you, and I
am very loth to put more than general questions on the subject,
but as he has introduced it, I must put a question to you. From
what you have yourself volunteered to state in your examination-
in-chief, it was an object to you to win money at racing ? — Yes,
to make my horses pay.

I am not talking of stakes. What did you win in 1884 — by

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bets, I mean ? — I do not know, I am sure. I cannot add up the
whole book.

In 1885 ?— I do not know.

In 1886 ? — I do not know, I am sure.

In 1887 ? — I should think about the same as last year.

1886 and 1887 ?— No, 1887 and 1888.

How much ?— About 5,000Z. or 6,000Z.

And the same in 1888 ? — Yes, about the same in both ye&rs.

And about the same in 1886 ? — I do not know ; 1886 and
1885 rather more.

And 1884 and 1885 somewhere about the same ? — Yes. I
do not know, I think it came out pretty right every year about
the same amount.

Roughly, about 6,000Z. ; in some years more ? — Yes ; I think
in some years it was much less, too.

Tell me if I am not right. Up to about 1883 the results had
not been so satisfactory ? — I do not know, I am sure — before 1883
you mean ?

Yes. — I do not know, I am sure ; I could not tell you at all.

Could you say that it is not ? — I have a recollection a good
while ago of winning a good deal of money. It is a long while
ago. It would be about the years from 1880 to 1882. I did very
well ; my horses were very fortunate.

Have you put on your jockeys in 1888 ? — No.

Backed horses for your jockeys ? — No, not since I saw Mr.
Lowther in 1887.

It was in 1884, you know, you went to Chetwynd House ? —
Yes.

I have asked you generally about your winnings on bets. As
regards your winnings in stakes in 1883youwon3,400Z. ; in 1884,
9,200/. ; in 1885, 6,400Z. ; in 1886, 8,020/. ; and in 1887, 6,100/.
That is about right, is it not ? — That is one side of the book, but
it does not take in all the entries and forfeits, which makes a
tremendous difference.

You did in those years pay off considerable money obligations
you were under ? — Not considerable ; but I paid off, undoubtedly.

I am still upon the subject of Wood. You know Lord
Durham's speech was made on the 13th December, 1887. Who
told you that that speech referred to your stable ? — My brother
told me.

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You bad not read it yourself? — Yes, that day in the train.
Did you read it as referring to your stable ? — No, I did not
read it as referring to nay stable. When I got to tbe end of it I
had my suspicions for a particular reason, and my brother con-
firmed those suspicions.

Were you aware at that time that General Owen Williams had
demanded an inquiry into the riding of his horse, Success ? — I
only knew it the day before I read the speech, down at Newmarket.
Had you heard the running of Success spoken of ? — No.
You were not yourself at Alexandra Park or Derby ? — No.
Were you also aware — these things, I am told, being unknown
to Lord Durham — that the Stewards desired to have an inquiry
into what was described as the in-and-out running of Fullerton
before the speech ? — Yes.

I have something more to say about Fullerton presently;
but, speaking broadly, do you consider that FuUerton's running
in 1887 was in-and-out running ? Whether it can be explained
is another matter we will come to presently. — I should have to
speak very broadly to say that it was in-and-out running.

I merely want to get your explanation for the moment ? — On
account of the difference of the courses. If the differences were
not taken into consideration, and the ground, I should say it was
in-and-out running.

When you speak of the state of the course, what do you
mean? — Whether it is deep, whether it is muddy, and the
length of the course.

I understand from that suggestion that you mean that the
horse did not like heavy going ? — I say so.

Do you mean to convey that, taking into consideration the
different length of the course, and the different state of the
ground, it was not in-and-out running — if you take into account
the state of the ground and the different length of the course ? — ■
I think his running is capable of explanation to people who do
not understand it.

It is in-and-out running on the face of the thing, but it can
be explained ? — I think so. At any rate, I can give you my own
opinion about it.

One other question about Fullerton of a general kind. Would
you say that his running in 1885 made him out a fair two-year-
old ^ — One race did.

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Would you say liis running in 1886 would make liim out a
"bad three-year-old ? — No, not a bad three-year-old ; it would
make him out a fair handicap horse.

Did you try him at all in 1886 to be a good three-year-old ? —
No, not a good three-year-old. I thought he would be just good
enough to get back the money I had given for him.

When the weights came out for the Lincoln Handicap he was
first favourite from the start, was he not ? — No, I do not think
so. I never saw his name mentioned in the betting as first.

What was the largest price you got about him for the Lincoln
Handicap ? — I really do not remember ; 20 to 1, 1 think.

That is not a long price for the Lincoln Handicap ? — Yes,
it is, nowadays.

Did it not come to your Imowledge that Fullerton was backed
for the Lincoln Handicap before the weights came out ? — No, it
did not.

If that were the fact it would be an indication that a portion
of the public who considered themselves astute considered this a
very good horse ? — I have nothing to do with what the public
think. They do very stupid things. They back horses that have
no chance.
, And I suppose the most astute backers do so too ? — Yes, I do.

I was asking you still, please, in relation to Wood. Did you
get an intimation yourself about the inquiry into the in-and-out
running ? — Y^es, from Messrs. Weatherby.

Was it in answer to that that you furnished the Stewards
with the list of your bets ? — Yes, I did. I wrote an answer back
10 Messrs. Weatherby. When Messrs. Weatherby wrote to me I
wrote an answer back to them to be submitted to the Stewards.

Sir Heney James : It would be convenient to let us have it.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Sir Henry James would like me to
read these letters. I will read them now, with pleasure. The
first was the 6th December, that was six days before Lord
Durham's speech. It is signed by Mr. Edward Weatherby, and
directed to you. ' I am directed by the Stewards of the Jockey
Club to inform you that, their attention having been drawn to
the fact of invidious comments having been repeatedly and pub-
licly made respecting the in-and-out running of Fullerton during
the past racing season, they think it right to bring the matter
to your notice before taking any action upon it. I have the

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honour to be,' &c. Then your answer was, on the same day :
* Understanding from your letter that the Stewards of the-
Jockey Club wish to take notice of the invidious comments that
have been repeatedly and publicly, as they say, made on the in-
and-out running of Fullerton during the past season, and which
I have passed over with the silent contempt they merited, I shall
be obliged to you if you will request them to hold a meeting as
soon as possible, and that they will send me word to attend,
that I may prove to them in the most conclusive manner what
foul calumnies the said comments are.' Those are the letters
you wished me to read ? — Yes.

Was that statement true that invidious comments had been
repeatedly and publicly made ? — No, I only heard one.

Do you mean viva voce ? — No, I never heard one viva voce.
I should like to have heard a man say it to me. Sherrard sent
me a little paragraph he had cut out of some paper. I do not
know what the paper was.

I put this to you broadly. Do you read the sporting papers ?
— I read only one sporting paper.

Which is that ? — The Sports7na7i.

Do you or not take an interest in the question of public
estimation as to your own character as a racing man ? — Most
certainly.

Could you name one sporting paper which had not what is
here called an invidious comment ? — Certainly, I never saw in
the Sportsman an invidious comment.

In reference still to Wood, did you ever feel called upon ta
require any explanation from Wood as to his riding of Fullerton ?
— I have asked him about his riding of Fullerton, but I never
had any suspicion of Wood's riding of Fullerton that would make
me go to him and say * What do you mean by having done so
and so ? '

Did the horse ever run so suspiciously in your mind, or Wood
ride so suspiciously in your mind, as to suggest to you the need
for calling upon him for an explanation? — No.

Now, you were going to tell me that you have asked him
questions ? — Yes.

For instance ? — For instance, in the Lincoln Handicap I saw
the horse apparently in trouble about half-a-mile from home, and
Wood riding him hard, I thought hopelessly beaten, and then in

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the last 300 or 350 yards the horse appeared to be rather catch-
ing his horses, to improve, not to be so hopeless and in such
distress as he was. 1 thought something had happened in the
race, and so after the race I said to Wood, ' What happened ? '
and he said, ' The horse stuck in the new ground. Directly he-
got to the new ground he stuck in it and could not go at all.
Directly he got out of it he began to go again.' It was too late
then.

How far is the new ground from the finish ? — Some distance-
from the finish it would be.

How far from the start ? — I could not tell you exactly, but I
should say it is half-a-mile from the finish; but I have no know-
ledge absolutely, it is only guesswork. I think it is about half-
a-mile from the finish.

I think those are all the general questions I have to ask you,.
and I wish to see that I am quite clear as to the result, that there
was nothing in the circumstances in relation to Wood's riding of
FuUerton which was such as to call upon you or suggest to you
the propriety of asking an explanation of his riding, or of the
running of the horse ? — No, not as far as regarded any suspicion
of the horse's riding, or of his riding it.

May I say the same as regards all other horses ridden by Wood
for you ? — Yes.

Did it come to your ears that it was suggested that Wood was-
receiving large sums of money from other owners of horses for
whom he rode ? — Oh, yes.

Was Mr. Hammond amongst the number ? — Yes.

Was it also suggested, and did it come to your ears, that he
had received money from owners whose horses he was not riding
in particular races ? — No, I never heard of it.

Did not you hear it suggested that he had received a large
sum from Mr. John Hammond when Florence won the Cambridge-
shire ? Let me remind you. He was riding the Duke of West-
minster's mare, Sandiway. Did you never hear it suggested that
he had received a considerable present — 1,000Z. is the sum men-
tioned to me ? — I think, now you recall it to my mind, there was
a suggestion about it. I did not understand what you meant at
first. I believe there was a suggestion about it.

I presume you asked him about that ? — Yes, I did.

He denied it, of course ? — Yes, I do not think I did ask

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him about it. I believe he came to me and told me of it. It
would be a very wrong thing to receive a sum of money from the
owner of a winning horse by a jockey who was riding another
and a losing horse in that race. I should say certainly it would
be wrong, what you have suggested, if he rode Sandiway and
received that present of money from Florence's o^vner. That
would be very wrong.

Did not the statement come to you so circumstantially that
you wrote to the papers about it ? — Yes, but it came to me from
Wood. I did not hear of the statement. Wood came to me and
told me of it.

Was it not published in the papers ? — I do not know, I am
sure.

I will remind you of your own letter, which you sent to your
favourite paper, the Sportsmaji. * Friday, the 14th November,
1884. — Sir, — Through the medium of your columns I wish to give
the most unqualified denial to the statement that has appeared
in certain journals ' — what were they ? — I have not the faintest
idea. It was Wood who told me.

' To the effect that Mr. Hammond presented Charles Wood,
my jockey' — that was the origin of the phrase, 'my jockey' —
* with 1,000L after Florence had won'theCambriclgeshire, or that
he, Mr. Hammond, has even given him a present after any race
except when Wood has won on his horse. The statements to
which I refer are tantamount to an accusation of fraud under
Eule 43 of Racing, and therefore ought not to be allowed to pass
uncontradicted.' You now recollect that I called your attention
to the circumstance ? — Yes, I recollect that I wrote that letter.

I am still keeping to Wood, and the reason why we suggest
your eyes ought to have been opened or your suspicions aroused.
Do you not recollect as far back as 1882 very grave statements
being made about the riding of Wood ? I will remind you of the
race which created some sensation at the time. Do you recol-
lect Corrie Roy, in 1882, running against Ladislas ? — Yes, I do,
indeed.

And were serious charges made against Wood at that time ?
-^No ; I never heard it, except that Fordham had ridden him
out of the race. That is the only charge I ever heard.

That is what you say ? — I do. I was thinking of the money
I had lost. Host over 1,000Z.

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Did it come to your knowledge that the American plunger,
Walton, won largely over that race by backing Ladislas ? — No,
it did not.

Do you hear that for the first time to-day ? — Yes ; to the best
of my belief I never heard of it before.

Fordham was riding Ladislas ? — Yes.

Wood was riding Corrie Eoy ? — Yes. Fordham rode a mag-
nificent race ; it was a short head, I think.

One other question still about Wood. Do you recollect a race
that Strathblane lost, and a race on the next day that Strath-
blane won, at Doncaster. Did you back Strathblane for either
of those races ? — Neither one nor the other.

Was anything said about the riding of Wood in the first of
those races ? — I never heard about it until I w^as sitting in court
at the trial about Success ; I never did, and I turned round to
Wood and said, ' Is this true ? ' I meant about his being had up
before the Stewards about it.

Did you know that the handicapper had called attention to it
at Doncaster ? — I knew nothing at all about it.

Do you know that he took the unusual step— as I am told it
is — of officially demanding an inquiry ? — No, I heard what was
stated at the trial, but I did not know anything until then.

Do you know that the Stewards did not hold the investigation
until some time after, at Newmarket ? — I have heard so since.

And then Wood was acquitted ? — Yes.

Did you ever ask him about that ? — Only in court.

How do you account for his not mentioning this to you ; you
were on very intimate terms ? — I do not know about intimate
terms. They were always those of a master to a servant, but they
were certainly most friendly terms.

Had he ever bought any horse for you before 1884 ? — I
will not swear before 1884, but he has bought many horses for
me.

And to buy at auction, or to buy privately, if he thought it
right ?— Yes.

At some race meetings you did not attend ? — Yes.

On those occasions he had the right to determine in what
races the horses should run ? — No, not that, because I used to
name the horses always myself.

Suppose a horse had two races ? — Then I would probably

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either write or telegraph down to him to say what I thought
about the two races.

But leaving it to his judgment ? — Rather leaving it to him
to run the races he would most likely win.

Or not to run if you had not given him express directions ?
— Yes, he would never run a horse of mine without express
directions, without my knowledge, or without sending me some
information.

I was rather putting the other case of not running a horse
of yours if in his discretion he thought proper not to do so ?
— Certainly he would have authority to do that ; I do not
know that he has ever done it. He would have to give some
good reason for it.

In the case of a trainer are not these the ordinary autho-
rities, or a portion of the ordinary authorities, given to a trainer ?
Do you know any case where such authority was given to a
jockey except this ? — Yes, poor Archer had any quantity.

For whom ? — For many owners.

Mention an owner ? — I should say General Williams.

Any other ? — I should think a great many. I cannot tell
you for certain. It was an understood thing and an acknow-
ledged thing. I have heard of Archer claiming horses — ' I am
going to claim this for so and so,' and * I want to claim this
for so and so,' and buying them at auction.

Is it true to say that Sherrard very frequently did not
attend the races at all ? — Perfectly true.

And that in point of fact Wood had the management of the
horses ? — No, never. I had the management of my own horses^

You sometimes were not there ? — I, of course, always wrote
directions beforehand, or sent some one down.

Sometimes you were abroad ? — Yes.

In your absence would it not be correct to say Wood had the
management ? — No doubt I relied on Wood to do the best for
me in my absence. I can hardly say managed, but to act as
a servant would to his master.

Did you ever hear that Wood was interested in horses
running in the name of Burton ? — Yes.

Who trained them ? — Bambridge.

The number of those horses you did not know ? — No, I did
not know. Mr. Burton distinctly denies it.

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Did you learn, or were you told, tliat he had an interest in
!horses trained by Macksey, or in any other horses ? — No.

But he had some running in his own name besides those
in Sherrard's stable ? — I conclude he had, but I have no
recollection of it.

At all events when you wrote, * I have nothing to do with
horses elsewhere than at Sherrard's,' you meant * The horses I
am buying are your horses at Sherrard's.' That is what you
mean ? — Yes.

Then in answer to that letter of yours of the 14th January
-comes Wood's letter to you : * I beg to say I am quite satisfied
with the arrangement in reference to my horses. You suggest
therein you may now consider them your property.' That was
the lease, you paying the costs of training, and dividing the
stakes and making an arrangement beforehand if you entered
them in selling races ? — That was the original one. That fell
through ; we were not allowed to do it. I do not know
whether that letter applied to that.

It clearly does. * I most sincerely hope you may be fortu-
nate with them, for I am sure they are a useful lot ;' and then it
adds at the bottom of the letter, * and I am sure, Sir George,
they are all I own.' Then came the information from Mr.
Weatherby that that arrangement could not be carried through.
I want to call your attention to Sherrard's letter to you.
You had faith in Sherrard ? — Yes.

He objected, naturally, to their going out of the stable ? —
Yes ; he was particularly anxious to keep them.

He thought they were the makings of good horses ? — He did
not know anything about them.

Then you write suggesting that one way of getting out of the
difficulty as to leasing would be if he became part trainer with
Sherrard. * That probably,' you go on to say, * will not suit
you, and the best plan will be, if I can manage it, to buy them
outright from you, though it is very difficult to determine
the value of two-year-olds at this time of year. I shall
consider your letter to-morrow, and will reply to it at once.'
Do you recollect that letter ? — Yes.

Having considered it, you sent a telegram, * You and
Sherrard value the horses and send me the result. If I cannot
manage to buy them, see no alternative but Tattersall's ' ? — Yes.

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Then the valuation comes m the letter of the 8th February
from Wood, accompanied by a letter from Sherrard. Both
letters are dated the 8th February. I wish your pointed atten-
tion to this : ' I beg to say that I have received your message
in reference to the horses belonging to me. Mr. Sherrard and
I valued them at a price we think very far below their value,
but under the circumstances it is perhaps best that you should
buy them outright ' — repeating your own words. * So far as the
money is concerned, why, pay for them when they win it for
you.' If they do not turn out well, I shall, of course, take
nothing for them. Will you please send me a letter that I
may send to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, and say that
you have bought them of me. — I remain. Sir George, your
obedient servant, Charles Wood.' Do you recollect that letter ?
—Yes.

Then we have got the valuation amounting to 2,300L ?^-
Yes.

Then I must ask you, did you, as master of the stable, and
still more, in your position as a member of the Jockey Club
and as an ex- Steward of that Club, think that that was a
proper arrangement for you to enter into with your jockey ? —
There was no arrangement at all. I bought the horses.

I am putting this to you : ' Mr. Sherrard and I valued them
at a price we think very far below their value ; but under the
circumstances it is perhaps best that you should buy them out-
right. So far as the money is concerned, why, pay for them
when they win it for you. If they do not turn out well, I shall,
of course, take nothing for them.' Did you think that was a
proper arrangement to enter into with your servant and jockey ?
— I did not think it was an improper suggestion on his part at
all. They were particularly anxious these horses should remain
in the stable. They could not know absolutely what was the
value of them, because four of them were two-year-olds, which
had never been tried twenty yards in their life, and were totally
unfit ; therefore it was all guesswork. If you sent two-year-
olds to Tattersall's they would fetch 51, because everybody
would suppose they had been tried and found worthless. These
had never been tried, so it was mere guesswork what they were
worth.

Now, I call attention to the answer to this letter. First, a

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letter of Sherrard's : * And so he asked me to value them,
which I did, at a price I thought fair between you and him, but
which I think, and Wood thinks also, far below their value.'
You believe that Sherrard was writing what he thought? —
All his geese are swans. I think he has a tremendous idea of
the value of horses.

You had sufficient faith in him to believe that he was writing
what he honestly thought ? — I accepted his statement.

Then he goes on : * Still, under the circumstances, it is, I
am sure, the very best thing that could be done ' — he is putting
it rather that Wood is making a sacrifice — ' and as Wood, of
course, like myself, would a thousand times rather that you
should have them than anyone else, or that they should be
sold. Arbaces, at 500^., cannot be considered dear; Columbine,
late Trot, at 5001., also cannot be anything like her real value,,
and I think she is worth 1,000L Moncrieffe at 5001. is cheap,
and may make a racehorse of high class, as all out of his dam.
Maid of Perth — Glen Albyn's dam ; and Alucha is a nice filly,
and cheap at 400?., as is also Vol-au-Vent at 300Z. ; and Petit
Due is very cheap at lOOZ., and you can put him into a selling
race at any time, for he is now nearly fit to run, and Vol-au-
Vent will be ready to meet her engagements at Liverpool
Spring if you want her. Arbaces and Columbine you can have
almost when you wish to run them.' I suppose the word
' ready ' is left out ? — Yes.

' The latter ' — that is. Columbine ? — Yes, that is what I
meant. I knew that she was a big, backward mare.

' It would be best not to be in too great a hurry with her ;
she is a very fine filly indeed. Moncrieffe and Alucha will be
more backward, particularly the former. We have requested
Mr. Manning to forward to you by this night's post the plans of
the new stables we are about to build,' and so on. Your
answer to that letter is this. Why do you mark this letter,
which is the only one of the lot, so far, marked private ? Was
it not this, putting it to you plainly and frankly, that it wa&
a letter disclosing an arrangement which you thought it was-
undesirable should be known ? — Certainly not ; I give my word
of honour it was not.

February 18th : ' I am quite sensible of your wish that I
should lose nothing by the horses, and if I take them I propose

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accepting the terms you suggest in your letter in a friendly way,
viz., that if they turn out badly we shall not stick to the price
agreed on now, 2,300Z., but arrange between us and Sherrard
what will be fair for both parties. This arrangement in a friendly
way has nothing to do with anyone else, and no one need know
it. You sell me the horses for 2,300/. with their engagements,
and they become my property now. It is nothing to anybody
else if you come to me and say, " I am sorry so-and-so has not
turned out well ; I will give you so much back." I enclose a
letter to you to forward to Messrs. Weatherby, and it will end
the matter.' I must ask your deliberate opinion, Do you think
if that letter which I have read was forwarded to Messrs.
Weatherby for inspection by the Stewards, together with the
letter which you forwarded, that that would be regarded as a
compliance with the rule, and a sale outright to you ? — Most
distinctly, I think it would. It was a sale outright to me.

Was, or was not, the result of this transaction to give
Wood an interest in those horses ? — No, I swear it was not.

Was it not obvious that it was ? — I ought to have framed the
letter better, because you have twisted and turned it.

I assure you I have not. — I will not say that, but you put
another construction on what I meant when I wrote it. I give
you my word of honour I bought those horses outright from
W^ood, that I owned every hair of their tails, and from the time
I bought those horses Wood had nothing whatever to do with
them.

What did you mean by this ? I assure you. Sir George
Chetwynd, it is no pleasure to me to put these things to you. —
I am only telling you what is the truth.

You see the letter is marked private, and then you say, ' This
arrangement in a friendly way has nothing to do with any one
else, and no one need know it.' Do you not see what it meant ?
— There is no doubt it is this. The price they asked was 2,300Z.
I knew it was guesswork on Sherrard's part valuing the horses
at that price, and there was no reason why it was absolutely
necessary because I had bought the horses for 2,300Z. that I
should pay the 2,300Z. Suppose I had gone to Newmarket the
next day, and said, ' Really I do not think this animal is worth
the 500/. you think it is ; ' and Wood had said to me, * I will ask
SOOl. for it, if you think of it. Knock 200/. off.' At 2,300/. I

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thought I had bought them outright ; but at the same time, if I
had gone to Newmarket the next day, and said, ' I promised to
pay you 2,S00l. for these horses, and I do not think, looking
them over, they are worth it,' I think both Sherrard and
Wood would have said, ' If you think that let us take so much
off.'

Let me ask you, Why should not the horses have been put
up to auction, and if you were able to buy them, and pay for
them, buy them at their market price ? — You see Sherrard and
Wood had an exorbitant opinion of them. The thing was
hurried ; Wood had to get rid of his horses to get his licence ; I
was anxious to help them ; Sherrard and Wood wanted the
horses in the stable ; Wood wanted to ride them, and Sherrard
did not want to part with them. When Wood got rid of his
horses he would get his licence.

There was no racing until far on into March ? — No, but they
w^ere writing about the licence, and he was anxious to get it.

Did you read the rule which prohibits jockeys to have race-
horses ? — Yes ; I have read it, no doubt.

As a matter of fact you did not pay anything for those ho.'ses
until July 1886 ?— No.

Just see what Arbaces won, and what Columbine won, and
tell me whether it was not 1,050Z. odd, and did you not pay
1,200Z. ?— I never had Arbaces in 1883.

You had it in 1884, and sold it in the spring of 1885 ? — In
1884. Then I did not have it in 1885.

You sold it in the spring of 1885, I think ? — No, I sold it
the same year I bought it. It was the end of the year.
Arbaces won three races.

Subject to correction, I am told you will find the figures are
these : about 1,130Z. won in stakes, and, with some moneys for
being second, coming close up to 1,200/. ? — And how much for
their forfeits ?

I am not comparing it with those figures at all. I am com-
paring the stakes they won with the price you paid. — And how
much their training expenses ?

If we are to go into that account we must also go into what
you won by them, which I am not going to at present. Subject
to correction, you will accept that ? — Yes, but I have not the
faintest idea — I do not know.

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Now, you referred yesterday to the receipt which Wood gave
you on the 1st July, 1886. Kindly let me have it. (Handed to
Counsel.) This is the receipt : ' Received of Sir George
Chetw}Tid, Baronet, the 1st of July, 1886, the sum of 1,500Z.
1,2001. in full acknowledgment of the purchase of Arbaces,
Columbine, Moncrieffe, Alucha, Vol-au-Vent, Petit Due, and
800Z., the price I paid for Saida for Sir George. Signed, Charles
Wood.' You recollect that ?— Yes.

Tell me what has become of those horses — you sold Arbaces ?
— Yes. At the end of the year I bought it for 1,100Z. for Mr.
Baird. Mr. Peck I sold it to really. I did not see Mr. Baird.
I understood that Mr. Peck bought it for Mr. Baird.

Then Columbine ? — Columbine I sold at the end of 1886 for
800Z.

To whom ? — I believe the King of Spain. That must have
teen at the end of 1885. She was sold through Sherrard, and
■went to Spain.

The others did not turn out at all well, I believe ? — No.

What became of Moncrieffe ? — I do not know. I sold him
at Tatter sail's for 51. Alucha I sold for 200Z. as a brood mare.
She never ran. Vol-au-Vent died a month or two months after
I bought her. Petit Due I sold for 45Z. for a hunter the same
year.

Who was it bought Alucha ? — A lady, Mrs. Richards ; she had
a breeding stud. She died, and the mare was sold afterwards by
auction in her stud.

Then I make out by those figures they realised 2,145Z., or,
including Moncrieffe, 2,150 ?— I do not know.

Now, you told us about your bets for Wood, the highest of
which, according to the betting books, the entries of which we
have seen, was 50/. ? — Yes.

You are aware who was Wood's commissioner, are you not ?
— I have only heard of one man that has been spoken of as his
commissioner, his name was Hopkinson.

Do you know what was the amount that you put on for
Wood ? Your betting for Wood consists, according to your
statement, which I am accepting, in putting on a tenner or a
pony on the horses he rode of yours ? — Yes, and now and then
the stable.

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sums you put on, he was also put on by other owners when their
horses were running in your stable ? Lord Lurgan, for example ?
— Yes, I have no doubt he did ; on one or two occasions I know
he did.

Therefore, in the aggregate it would come to a very consider-
able amount of betting ? — Well, because he rode so many horses.
The actual sums were small that he backed horses for to my
knowledge. 101. or 151. was the average sum he betted with me.

What he betted through his commissioner you would not
know ? — That I know nothing on earth about. I did not know
he betted through his commissioner. The reason I betted for
him was to save his betting with other people.

But did not you know it so that you marked your account at
Tattersall's, when you lost money to Wood, with the name of
Hopkinson as the person who would settle Wood's account ? — I
do not know, I am sure.

Just look at your account sent in to Brewer, and see whether
I am not right ? — You mean did I mark my accounts for Hop-
kinson to pay Brewer for Wood ?

On the contrary ; did you mark your accounts for Brewer to
pay Hopkinson, who was to receive it ? — Oh, I have no doubt it
was so.

And, therefore, that Brewer would know ?^Certainly. Sub-
ject to examination and correction, I have no objection to the
amounts being stated now. It is 2521. in 1885 apparently.
The highest stake in that year, as far as I can see, being 251.

Sir Heney James : And an average of about 111.

Sir Charles PiUSSell : Then in 1886 the amount is 845Z.,
plus 85Z. There is between 400^. and 5001. in 1886, the highest
bet, apparently, being 25?.

Sir Henby James : The average of 1885 is about IIZ. a bet.

Sir Chaeles Kussell : Now, again, Sir George, I must
really put it you, were these relations which you have been telling
us about between yourself and Wood relations that, in your judg-
ment as a racing authority yourself, and a member of the governing
body, were compatible with thorough independence of jockey and
master ? — I think so, certainly. I do not think the relations
between Wood and me have been anything else except those of
master and servant, only that I have been excessively friendly to
him.

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Now I want to call your attention to another matter. You
were paying at first a retaining fee of 100 guineas to Wood.
Afterwards it was increased to 300L I see from the accounts
you have given us that at the end of 1884 you owed Wood 651?. ?
— Yes, that is his account.

That would be exclusive, would it not, of the fees which he
would be paid through Weatherby — the five guineas for the
winning and the three guineas for the losing mounts ? — Yes.

Those would pass through your account ? They would go to
the debit of your account at Weatherby's ? — l^es.

Did you pay anything in 1885 ? — I do not know, I am sure.

V/hat was the 6511. account for? — I forget what it was for.

Ifc is to the end of 1884 ? — I did not pay anything for 1885.
He never sent in his account at all.

Am not I right in saying you paid nothing in 1885 ? — I think
that 651/. was for 1883 and 1884.

Quite right. — So he sent me a bill for the two years in one.
You. may take it I paid the two years in one.

I want to get this clear : you paid him nothing in 1883, and
nothing in 1884 ? — I do not think so.

You paid nothing in 1885 ? — I do not think I did.

And you paid nothing in 1886 ? — That I cannot tell you.

You paid nothing in 1887 ?— Then when did I pay the 651Z. ?

I wdll come to that in a moment. You paid nothing in 1887 ?
— I say I do not know when I paid this money.

Then kindly look and see. — I find I did not pay it till the
11th January, 1888.

So that in 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, and 1887 you paid nothing ?
— I paid all his winning and losing mounts.

I began by saying that, Sir George. — Quite so.

That was through Weatherby ; you yourself paid nothing ? —
No, I paid nothing.

And you were aware by the date of January 1888, that severe
strictures, well or ill founded, were made upon your relations
with Wood and jockeys ? — No, I was not. I know of no strictures
that were made on me except by Lord Durham.

Did not you know that the one great point of Lord Durham's,
to v/hich I have already adverted this morning, was the extra-
ordinary circumstance (I am putting it in my own words now,
and when we refer to the speech we can see whether I am correct)

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that no explanation was called for by the owner of the alleged in-
and-out running of his horses ? — I know that he said owners did
not demand an explanation of the in-and-out running of tlieir
horses.

And you knew it pointed at your stable ? — I knew it pointed
at my stable.

And you knew it pointed at you principally ? — Not at all, be-
cause I am innocent. I am not going to accept a thing of which
I am innocent.

I say it pointed at you, Sir George. Your brother told you
so, and you thought so yourself? — Yes, I had reason for thinking
so.

Now, again I must really put it to you — Do you think that
relation which is disclosed by the non-payment of these accoimts
was consistent with thorough independence between master and
servant ? — Certainly. I was not obliged to pay him at all.

Not the retainer ? — Certainly not : the retainer was simply a
nominal thing. I begged Wood several times to get another
master who would give him more money than I could afibrd to
do, and he said he would rather ride for me first call than any-
body else who would give him 1,000Z. a year. I said I would try
and give him 300Z. a year retainer, but that it must not be
considered that I might not have to throw him over.

Then am I to understand that instead of your being under an
obligation to pay him 3001. a year, it was a fast and loose engage-
ment to pay him what you pleased, or pay him nothing if you
pleased ? — No, I meant fully to carry it out if I could afford it.

And if you could not, then not? — I never went into that
possibility. I considered it was certain I should do so.

Now, in order to follow this I will dispose of one other
matter. You correctly said that you did make a payment on the
11th January, 1888, of 5001. — after this matter had got in the
papers. And you made a further payment on the 24th May, 1888 ?
—Yes.

Now I want to call your attention to its terms. Will you
kindly give me the receipts — one of the 11th January, and the
other of the 24th May? — Certainly (handing same to Counsel).

The one of the 11th January is : ' Received of Sir George
Chetwynd, Bart., 5001. on account for riding. Received 11th
January, 1888.' I put that in. The next is : ' Received of Sir

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George Chetwynd, Bart., the sum of 151/., the balance of account,
1884.' Up to this moment, am I correct in saying that in respect
of 1885, 1886, and 1887, no payment has been made ?— No pay-
ment of the salary.

As a matter of fact, so far as the last account you produce,
namely, the account up to and including 1884, he does charge
both for riding trials and for expenses ? — Yes.

We have no further accounts ? — You have no further accounts.

Have you been furnished with one ? — He has been paid.

But have you been furnished with any more for 1885, 1886,
1887? — Oh, yes, and paid them.

For 1885, 1886, 1887 ?— Yes.

Let us have them, please ? — I do not know where they are.
You can see the cheque and pass book.

Let me have the accounts and the receipts. Are not you
mistaken. Sir George ?— I am perfectly prepared to be mistaken,
but I am not. You can see in the bank-book.

You have produced the accounts for 1883 and 1884. I want
the accounts and receipts in any later years. — I should think it
would be very easy to find them. On the 30th July, 1888, 1 paid
Wood the whole of his account. You will see the pass-book
shows it.

What is the item you referred to in the pass-book ? — You see,
* Wood, 950/.' '

Do I now understand you to say that there was no engage-
ment or agreement by you to pay 300/. a year to Wood ? — No
binding engagement. I said I would pay it if I could afford it.

This is your answer to the second interrogatory. * Charles
Wood first rode for me as jockey, so far as I can recollect or state,
when he rode Chypre for me in the Ascot Stakes in 1877, and
has ridden for me as jockey more or less continuously since that
time until his licence was withdrawn by the Jockey Club re-
cently. Until 1880 the terms of his employment by me were the
usual ones for a jockey employed to ride in races, being three
guineas for a losing mount and five guineas for a winning mount,
such fees being paid to him by Messrs. Weatherby on my account ;
and he was also paid by me to the end of 1884 the usual fees
when I employed him, as I often did, to ride in trials for me ; and
he was also paid travelling expenses when he had to go from
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1880 and 1881, in addition to paying him for such racing mounts,
trials and expenses, I paid him a retaining fee of 1001. to have
the call on his services after, I think, the late Joseph Dawson, who
was then my trainer. These terms of employment were altered
in 1882, so far as my recollection goes, by my agreeing to give him
a salary or retaining fee of 300/. a year to have the call of his
ser\dces, and this has continued down to the end of 1887, when
his licence was withdrawn.' Is that correct ? — Yes, perfectly.

Then you had agreed ? — I did agree. I never denied that I
had agreed, but at the same time I told him as a fact that I might
not be able to pay him.

Who was the principal owner in the stable ?— General Owen
"Williams had more horses in it than I had.

You would not suggest that he had as much to do with the
management of the stable as you '? — I had nothing to do with the
management. I deny absolutely that I had any sort of manage-
ment in Sherrard's stable, except the horses I owned, and Mr.
Eenzon's horses.

I presume you gave the benefit of your advice to other owners
in the stable as well as Mr. Benzon ? — Sometimes, when they
asked me. I never interfered to express my opinion in any sort
of way.

You generally knew what horses of other co-owners were
running ? — I did not know.

If Lord Lurgan had a good thing — I believe that is the
popular term — you would be likely to know it ? — No, I should
not be certain to know. I should not know w^hat horse he made
up his mind to run in a race.

Do you not try your horses together ? — Occasionally, but very
seldom.

And do you not try your horses with horses outside your
stable ? — I never did. I never tried a horse with Lord Lm^gan's
horses out of the stable.

You mean to suggest you have not a pretty good idea of a
horse the stable will go for in any particular race ? — The stable
never went for one particular horse in a race. Horses have run
in my stable that I never had a shilling on. I have backed my
own. My horses have run quite independently of other horses
in the stable.

Well, I do not want to go into that at present. In reference

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to Sherrard, what was the state of your account with Mm ? — I
was always giving him money on account.

Now tell me if this is correct, that at the end of 1883 you
owed Sherrard 352Z. 2s. lOd. ?— I do not know at all. The
accounts are all right. If you have got them that is sufficient.

Then I want to know whether, after these six horses had been
bought in the way we have heard described, the balance you
owed him at the end of 1884 had risen to 2,715Z. 8^. lO.LfZ ?

Sir Henry James : No. If you carry it down, Sir Charles,
you will see that it comes to 1,400/. odd.

The Witness : It was 1,410/. 9s. Ohd.

Sir Charles Russell : Very well. In 1885 w^as it not
4,651/. 14s. 1^.?— No, 1,556/. 8s. 5cl.

Sir Heney James : Sir Charles is taking the debit side with-
out the credit.

Sir Charles Russell : Then for 1886 ?— 1,299/. Gs. Od.

And 1887 ?— 675/. 7s. lOhd.

That is after you paid moneys — after this trouble arose. The
point is, what is the balance on the 31st of December in that
year ? Is it not 3,451/. ? — The account, no doubt, was very large.

And the last payment making that balance was on the 26th
of May, 1888, was it not ? — I should think very likely. I had
some money come to me then, that is the reason.

Now turn to the * Racing Calendar.' You see Maiden Plate,
colts 8 st. 12 lb., fillies 8 st. 9 lb. You see Lucebit there ? — Yes.

Not mentioned in the betting ? — Yes.

And at a weight which Wood could ride ? — Yes.

Won by Mr. Hammond's Alaska, ridden by Wood ? — Yes.

Alaska starting favourite ? — Yes.

Your horse not mentioned in the betting? — No, not likely
to be.

Did you back Lucebit ? — No, I did not ; he was worthless.

Did you back Alaska ? — Y^es, I laid 100 to 50 on the first and
on the second. Barnacles. Lucebit was worthless ; never won a
race at all for me in his life.

This was not a seUing race ? — No.

Why did you run him ? — I wanted to see what he could do.

Let me remind you, you had run him twice before to see what
he could do ? — Never in my life, I never ran him before.

He had run twuce before ? — Yes, exactly.

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Where did you buy him ? — I bought him at the Duchess of
Montrose's sale, but I had bought the one who had beat him in
the last race he ran before, but that was worthless too — a horse
called Sexton.

Why did you buy him ? — I bought him after he had run in a
selling race.

I want just to call your attention to this, as you refer me ta
that. Will you just turn back to page 362 in that race, which
was Tattersall's Selling Stakes ; that is carrying 8 st. 9 lb., is it
not, and it is owned by the Duchess of Montrose ? — Yes, I know
he did run.

And ran second to Cora ? — Yes.

Receiving from Cora 9 lb. ? — Y^es.

Cora was a very high class mare, was she not ? — Y''es, she
was.

Do you notice that he beats in that race Barnacles, carrying
the same weight ? — Yes.

And that is the last occasion, is it not, that he ran before ? —
No, he ran again in page 386, and the winner beat him six
lengths in a canter. I bought the winner. They were both
worthless.

What was that race ? — A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with
100 added.

Again I must call your attention to that race. He was gi\ing
to the winner 10 lb. ? — Yes.

Still the property of the Duchess ? — Y^es.

And he was beat by a horse that was considered a smart
horse ? — Absolutely w^orthless. I bought him in this race.

But he w^as considered a smart horse ? — No, not at all. Lord
Vivian, who was the owner, told me he was not worth Is. 6d.
before the race.

You gave 750Z. for him ? — Yes, I did, unfortunately.

I call attention to this, that in this race you not only backed,
but you gave up your jockey to ride for Hammond ? — Yes, I did,
because Hammond thought it was a certainty for his mare, and
came and asked me to let Wood ride it.

I do not wish to disparage any jockey who is not here, and
we are not obliged to bring him into court, but he was the
jockey you put up ? — I did not put anybody up. I told them to
get the best jockey they could.

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Who was tlie jockey ? — Goater.

Goater is to be found on outside chances very often ? — Yes, I
suppose he is. I did not expect it to run above 200 or 300
yards.

Sir Heney James : What became of Lucebit ? — I sold him
to lead work. He never ran again for me. He ran once or
twice, and was beaten off.

Sir Chaeles Eussell : What did you get for him ? — 300Z. ;
but I said he was a very good horse to lead work, and I told the
man when he was bought that he could not win a race to save
his life — Count Otto Scavenius.

Sir Heney James : Would you mind, to save me going back
to Lucebit : I find here a race and Mr. Scavenius' s name at
Windsor; Lucebit, carrying 8 st. lib., is not mentioned in the
betting, and is not placed to Edward, carrying 9 stone 5 lb.
That is the next year. He ran two or three times for Sir
George before that, and never won.

Sir Chaeles Russell : I think you bought the mares Kinfauns
and Lovely when you bought Lucebit ? — Yes, at the sale of Mr.
Manton's horses. I should think a fortnight before the race
we are now turning to, about the first or second week in October.

What did you pay for Kinfauns? — 1,000Z.

Lovely ?— 600Z.

Had you any money to buy those horses at that time ?
Were you in funds at the time ? — I do not know whether I was
or not. I think Brewer paid for them.

He had not any interest in them ? — No.

Had Lovely won races before that year ? — Y''es, she had won
two races at the beginning of the year.

Did you try Lovely ? — Not before I ran her. I had nothing
to try her with.

Why did you not apply to Lord Westmorland or Mr. Peck ? —
There was no time to apply to people. She had been coughing,
she had just got over it.

Are you sure ? — I am sure when she came back to my stable
she was coughing, she caught it on the way.

How long did that continue ? — I could not tell how long ;
some days. It was not serious enough to stop her in her work.
All the animals I bought were coughing.

She was quite herself again when she ran, was she ? — She

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looked to be quite herself, but she would not be quite up to the
mark.

She was a well-bred mare, and valuable for breeding ? — No.

Not for breeding? — No, she was by Alvarez.

You told me there were only one or two instances. I want to
call your attention to a good many. Here again you gave up
your jockey to Mr. John Hammond ? — Yes.

Did you know that he was a great friend of Charles Wood ? —
I knew that Wood rode for him, that is all that I knew about
him.

I think you said that you knew also that he had received a
large present from him ? — Yes. When he w^on the Cesarewitch
and Derby he gave him 1,000?. each time. I have, I think,
known it since. I did not know it at the time.

And what instructions did you give about getting another
jockey ? — I told Sherrard to get the best jockey he could.

The best jockey again turned out to be Mr. James Goater ? —
Yes.

I do not know w^hether you notice the conjunction of C.
Loates, T. Loates, S. Loates, C. Wood, and J. Goater^those
are the jockeys ? — Y^es.

100 to 1 Lovely ?— That is not right. I took 20 to 1 myself.

After you had taken 20 to 1 did the horse go back to 100 to
1 ?— I never heard 100 to 1.

I do not know whether you could have got it, but that anybody
who is not supposed to know anything could get 100 to 1 ? — No,
"because I openly said she had no chance.

Do you think it is a creditable thing to see your horse run-
ning in a race against five, and offering 100 to 1 against her ? —
They offered 200 to 1 about Fullerton last year.

How much did you put on Lovely ? — I think I stood to win
about 300L, somethmg small ; it would be 20 to 1, 200 to 10,
and 100 to 4.

We have heard that one of the owners in your stable was
Barnard at this time, was he not ? — No, he only came in 1887.

Did you back the winner in that race ? — I did back it to win
lOOZ.

How much had you to lay for the purpose of backing that ? — ■
I think it was 5 to 2 ; it was 100 to 40. They laid odds on the
one that I gave up Wood to ride for.

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You did not back that ? — No, I did not.

Do you recollect who told you to back Glen Albyn ? — No, I
took it on my own responsibility. I knew it was a certainty ; it
had a stone in hand to Lovely.

I must ask again why you ran Lovely ? — I wanted to see what
she could do ; I could not try her.

Still I must ask you again. I am prepared to ask you fully,
what object could you serve by running Lovely to appear in the
betting at 100 to 1 ? — If it won the race, what object was there
when I backed her to win 300Z. ? I did not know they were going
to lay 100 to 1 against her. I told Goater to do his best on her.

Did you tell him to win ? — I did not think she would win,
because I thought she had no chance of beating Glen Albyn.

Why should you run her ? — Why should I keep on paying
forfeits on the race ? And you must remember I thought Wood
was going to ride her.

Why did he not ? — He wanted to ride Polaris, because he
thought she had not a chance, and Polaris was a certainty.

I do not want to say anything invidious about other people
who are not in question. You would not have selected Goater ?
— I did not mind.

Where was she ? — I think she finished rather well ; she
finished about fourth. Goater after the race told me she ran
very well.

There were five runners, and she finished fourth ? — Yes.

The winner won by four lengths, two lengths between the
second and third, and she finished fourth ? — She and Polaris
finished close together. Polaris was a hot favourite. She ran
pretty well, but she died away.

Did you try her before she ran at Liverpool ? — Yes.

What with ? — With a lot of animals ; she was beaten in her
trial by several animals.

Now, will you turn to Lovely's race, five furlongs, Croxteth
Cup. You were second favourite, you see ? — Yes.

After Pillery. How much had you on that race on Lovely ?
A large sum, had you not ? — No, I had 140Z. on Lovely, at 5^
to 1, and 6 to 1 too.

You mean you got 6 to 1 for some of your money ? — Yes,
50Z.

Which of those two fields do you consider the best, the one

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at Newmarket or the one here ? — The one at Newmarket ; the
best form, certamly.

Glen Albyn ? — Certamly, he was a very fast horse.

What I am puzzled about is this, how running at Newmarket
she started at 100 to 1, and you did not back her for a halfpenny,
you thought it right to take 6 to 1 about her here ? — Because she
was better. After an animal gets a cough she takes some time
to get over the cough.

With very slight improvement, 100 to 1 offered ? — A different
class of horse. I cannot control the market.

Two different weights ? — Yes, but Glen Albyn would always
beat her at those weights.

Wood backed her at 100 to 1 at Newmarket ; had he backed
her at Liverpool ? — He backed her for 101. at Liverpool.

Will you turn to Kinfauns. You bought her also at a sale ? —
Yes.

She had not won that year before ? — No, she did not win for
two years afterwards.

Maid of Perth, what was the first race she ran in your
colours ? — That was the same day, I think.

Ditch Mile Welter, Albert Melville, 3 yrs., 9 st. 9 lb. ; Mr.
Douglas Baird's Man-of-War^that is not the same gentleman
we have been talking about — 4 yrs., 10 st. ; Cohort, 4 yrs.,
11 St.; Kinfauns, 3 yrs., 8 st. 121b. ; and again here you
give up your jockey ? — Yes.

Had Kinfauns been coughing ? — Y^es.

May I take it that your description about Lovely may be
taken to apply to Kinfauns ? — Yes.

Stopped for a few days in its work ? — Yes, no doubt.

And not perfectly fit ? — Not perfectly fit.

I must again remind you, you gave up your jockey to a horse
not trained in your stable ? — Yes, trained in my stable.

Was he, then, trained in your stable ? — Yes, he was.

And he was made favourite ? — Yes, he had won a race by six
lengths at the beginning of the week, I think, and he had won
ten lengths at the beginning of the week — on the Monday.

I will refer to that in a moment if you think it is important.
Did you back Cohort ? — Yes.

How much ? — I think about 80/., 120/. to 80/. ; he was a hot
favourite.

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Was Wood on ? — Yes, I gave up Wood to ride him.

What instructions did you give about who was to ride your
own mare ? — I gave the same instructions as about Lovely. I
think Goater was engaged to ride them both at the same time ;
so I understood.

Did you back Kinfauns ? — No, not for a halfpenny.

Then you see 5 to 1 Kinfauns ? — Yes.

So that you have two horses on the same day starting at
100 to 1 and 50 to 1 ? — It is not unnatural. I told everybody
they had been coughing.

And the day before, Lucebit ? — Yes, he was worthless. 500
to 1 was his proper price, I think.

That makes me puzzled all the more why you ran her. How
did Kinfauns run in that race ? — Rather well.

She was not placed ? — No, she appeared to tire in the last
200 yards. Goater told me she ran very well for two-thirds of
the distance.

That is not very useful running? — No, but I thought she
would come on.

Did you try her ? — Yes, and she was beaten in her trial.

What distance horse was Spectrum ? — Spectrum had no dis-
tance.

Could you try six furlongs ?— No, this was a mile I tried. I
do not think really he had any distance. As a four-year-old he
was rather a hurdle racehorse than a flat racehorse.

Then it stands thus, Kinfauns went two-thirds of the distance
in that race won by Albert Melville ? — Yes.

Which was what distance ? — It was a mile.

Then you tried her with these two animals ? — And other
animals too. There were other animals in the trial.

And she was beaten ? — Yes.

Did you see the trial ? — No.

Did you get a report of it ? — Yes, Sherrard wrote to me and
told me of the report of these two trials, and I wrote back to him
that I thought Lovely had no chance at Liverpool, and Kinfauns
might just win.

And you had no further grounds, except the different run-
ning at Newmarket, and in this trial, in which she was first
beaten ? — Yes.

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She was in the first race of the day ? — Yes, she was.
I must call your attention to this, because Wood rides her ? —
Yes, Wood rides her.

Instead of Goater ? She starts at 5 to 4 in a field of how
many horses ? — Twelve horses.

1 1 was mistaken about the money you had on this as com-
paring it with Lovely. You had a large sum on this ? — Yes, I
had a plunge, 1,045Z.

I must again ask you this question : Does it not strike you
yourself that upon such terms as you told us, this mare, amiss as
you say, not herself at Newmarket, running badly except for two
parts of the distance Three parts of the distance.

Tried, beaten, that there is a very marked and very extra-
ordinary contrast between her starting at 50 to 1 in the small
field and starting at 5 to 4 against in a large field within ten
days ? — I think that that is not at all remarkable in her form
in the race ; I think it is exactly the same ; I think it is fif-
teen days afterwards. Go through her running for the two
years. Do not go through this race alone. She did not win
a race for three years, and when she did win I laid against
her.

Was she yours then ? — Yes, she was.

Y^ou laid against your own horse ? — I laid against my own
horse. I backed another one in the same race. That is the
same thing. There were only three, and one had no chance.

You referred us to the Siiortsman, I will not say as your
organ, but did' you not know that there were very strong com-
ments about that race ? — I dare say there were — unfair com-
ments, I think.

Speaking of the way in which there was a rush — tumbling
over one another is the expression — to bet. Did you back her
yourself ? — Yes, I think nearly entirely myself. Brewer backed
her for some of the money, and I backed her every other bet
myself.

That was a bet, I think, at 625 to 500 ?— I should think 500.
He would put me half the money on, and I put half the money
on myself. You must remember very strong orders were given
about these mares to Goater. You rather insinuate that their
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ning is exactly the same myself, not to prove that their running
at Liverpool is one atom better than it was at Newmarket ; but
what I want to say is — and you can call Goater — that I gave
Ooater the strongest orders to ride these horses in the strongest
manner, because I had given up Wood in the race.

Tell us what they were ? — I said 'It is a fact these animals
have been slightly amiss, but mind you do your best on them ;
only when you are really positive you are beaten, you are not to
inock them about.'

I am not suggesting that you told him to pull them ? — I wish
to point it out to you.

Not to punish them ? — He would have to punish them if it
came to a finish, but not to needlessly abuse ; in fact, I hate a
jockey hitting a horse.

Who were the stewards in that year, do you recollect ? — Lord
Suffolk, Lord March ; I do not know who the other was. Lord
Zetland, I think; I am not sure.

You are aware, are you not, that they regarded the running
of Kinfauns and Lovely as so suspicious that they had Goater
up ? — Yes, they wrote to me some time afterwards on account of
these rumours.

Of course you would not know what motives were actuating
them, but probably partly because of their starting friendless at
JS[ewmarket, and being apparently backed for a good deal of money
at Liverpool ? — Yes, I backed Lovely twice at Liverpool ; she
ran the second day, and she was well beaten again ; but she ran
rather better, because it was six furlongs, which suited her
better. She was certainly 7 lb. better at six furlongs than she
was at five.

Take the race as it was run at Newmarket in either case — the
actual race as it was run — was there anything to warrant you in
putting so much money on either of them ? — Not to warrant me
in doing so, I do not think there was, but I of course thought they
were different animals when they were running at Liverpool. As
I said, all Sherrard's geese were swans.

They were beaten in trial ? — Yes, still he thought they were
improved. I dare say Sherrard considered he had improved them
a stone. I have no doubt Sherrard was carried away by the
idea that he was a much better trainer than Arnold, and he told
me the other day that a horse had improved 20 lb., which was

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beaten off when slie was tried. He told me this, and as an
owner I w^as glad to hear it, and took advantage of it.

You say Sherrard is a man of sanguine disposition, who
regards all his geese as swans ? — Yes ; but still I suffer for it.
It is quite honest on his part ; but I do.

You knew of that inquiry ? — I knew of that inquiry because
Lord March directed Weatherbys to write to me and tell me
that they required to have Goater up to consider his riding on
that occasion.

Did you tell the Stewards you had backed Lovely and
Kinfauns at the two races at Liverpool ?^I told the Steward
I had backed Lovely in one race to win more money than in the
other.

Sir Charles Russell : Mr. Weatherby, will you produce
the correspondence that passed on this occasion ? (The same
was produced.) The first letter is from Lord March to Sir
George Chetwynd ; it is December 1884 ; there is no date upon
it : ' We shall have in a few days to go through the different
applications for licences from the jockeys. We — that is Zetland,
Suffolk, and I — talked the matter over last time we met, and
decided, before granting J. Goater his licence, we should call
upon him to explain his riding of Lovely and Kinfauns at
Newmarket in the autumn, as the betting and performance of
those horses when he rode, and when Wood rode them shortly
after at Liverpool, have given rise to considerable comment. I
therefore send you a line, as the horses are your property, to let
you know what we have done, are going to do, or propose doing.
— Yours very truly, March.' Then the next is an answer, I
suppose, from Sir George Chetwynd to Lord March, dated
December 30th : ' Do what you like about Goater ; but I tell you
beforehand that no fault is to be found with his riding the two
mares in question, who had both been coughing, and, of course,
the Ring knew it. Wliy did you not speak to me at the time ?
Being a member of the Jockey Club myself for so many years, I
should have been the first to find fault with Goater if he
had deserved it, and your present action is throwing blame on
my taking no steps in the matter, simply because there were none
to take.' The next is from Sir George Chetwynd to Lord March,
dated the 23rd January, 1885 : * I do not know whether you
have seen Goater yet on the subject of his riding my two animals,

II. Q

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Lovely and Kinfauns, at Newmarket ; but if your interview with
him is not wholly satisfactory, as ought to be the case, consider-
ing the stringent orders he received from me personally, I
believe that you, the Stewards, should see me or my trainer,
Sherrard, as I should not wish the slightest suspicion (however
unjust) to be attached to people in my employ, or to the running
of my horses ; and although you, the Stewards, might have
consulted me first, I naturally wish you should have every infor-
mation possible that the matter may be satisfactorily cleared up.
I have just seen Edward Weatherby, who tells me you do not
meet until February 4th ; so do not trouble to answer this until
necessary.' The next is from Lord March to Sir George
Chetwynd (no date, apparently) : ' I have waited to answer your
letter until after seeing Goater, whom we exonerate from all
blame. As regards our not having said anything to you sooner
than we did, we took the matter into consideration the first time
we met after the Liverpool Autumn Meeting, and then lost no
time in communicating with you. Although they may not have
reached your ears, I am told — for I was not there myself — that
some very strong comments were made at Liverpool with regard
to the improvement in Lovely and Kinfauns since Newmarket,
and also with regard to the different prices laid against them
at the two meetings. If the same thing had occurred with
regard to ' — then two names are mentioned which I need not
read — ' if the same thing had occurred with regard to ' (those
persons') ' horses, would not you yourself have thought that
some explanation was desirable ? When Suffolk spoke to you
at Newmarket you said that the Ring were laying against Goater,
and not against your horses. The Ring did not, however, lay
those sort of prices against Goater at other times. They were
aware, no doubt, as you say, that the horses were not fit ; but
we (the Stewards) cannot but think that no good purpose was
served by a member of the Jockey Club of some years' standing
running a horse under those conditions.' Then the concluding
letter is the 11th February : ' Many thanks for your letter. I
am sorry the Stewards took notice of malicious comments that
I treated mth the contempt they deserved. I was perfectly
justified in running my horse under the circumstances. A fort-
night before they had come from the sale ring and were attacked
with coughs. When recovered I had no horse to ascertain their

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merits with at the time, as Arbaces had his work to do on the
Tuesday. I therefore determined to rmi them, not with the
view to deceive the handicapper, as I openly stated the two
animals had been amiss, but that I wished to see what they
could do, believing that two more good gallops and a trial
would make them all right. Hammond, in one instance, and
Westmorland, in the other, begged me to let off Wood, which
I agreed to do, provided I could get a good jockey. My orders
to Goater were to ride them right out, but not to hit them.
I backed Lovely for the same amount as I did Glen Albyn.'
That is not quite correct ? — It is not correct. As a matter of
fact, I backed her to win more than Glen Albyn.

It is not what you backed it to win, it is what you backed
it for ? — I backed Lovely to win as much as I did Glen Albyn.

That is not it at all. It is what you backed it for. You
backed one for 14L, and you backed the other for 40Z. ? — But
to win 200Z. more on Lovely.

One was a long price and the other a short price ? — Yes.

' I backed Lovely for the same amount that I did Glen
Albyn, who had, as he has now, quite 10 lb. in hand of her.
Kinfauns, I know, had no chance of beating Cohort, though
Goater said she ran fast. After a few gallops we tried them,
though both were beaten, though they ran fairly in bad company
at Liverpool, where The Mate gave Kinfauns 16 lb., and would
have beaten her three lengths but for being tailed off at the
Canal points. The gallops, trials, and races at Liverpool
improved Lovely much, and she won at Shrewsbury. I have
some knowledge of handicapping, and I defy anyone to prove
that the Liverpool form of the two mares was more than three
or four pounds better than their Houghton week form. I am
not in the habit of running any horses unfit ; but, with a
large stable, sometimes I am obliged to, and make no secret
of it. Admiral Pious and General Peel laid down that it was
perfectly justifiable to do so. You, the Stewards, say no good
purpose was served by my doing what I did. Perhaps when
you have read this you will, at all events, agree that no possible
harm was meant by the policy I pursued, which policy, under
a similar emergency, I should not hesitate to pursue again, in
spite of the comments of my enemies.— Yours very truly.' Let
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mentioned, and I believe quite correctly mentioned, that in the
case of these horses you called the attention of the Ring to their
being in an unfit condition. You said so ? — Unfit condition ?

You said a few minutes ago when you backed either Kin-
fauns or Lovely, or both, that you said that to the Ring. I asked
you to recollect that you were offered more money, and you said
that you probably were. Did you not say that ? — I told every-
body on the course that the horses had no chance.

You said, I think, that you told the Ring, and, in reference
to another horse, you said you had called the handicapper's
attention to it — namely, in reference to Fullerton ? — I said I
did call it.

I am accepting the statement. I want just to remind you
of this running if a person is wicked enough or dishonest
enough to do it. Running horses when they are unfit is with
a view to get them lighter in weight with the handicapper in
future handicaps ? — Not necessarily. If he has that object, yes.
How many times has one run two-year-olds in public unfit ?

I said if a man was doing it unfairly, that would be the
object ? — It would be the object if he meant to run them on
purpose to deceive the handicapper.

The expression is sometimes used to throw dust in the eyes
of the handicapper ? — Yes.

Major Egerton is not the only handicapper ? — No. But you
could not expect me to go round to every single handicapper
and say, ' I am going to run this horse ; it is not quite fit.'
First of all, go to Lincoln, then go to Epsom, and then go down
to Newmarket. You can only tell the man present at the
time.

Arbaces was one of the six horses the negotiations for the
sale of which began at the end of 1883 and completed at the
beginning of 1884 ? — Yes.

Sir Heney James : I am sure my learned friend has shown
every desire, as I have done, not to raise any technical objec-
tions ; but let me point out that my friend is now proceeding to
ask about Arbaces in respect to in-and-out running, and you will
see it is not mentioned in the particulars.

Sir Chaeles Russell : To begin with, as regards that, I
should be entitled to ask it as going to the credit of the witness,
if for no other reason, but I think it is desirable, in the interests

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of both parties, that the inquiry should be thorough and com-
plete ; and if necessary to add it to the particulars I will make
the formal application.

Sir Henry James : I think that is correct, and I will not
object on the part of Sir George Chetwynd.

Sir Charles Eussell : The horse did not run until Good-
TYOod ? — No.

Had he won or lost his trial ? — He lost his trial ; he had been
beaten very easily.

You gave up Wood to ride Cohort ? — Yes, because I knew
Arbaces had no chance at all.

Why did you run him ? — It was his engagement, and I did
not know what was gomg to run before he went to Goodwood.

You notice Cohort starts second favourite, and finished
second, and your horse is not quoted in the race at all ? — No, and
not likely to be. I did not back it for a halfpenny.

That I understand ; but you did back, did you not, the winner?
— The first and second I backed.

Cohort was not in your stable at that time ? — He was in
Bloss's stable, where I had horses trained.

Had you any in Bloss's stable in 1884 ? — I am not sure, but
I think I had ; anyhow, I knew nothing about Cohort as far as
being in the stable went with him.

You backed in that race Cohort to win you 600/. ? — I do not
know for certain, but if you have got it down I dare say that is
correct. I know I backed it.

And Stockholm you backed to win you 360/. ? — Yes, I dare
say that is right.

Now I call your attention to the next time Arbaces ran. —
Before having done with that race of Arbaces, I want to tell you
that he had not a thousand to one chance of getting a mile to
begin with, because his best course is 5 furlongs, and although
he was infamously handicapped in this race he had no chance of
getting a mile with a stone off.

That makes it marvellous to me, first of all, that if a horse
will not go a mile, you enter him in the race at all ? — No, it is
not marvellous at all ; I did not know what his course was before
I entered him. He had never been tried before I entered him.

Having tried him, and arriving at the conclusion that he had
not a thousand to one chance, why run him ? — Because he had

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an impossible weight to win with, and if I did not run him he
would have always had that weight upon him.

You run him to show that he ought to have a lighter weight ?
— Yes.

That I appreciate. The object of running him was to get
him in future races with a lighter weight ? — I should have been
very glad if he could have won, but he could not, and the object
was to show that he was badly handicapped, and that he had no
chance with that weight.

I do not know why you should be glad that he should have
won ? — I am always glad when my horses win races, even when
I have lost heavily upon the race.

The next time he runs is at Kempton Park Mid-weight
Handicap, and you notice there he is second favourite ?— Yes.

Beaten a neck ? — Yes.

Did you back him there ? — A little.

I think you had 1501. on Arbaces ? — Was it as much as
that ?

Yes, and 120/. to 100/. Eollo and Brayley coupled ?— That
shows I did not fancy Arbaces much ; with only five running
backing three horses.

You had on 150/. at 7 to 2 ? — Yes, but I had money on
others.

You made him the best winner ? — Yes, slightly.

That was 6 furlongs ? — Yes, and it was beaten by Eollo, a
very bad horse, that ran four times afterwards and could not win :
and then, again, Brayley was only a selling plater.

Then he ran again at the same meeting ? — Yes, and the next
day he runs.

There he was ridden by Wood ? — Yes.

Carrying 7 st. 8 lb. He is getting down in weight ? — It is a
different scale of handicapping from the other one.

Had you any money on there ? — Yes, 41/. I backed him to
win 450/. to 41/.

He does not run again, I think, till October ? — I do not think
so. I know he did not run for some time after.

I want to call attention to this race particularly — the Sun-
bury Mid-weight Handicap, at Kempton. Is the flat course at
Kempton a severe one or not ? — No ; certainly not the one round
the turns.

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There lie starts in a field of eight horses third favourite,
ridden by Wood, and won by three lengths, beating Eunice, Modiste,
Lowland Duke, Jubilant, Capitolina, Neruda, Gossip ? — -Yes.

What did you win upon that race? — 1,850/. altogether, of
which 500/. was for someone else. I had 250Z. upon him, and I
won 1,250/. for myself.

You also put 100/. on for somebody else ? — Y^es. You will
see that Eunice was giving a great deal of weight, carrying 9 st.
9 lb., Arbaces carrying 7 st. 12 lb., and you must also take into
consideration it was October, and the ground was softer then.

You are quite entitled to say that. Lowland Duke was a
horse of some form, was he not ? — Very bad form. He was a
selling plater. I had him the year before and won two selling
races with him, and he was giving 18 lb. to Arbaces.

I am right in saying, am I not, that this was the first occa-
sion upon which you had had what I may call a dash upon
Arbaces ? — It was not at all a dash. I had 100/. more than
when I backed him at Kempton. I had 150/. in the Mid-weight
Handicap, and I had 250/. on here, and that is not a dash.

Upon the first occasion the price is much shorter than it is
on the second ? — Y^es, upon the first occasion when I backed him
the price was shorter when he could not win.

That would apparently indicate that the public were fancying
him ? — I am not responsible for what the public may fancy, and
I do not think it depends upon that very much, but it would
depend upon what I said about the horse. I have rather a
number of followers who back my horses, and very often they
come up and ask me if I fancy it, and it depends a great deal
upon what I say the price at which the horse starts. Upon this
occasion I did not go near the Ring, but only went at the last
moment. I remember being in conversation with the gentleman
for whom I backed the horse, and did not go to the Ring till the
last moment, or I have no doubt he would have started a better
favourite.

Now I think it right, as I have called attention to some of
them, that I should call attention to all of these races. It is
at the Newmarket Second October Meeting, and in that case he
runs against Beatrice, 5 years, 7 st. 9 lb. ; Glen Albyn, 8 st. 6 lb. ;
Leeds, 9 st. 4 lb. ; Nimble, 7 st. ; Arbaces, 6 st. 9 lb. ; Chopine,
6 St. 7 lb. The betting is— 6 to 4 Glen Albyn, 5 to 2 Leeds, 5

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Beatrice, 8 Arbaces, the worst favourite ? — I tliink I got a less
price than 8. I backed him to win 500/. with Hibbert.

Am I right in saying that you lost 25/. upon that race ? — I
should have thought it was more than that, but I will refer to
my betting-book. You are quite right ; it was 500/. to 25Z. I
took from Hibbert.

Now contrast that performance with the next. He starts
there in a field of seven horses ridden by Wood, carrying 7 st.
13 lb., and there also ran MacAlpine, 7 st. 41b. ; Dickens, 7 st.
10 lb. ; Wickham, 8 st. 12 lb. ; Silver Horn, 7 st. 12 lb. ; Caith-
ness, 7 st. 9 lb. ; Bondage, 7 st. He is a warm favourite there,

6 to 5 against, and won by a neck, a length between second and
third. Did you win 690/. upon that race ? — Yes.

How much had you to put on to win G90/. ? — About 500/.

That is six furlongs, the Bretby Stakes Course ? — Yes.

He was best at five furlongs, you say ? — Yes, rather better at
five than six, but he was not rimning against Glen Alb}Ti at this
time. These were very bad horses. MacAlpine was a selUng
plater.

You thought he had not a thousand to one chance against
Glen Albyn ? — I did not think that, but I had to take into con-
sideration the fact that a little boy had to ride him, and no
small boy had ever won on him.

The little boy was Woodburn ? — Quite so, but it is five years
ago, and he was a much smaller boy, of course, then than he is
now.

You must bear in mind that you put' up Woodburn to ride

7 st. 12 lb. at Goodwood ?— Yes.

And you could have had Wood ? — Quite true, and I do not
complain of his riding at all. You put up Tom Loates now to
ride 8 st. 12 lb., and he can ride G st. 5 lb. He rode a horse
called Donovan in the Derby.

I do not understand, and I must ask you about it, why if you
tried a horse, as you say you did try Arbaces before Goodwood,
and tried him badly, you should send him to Goodwood to run ?
— They all run to their engagements. Sherrard would have
orders to take so many horses to Goodwood when the * Calendar '
came out, and even if a horse had been tried it would be sent
just the same, though, of course, I should not be obliged to run
him, and can make uj) my mind at the time.

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Does it not seem odd to go to the expense of employing a
jockey and sending the horse there with the expenses attending
the sending him home, if you think he has no chance ? — No. I
would rather know his public form than his private form. I
believe more in public form than private.

How did he run at Goodwood ? — Moderately ; but he had no
chance with that weight ; it was too big.

Did he show in the race at all ? — Not show to look as if
he was going to win, certainly not. I should like to call atten-
tion to the fact, if you want to go right through Arbaces, to
some other races he lost and I lost money on him.

In this year, 1884 ?— Yes.

You are quite entitled to do so. — He ran in the High
Weight Handicap at Sandown, where Mr. Coventry rode him,
and I lost 598/. upon him.

Where Albert Melville beat him ?— Yes, and I lost 598?.
upon him.

I am obliged to you for calling my attention to it — that is
7 furlongs ? — Yes, we knew it was out of his course.

And a very severe finish ? — Yes, a round turn, but a severe
finish.

Up hill for the last quarter of a mile ? — Not a quarter of a
mile, but certainly upon the incline.

From the turn it is upon an incline the whole way with a
severe finish ? — Yes, no doubt.

You thought this was a good thing ? — I relied upon the
jockey, not upon the horse. I thought the only one who could
beat him was Albert Melville, but it was only Mr. Heron up, and
I thought Mr. Coventry would beat him.

You thought Mr. Coventry was a better rider ? — Well, I did
not think about it. Mr. Heron won in a canter, though it is
only put a length, and Mr. Coventry told me that Arbaces could
not stay the course.

You backed him for what ? — I backed him for 598Z.

It was odds on him ?— Yes, 15 to 8 on him.

Sir Henry James : Odds on him and Mr. Coventry coupled ?
— Yes. Then he ran in the Three-year-old Handicap Sweep-
stakes at Newmarket, 6 furlongs. He was not in the first three ;
I lost 140Z. on him, and he started first favourite, at 2 to 1.

Sir Charles Russell : It is a matter for arofument and obser-

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vation, but does it not strike you as rather a contrast to tlie race
at Goodwood, where he was not backed for a halfpenny, and did
not show in the race ? — You cannot always account for your
horses not showing the same form.

Is it not rather a contrast, your having nothing upon him
there and ha\dng a large sum upon him here ; these good things
do not always come off ?— No, but one must bet according to
one's knowledge, and what one knows about a horse.

This horse was supposed to have some form ; you sold him
afterwards, did you not, for 1,100Z. ? — Yes.

When was it you got Plantagenet ? — I bought him as a
yearling at Doncaster from Mr. Watson, in 1885. He ran once
as a two-year-old, and his temper was so bad — he was a horrible
horse then — that we had him castrated. As a three-year-old he
runs. He ran first at the Newmarket Craven of 1866, ridden
by Wood.

Plantagenet does not seem quoted in the betting ? — No, he
was not quoted in the betting, I should think.
Had you any bet upon the race ? — None at all.

Plantagenet is beaten a length and a neck from the winner ?
— Y^es, he was beaten a neck and a length.

The next time he starts is in a weight-for-age race ? — Yes, at
New^market.

There was a field of nine, the betting was 11 to 10 against
Sylvan, 9 to 2 Plantagenet. The race was w^on by half a length,
three-quarters of a length between the second and third ; Wood
riding the winner, and Archer ridmg Lord Durham's Sylvan,
first favourite ? — Yes.

Did you back him in that race ? — Yes, I did for ICOZ., I think.

What did you win ? — The odds were about 4^ or 5 to 1.

Sir Heney James : The amount Sir George Chetwynd won
really was 580Z.

Sir Charles Russell : How does that performance compare
"with the earher performances ? — Exactly the same.

You think so ? — Yes I do, I can prove it to you. I can prove
that Plantagenet never ran a better race than when he ran in
the first race, the selling race, if you w^ould hke me to do so.

I have no objection to your doing so. — In the first race
■where you say I did not back Plantagenet, which is true, Amalfi
won and beat Plantagenet a length at even weights. If you will

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turn to page 454, that is right at the end o the year, after
Plantagenet had won many races

That is going a long way. — The longer it goes the better is
my proof. After Plantagenet had shown good form in the mean-
while, and had improved, and won many races, and Ripon the
same, he meets Ripon in the Heath Stakes, the Dewhm^st Plate
course, one furlong further than the selling race, and, therefore,
more suitable to Plantagenet. Ripon being ridden by George
Barrett, and Plantagenet by F. Barrett ; Ripon gives him 5 lb.,
and beats him a neck with a good field of horses behind him, so
that I say that is distinct proof that Plantagenet ran to his form
with Ripon to an ounce in the selling race, w^iere he was to be
sold for 300/. in the spring.

I do not quite see how this event, which occurs in the New-
market Second October Meeting, w^ould account for your not
backing him in the first race in which he ran a good horse, and
yet had a large sum of money upon him in the second race ? — I
did not think he was a good horse, and you must remember that
the second race was a mile, and this race was T.Y.C., and Plan-
tagenet is infinitely better at a mile than the T.Y.C.

In that race Plantagenet was ridden by F. Barrett, your ovni
jockey riding Martinet ? — Wood could not ride 7 st. 5 lb.

I quite agree to that. As you do refer to that you thought
Plantagenet could give 5 lb. to Ripon and beat him ? — No, it was
the other way, I thought, inasmuch as Ripon was giving 5 lb.
for the length beating, Plantagenet would be able to alter it.

I think I have expressed myself wrongly. You thought
Ripon could not give 5 lb. ?— I thought 5 lb. for the length
beating w^ould enable Plantagenet to beat him.

And you backed him accordingly ? — Yes.

And the owner of Ripon was of the same opinion, I suppose,
seeing that Plantagenet starts at 100 to 30, and Ripon at 6 to 1 ?
— I do not know anything about that, he might have had 1,000/.
on Ripon for all I know. Those two races I think give absolute
proof that Plantagenet ran exactly up to his form in the race in
which I had not sixpence on him.

I do not object at all to that diversion. Now turn to the
Winkfield Welter Handicap Plate, three-quarters of a mile : your
horse was second favourite, 9 to 4 ? — Y^es.

What did you do upon that race ? — I won upon him. I think

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I did pretty well. First of all I laid 125 to 100 on Edlington
and Plantagenet, because I knew Edlington was a dangerous one,
and Plantagenet beat him by a neck. The total winnings were
885/., and 50Z. to 40?. I laid also upon the two. I had actually
on Plantagenet 320Z.

And half of the coupled bets ? — I mean I singly backed
Plantagenet for 320Z.

Wood also backed the winner, did he not ? — Wood had 51. on.

Sir Heney James : I hope the Arbitrators will fully under-
stand that as to this horse it is not in the particulars. When
these particulars were delivered it was not intended to charge
in-and-out running in 1885.

Sir Chaeles Russell : I quite agree, but I think it right
to take the whole running.

Sir Heney James : I am not objecting to it upon the score
of not desiring full inquiry, but I do say that when the particu-
lars were delivered in 1888 there was no allegation of any
in-and-out running as to 1886.

Mr. Lowthee : The three-year-old running is not charged in
the particulars.

Sir Chaeles Russell : I quite agree that my learned friend
is entitled to say it, but I think it desirable that there should be
full inquiry.

Sir Heney James : I do not object.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Is there any intermediate running
of Plantagenet that you would like to refer to before coming to
Croydon ? — I should like to call attention to the fact that
Edlington was giving him 12 lb. in this race, and he never won
a race in the whole year. Plantagenet won by a neck, and
Edlington did not win a single race during the year, although he
ran upon many occasions.

I should like you to look at the next race he ran in at
Harpenden, when he was badly beaten — did you back him ? —
Yes, for a lot of money.

Roseau there won by a length and a half, carrying 7 st. 2 lb. ;
Princess Victoria, who carried 6 st. 13 lb., was second, and beat
Plantagenet two lengths, who was third, with 7 st. 1 lb., and Fred
Barrett rode him ? — I backed the horse for 330Z. and lost it, and
after the race Fred Barrett told me it was quite evident a short
course did not suit him, and he was a very slow horse.

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You said so before, and this was a further proof of it. Now
go to page 153. There he is carrying 9 st. 41b.? — Yes, a
Welter race.

Amongst the horses running were Warrior, 9 st. 1 lb. ; True
Blue, 9 st. What did you win upon that race '?— 300Z. I backed
My Boy for 20Z., and 51. Plantagenet for Wood.

Now go to the Windsor Handicap. Plantagenet, even money ;
4 to 1 Hungarian ; 9 to 2 Palmistry. Won by a short head, a
head each between the second, third, and fourth ?^Yes, it was a
wonderful race, four horses running to short heads.
What did you win upon that race ? — 362Z. 10s.
Now the Oldham Welter Handicap at Manchester, a mile,
that was his best distance ? — Yes.

In that race there was Lobster, who won, 8 st. G lb. ; Low-
down, 7st. 7 lb. ; Plantagenet, 8 st. 11 lb. ; Syston, 8 st. 4 lb. ;
Shrivenham, 7 st. 13 lb. ; Nelly Farran, 7 st. 8 lb. ; Good Night,
7st. 71b. There Plantagenet starts third favourite ? — Yes.

I am told there is an entry in your diary about it upon the
24th September, 1886 ? — You are right : * Plantagenet beaten by
Lobster. Had a few bets and lost 20Z. upon the day.'

Now we come to page 454, which is the race won by Piipon,
to which you have referred already out of order. — There was
another race at Manchester, where he beat one other horse,
Kingdene.

Have you any entry of the bets as to this race at page 454 —
you lost 1651., did you not ? — Yes.

Now we go to page 484, Plantagenet wins the Mid- weight
Handicap with 8 st. What had^ you upon Plantagenet in that
race ? — I had very little on.

He was giving weight to every horse ? — Yes, I did not much
fancy him, and he only won by a head. I had 1101. on, and
should not have done that if I had not had a good meeting.

Then the next race is at page 510, and it seems to have been
a very good field. Plantagenet, who won, 3 years, 7st. 121b.,
ridden by Wood ; Merry Duchess, 8st. 51b., and she afterwards
won the City and Suburban ? — Yes.

Then the other horses were Recluse, Kinfauns, Forio, Ver-
milion, Antler, Chicard, Baldur, Pinbasket. The betting was
100 to 30 against Plantagenet, and he won by four lengths.
What did you win upon that race ? — I won 805 Z.

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That was liis distance ?— Yes.

Now, page 534, the Allestree Plate : Plantagenet is favourite,
but beaten by Greenwich, and it is a mile, his own distance.
Cassia being a bad third. Have you any entry of any bet upon
that occasion ? — No, I was not present ; but I sent a very heavy
commission to back this horse. I was in London. Alfred Krucken-
berg was down there, and put on a large sum of money for me.

Did you back anything else in the race ? — No, nothing in
that race.

Sir Heney James : I have it that upon that race Sir George
Chetwynd lost 2501

The Witness : I do not remember exactly, but I know I lost
a great deal of money, and I thought it was more.

Sir Chaeles Russell : I will take it so subject to inquiry,
if necessary. — I stood to win a great deal of money, because it
was 5 to 2. I stood to win 1001. or 800L

The last race he ran was in the Final Plate at Manchester,
and beaten by Sir John by a neck ? — Yes.

Have you any entry of any bet upon that race ?— No, I was
not there, but I had 300^. on him.

Now turn to page 21 of the ' Calendar ' for 1887. Plantagenet
carries 8 st. 9 lb., and Greenwich the same weight ; and the
betting was 105 to 80 against Plantagenet, who won by three
lengths. What did you win upon that race ? — I have it here
6351.

Did Wood win 35Z. ? — Yes, Wood won 351. If you look at it,
he was sure to beat Greenwich upon the last year's running. It
simply shows a repetition of that last race at Derby.

At the Trial Plate at Kempton Park I think you had a very
bad race upon him ? — Yes, I lost 890Z. upon him.

Now I want to call attention to page 74, at Newmarket. The
Prince of Wales' Plate, won by St. Michael, carrying 8 st. 2 lb.,
and giving 6 lb. to Plantagenet, the same age, who carried
7 St. 101b. ?— Yes.

St. Michael won by a length ? — Yes, and I w^as not the least
surprised at Plantagenet being beaten by St. Michael, because he
was a very smart horse. I lost 415/. upon that race.

Sir Heney James : Let it be noted that Wood there again
lost 25/. Is that so ? — Yes, that is so.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Then the next race Plantagenet

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wins ? — Yes. I just got back what I lost the race before within
a few pounds. Perhaps I was 50^. over.

Sir Henry James : And Wood had the same amount upon
that race as the other ? — Yes, he had 2ol. on each race.

Sir Chaeles Kussell : Then the next race is at page 276
— the Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood. I believe you backed him
to win about 1,800^., and he ran badly ? — Yes, he ran badly.

Was he in the race at all ? — Wood told me after the race he
was exactly the same animal as Exmoor, but they both finished
some distance behind Ruddigore.

What did you lose ? — I had llol. on Plantagenet at 9 to 1.
I had 230Z. upon the race.

Then the next is at Doncaster — a Welter Plate ? — Y^es.

Plantagenet was in at 9 st. 6 lb., ridden by Fagan, and Lord
Lurgan had Torchlight at 8 st. 4 lb. ? — Yes.

Eidden by your jockey "? — Yes.

Was there any other horse in the race in your stable ? — No,
those were the only two.

This being a mile, how would you handicap Torchlight and
Plantagenet? — We knew Torchlight was bound to beat Plan-
tagenet. Plantagenet had no earthly chance giving Torchlight
this weight.

I want to know how you would handicap them ? — Plan-
tagenet had a very bad accident since Goodwood, which I may
as well mention now, but if Plantagenet were really fit and well
I should think he could have given Torchlight 7 or 8 lb.

Torchlight would have 10 lb. in hand ? — Yes, 9 or 10 lb.

Plantagenet being fit and well ? — Yes.

You say that Plantagenet had had a bad accident ? — Y^es.

When was that ? — After Goodwood he was put in training
for the Great Ebor Handicap at York, and he got cast in his box.
He was repeatedly being cast in his box — his leg was very bad
and he was attended by Mr. Barrow. I had to scratch him for
the Great Ebor Handicap, and then Sherrard told me he had got
over the accident and I wrote and told him to bring him to Don-
caster if he was well enough — in fact I left it to him.

Why was Plantagenet run then ? — I sent the horse to run.
I did not know Torchlight was going to run till I got to the
course, and then Lord Lurgan came to me and begged me to let
W^ood ride him, and I said, * Certainly, Plantagenet has no chance.'

232 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

Now the Newmarket First October, the Ditch Mile, Plan-
tagenet an outsider ? — Yes.

What did you back in that race ? — Had no bet at all of any
sort or kind.

There you give Wood up again ? — Yes, again, at Lord Lurgan's
request.

Will you just look at Brewer's account for that week; see,
although you did not back it yourself, whether it was not
backed by somebody else ? — No, nothing was backed in this race
for me, not a farthing on it. I am quite certain of it, absolutely
certain of it, and I will tell you the reason why.

You will explain it, but you see that you claim in that
account 962?. from Lord Lurgan, which would look as if Lord
Lurgan had put some money on races for you? — Yes, on
Abelard.

Was Plantagenet fit in that race ?— He was poor looking, he
was not fit. This accident had brought him down, he looked
poor in flesh.

There was another horse running in that race from your
stable, Mr. Benzon's Kildare ?— Yes, I did not know anything
about it. I had nothing to do with the management of Kildare
in any sort of way. It was the only horse Mr. Benzon had in
Sherrard's stable I had nothing to do with. He bought it with-
out my knowledge, and I had never seen the horse; in fact I had
not seen the horse when he ran in this race.

You say the result of that, so far as we have got on these two
occasions with Plantagenet, is that your jockey is given up to
another horse in the race, and you did not back your own at
all ? — No, I did not, or the other one either.

You said that, speaking roughly, Plantagenet at a mile was
some 10 lb. better than Torchhght ?— Yes.

Have you looked at its form through Andrassy ? — That was
Torchlight in the summer ; he was much better in the winter
than in the summer. You put Torchlight in July oti hard
ground, and at a hill; he was so much better afterwards in the
winter. That was the idea I arrived at, that he was so.

This last race I am referring to is the October race. — I know,
but Torchhght was much better then. The race you are refer-
ring to with Andrassy was in July, and he had thin feet ; he was
not good on hard ground. I must tell you that Plantagenet was

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close Tip in this race, was fourth, and he ran exactly right in my
opinion with Euddigore, who ran ten lengths in front in the
^Chesterfield Cup, and here Plantagenet was close behind her.

Will you turn to page 493 ? There he wins by a length from
Koster and Wine Sour ? — Yes, they were two hurdle racers. I
backed him for a lot of money.

He does alter there ? — You could not say how he would be
with these two horses ; he might fall down and get up, and beat
them. I thought he was handicapped right up to that form, and if
three or four had run in that race he would not have had the
slightest chance.

Is he not dropped ? — No, 8 st. 7 lb. was high enough for
him on his best form ; 8 st. 7 lb. was the weight that he was on.

He was carrying more weight in the two last races I have
referred to ?— The two last races were Welter races.

What did you win there ?^I won about 300/., but it was an
accident my winning it.

What was the accident ? — The accident was this, that I heard
there were only going to be two runners besides, and I telegraphed
■up to Brewer to back the horse for me for a certain amount in
the country outright, not starting price, and Mr. Brewer used to
send double the amount, and never expected to get it on. If I
was to send 400^. away sometimes I could only net 100/. He
sent 500/. this time. There was a violent storm, the wires broke
down and they could not communicate with the course, and I
got the whole of the money on, and I did not know it until after
the race.

I think the last race of that year is the De Trafiford Welter
Cup at Manchester ? — Y'es.

There Tissaphernes won, carrying 8 st. 2 lb., A. White riding;
Eadius, 9 st. 11 lb., second ; Andrassy, 8 st. 13 lb., third, and
fourth Plantagenet, 9 st. 7 lb. ?— Nowhere.

Prince lo, Quicksand, Forio, Attila, Londonderry, Chippeway,
The Sage, Dan Dancer, Millstream, Hylton, Matin Bell, Mirth,
Vibrate, Horton, and Ganges. Your horse starts favourite? —
Yes.

6 J to 1 ? — I believe Mr. Alfred Kruckenberg put me on 100 .
I believe he got me 8 to 1.

Sir Henry James : Page 507 is the one to compare with.—
There he gave him 8 lb. Andrassy ought to have won at Liver-

n. R

234 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

pool. A stride past the post lie had beaten Plantagenet. He
came too late home. Andrassy beat Plantagenet two or three
lengths, and before the race I wrote to Sherrard and told him
Tissaphernes, Andrassy, and Plantagenet, one of the three.

Did Plantagenet run in the race ? — Yes, I was not present,
but Alfred Kruckenberg wrote to me and said he could not come
round the turns well, he is a great long horse.

Mr. LowTHEE : Do you propose to take all the horses in the
particulars seriatim ?

Sir Chaeles Russell : Xo, I do not. I will tell you the
ones I principally intend to take. I intend to take Acme, Gor-
don— one or two references to these — and Cliftonian, and then I
shall have to call attention to Fttllerton, and several horses
•which come under the partnership arrangement as to horses in
the same interest, practically, running in a race.

Sir Heney James : What year is CHftonian ?

Sir Chaeles Russell : 1887.

Sir Heney James : It is not in the particulars. We never
heard of him.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Yes, Sir George told us in the ex-
amination-in-chief about him.

Sir Heney James : He is not, I assure you, in the particulars.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Page 147, Acme. This is not a
horse of yours, but it is one in Sherrard' s stable.

Sir Heney James : It is Lord Lurgan's horse.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Were you at the Whitsuntide meet-
ing at Manchester ? — Yes.

Did you back Acme ? — Y'es.

And he beats a good field there, does he not ? — Yes, a fair
field. I won 5001. on it. I laid 70 to 40 twice and 75 to 40.

The Sandown Nm^sery ^dnner, Peck-o'-Pepper, 7 st. ; Gold-
seeker, 7 st. ; Zariba, 7 st. 7 lb. ; Acme, 8 st. 12 lb. ; Cassimere,
8 st. 3 lb. ; Relief, 8 st. ; and so on. l"ou were not there yourself ?
— No, I was not ; I w^as in Scotland. I did not have any bets at
all on that race meeting, and did not know any of the horses that
were going to run.

I wanted in another connection to call your attention to two
things. First of all, you see Acme, carrying 8 st. 12 lb., is ridden
by Wood, Cassimere, 8 st. 3 lb., ridden by Weldon, in the same
stable ?— Yes,

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Do you know that, as a matter of fact, Acme was backed,
starting at 4 to 1, went from bad to worse, and finally had no
friends at 20 to 1 ? — I did not know he started at 4 to 1. I did
not know that he was backed at 4 to 1 and went back.

I do not know whether you also notice that Cassimere,
8 st. 3 lb., ridden by Weldon, was not even mentioned in the
betting ? — I do notice it ; I did not notice it at the time.

Sir Henby James : In this race at Sandown the winneV
carried 7 st., and Acme 8 st. 12 lb., a difference of 26 lb.

Sir Chaeles Russell : Yes, I know, between Peck-o'-Pepper
and Acme. I should hke, as Sir Henry James has said that, to
ask, in a match between Peck-o'-Pepper and Acme, one carrying
7st. and the other 8 st. 12 lb., which would you back? — In this
race I should have backed Acme, but Peck-o'-Pepper I knew
nothing about. I think Peck-o'-Pepper improved a stone on her
running in this race to what she carried at Yarmouth a month
before. Goldseeker carried 7 st.

You can hardly handicap, on their two-year-old form, Acme
and Peck-o'-Pepper ? — x^cme is decidedly the superior horse of
the two. I do not dispute it.

And I think you said yesterday that a good two-year-old can
give an enormous amount to a bad two-year-old ? — Yes, if it is
all right.

I want to contrast the running, as I say it is a horse in your
stable ? — I asked why Acme had run badly at Sandown when .'I
got back. I asked Lord Lurgan. He told me he had been beaten
in his trial, and I think he had been under veterinary care too.
I understood him to say he had had a gallop and proved liimself
not in form.

Did you hear any statement made with reference to this race
of Acme at Sandown, about Acme not trying to get off ? — No, I
did not.

Or nothing suspicious about the running or starting of the
horse ? — Nothing suspicious I ever heard.

Nothing suspicious about the starting, the rmniing, or riding '?
— No, I tlnnk you mean the actual starting of the horse that was
going to run in the race ; but nothing suspicious about the race
from start to finish.

I call your attention to the next page, 519. The weights for
the Chesterfield Nursery, which is run at the Derby November

236 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

Meeting, coire out, do tliey, after the Sandown September Meet-
ing ? — Yes, no doubt.

Look at that race, which is the Chesterfield Nursery. Lord
Lurgan's Acme by Dutch Skater, 8 st. 4 lb., C. Wood, 1 ; Duke of
Portland's Johnny Morgan, 7 st. 10 lb., Warne, 2; Mr. Ferns'
Glint, 7 St. 7 lb., Calder, 3. Then come The Shrew, 8 st. 5 lb.,
placed fourth ; Galore, Bartizan, Rose Window, Danbydale,
Bright Star, Brooklyn, Scarlet Runner, R'epeater IL, Polydor,
Maiden Belle, the bottom weight. You would call that a very
good field, would you not ? — Jn point of numbers, yes.

But in point of quahty ? Johnny Morgan ran second in the
Two Thousand Guineas ? — Yes, he was an uncertain horse.

Galore was considered a very good horse — a favourite for the
Derby ? — Yes. Why, I do not know.

Shrew was a good horse ? — No, she had gone off. She never
won a race after two years old. From that time she never won
a race.

Bartizan has won several races ? — Y^es.

Danbydale ? — Danbydale has never won a race.

Brooklyn had some form, had he not ? — Yes, some form ; he
is uncertain.

Maiden Belle ? — I do not think much of any of the horses, if
you ask me, except Johnny Morgan.

You see that Acme was gi^ing 8 lb. to Johnny Morgan in the
same year, and starts in that field of fourteen runners 2 to 1
against ? — Yes.

Won easily by three lengths, do you see that ? — Yes.

Same between the second and third. How does that compare
in your judgment with the running at Sandown ? — This is, of
course, much better form.

On that form in the Chesterfield Nursery, in your judgment
as a racing man of experience, ought not Acme to have shown,
at least in that race at Sandown, better form ?— Yes ; why he did
not show it is accounted for. No description could have been
given of the reason why he did not show in the race ; no doubt
that is so.

Your suggestion is that the horse had a vet. ? — I do not
suggest anything. The explanation was satisfactory to me when
I asked.

Did you back it at Derby ? — 501. was the sum at the last
moment I telegraphed to a man to put on.

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Lord Maech : We are not clear on one point. What was
the explanation given to you — that the horse had been beaten
before his trial at Sandown? — Yes, that the horse had been
beaten before his trial at Sandown, and had been under a vete-
rinary.

Sir Chakles Kussell : You did not ask why, under those
conditions, he had not been sent to the post ? — No, it was no
business of mine.

Did you know before, or was it after the race, this explanation
which Lord Lurgan vouchsafed ? — I knew nothing at all about
it. I had been out of England for a fortnight. I did not kno^y
that Acme had run until I saw it in the paper.

The state of the case is, that when Acme runs at Manchester
you lay 700Z. to 500/. on him the first time he came out, and you
won. You, being away, did not back him at Sandown, when he
was an outsider, and you did back him for a small sum at Derby ?
—Yes, 50L

You were away from the course ? — Yes.

You thought he was sufficiently good to telegraph to have
him backed ? — I did not know anything about it, except I heard
that Lord Lurgan had tried it fairly, and I thought I would have
60/. on.

I again refer you to your organ — the only paper you read — I
apologise to you and the paper. Did you at all notice the com-
ments about that ? — I cannot recollect that I noticed them. The
probabihties are that there were comments in the paper, and I
read them.

Do you know that the moment the betting was opened, and
3 to 1 was offered on the field, it was promptly taken up ? — That
would not astonish me, because he had won a good trial at New-
market, and everybody knew it.

What was he tried with ?— It was a chestnut horse called
Juggler.

Were you not consulted by Lord Lurgan as to how Acme was
going to be tried ?— No, he told me he was going to try them.

I want to ask you now, Sir George, about some of these
partnership horses. You see there the Chatsworth Plate at
Derby. Kunning from your stables there are Brighton, 9 st. 2 lb.,
Wood ; and Lovely, 7 st. 8 lb., Loates. Do you see that Lovely
there starts at a very outside price — in fact, the outsider;
Brighton third favourite, and a large field ?— Yes.

238 EXPERIENCES OF THE TURF

Was Lovely backed ? — I was not present at the meeting, and
do not think I backed Brighton. I did not know Lovely was
going to run.

I am a little sm:prised at this ignorance about horses going
to run. When you are not there I can understand it better. —
Let me point out this ignorance of mine about this very horse,
Brighton. When I was the week before at Liverpool I ran
Brighton in the Croxteth Cup. Half of him belonged to Mr.
Baird — Mr. Abington — and was registered. I ran Brighton
solely on my responsibility, having the entire control of the
horse, Mr. Baird hawg nothing to do with the management of
any of the horses, except paying for half the cost. I ran Brighton
in the Croxteth Cup, believing he had a chance to win ; and I
backed him for Mr. Baird and myself. Mr. Baird's own horse,
Everitt, wins the race ; he beats mine by a short head. I did
irot know Everitt was going to run, and I did not know whether
Mr. Baird had backed it or not. I had backed Brighton for Mr.
Baird, believing it had a good chance to win, and I had not the
least idea whether he had got 10,000/. or 11. on. I wish to point
out that your idea is that Mr. Baird had been runnmg this horse
when I ran a partnership horse with him ; and that I knew
all about the other horse he ran ; but I went to Liverpool
and backed my horse, knowing nothing on earth about Everitt
running.

Now I must ask you, because we differ with regard to our
view of it, about the question of partnerships. In this race the
public would suppose that Mr. Abington was running Lovely, pre-
sumably upon her merits, to win if she could ? — Yes, no doubt.

And that Sir George Chetwynd was doing the same as re-
gards Brighton ? — Yes, no doubt.

But would not know, in fact, that Sir George Chetwynd was
only half owner of Brighton, and that Mr. Abmgton, w^ho was
running another, was also half owner ? — Quite so. I had the
entire management of Brighton. Mr. Abington never had a
word to say to the management of Brighton or any single horse
he has had in partnership with me.

With regard to putting on money for him, have you standmg
authority to bet for him as you please ? — Yes, most distinctly I
have. I could certainly put him 5001. on a race if I thought the
horse was sure to win, without his knowing it, but I should take

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Tery good care of course to inform several people on the subject
first of all, and to explain the position to them.

Declare it ? — Declare it.

Has he any corresponding authority from you ? — There is no
authority in writing one way or the other.

Does he make bets for you ?— He has never made a bet for
me in my life.

You have not so much faith in his judgment as yours ? —
Well, no.

Now, I will take another partnership horse — that is Abelard.
Turn to page 225 of the ' Calendar ' for 1887 ? — I remember the
race.

That is the Maiden Plate, won by Glint, carrying 8 st. 11 lb. ;
Venture, 8 st. 4 lb. ; Eedingote, 8 st. 11 lb. (all two-year-olds) ;
Abelard, 9 st. ; Freeland, 9 st. : a large field ? — Yes, twenty-two
runners.

Wood riding Abelard ? — Y^es.

When had you sold the half of this horse to Mr. Baird ? — •
Originally, soon after I bought the two as yearlings.

Y^ou were at the Newmarket July Meeting ? — Y'es.

Did you back Abelard ? — No, I backed nothing in that race.
I tried Abelard before the race, very badly, w^ith Sly. Shall I
read it out ?

Do so by all means. First of all I tried him on June 20th,

5 furlongs. Binfield carried 8 st.. Wood rode him, and he won.
Sly was second, 7 st. 10 lb., ridden by G. Chaloner. Abelard,
9 st., ridden by Wood. I see that I said Abelard was slow.
Then brother to Eosy Morn, 9 st., Howard, ' not fit.' Anyhow,
Binfield won the race by a neck, and Abelard was beaten three
or four yards from the second.

Therefore that did not encourage you to back it ? — No. He
was a great big green horse and very slow, and this was only 5
furlongs.

You see on page 411, Abelard ridden by Warne, 7 st., Barcal-
dine colt 6 st. 7 lb., Faustine 6 st. 5 lb., Mainbeam 7 st. 7 lb.,
Ooldstream 7 st. 4 lb., Primrose Dame 7 st. 2 lb., St. Alkelda

6 st. 61b., evens on Abelard ? — Yes ; 7 furlongs.

Had you tried Abelard over 7 furlongs before that race ? —
There is no trial in the book or written out, but he had had a
■satisfactory rough up.

240 EXPEEIEXCES OF THE TURE

Did not you try him on the 21st September at 5 furlongs^
and did not Sly win again ? — Sly won again, receiving a stone,
but against Abelard I wrote, ' Not far enough.' It was only 5
furlongs.

Why did you not try him over 7 furlongs ? — He was not
tried regularly at 7 furlongs, but he had a rough up of over 7
furlongs to know whether he could stay. I had tried the horse
at 5 furlongs, and I wanted to know if he could stay. If you
send two or three horses to gallop that distance at exercise, you
can see if they tire.

I call your attention to this, the form over 5 furlongs on the
21st September, and the race on the 28th September. In
that field, which was a field of seven horses, he starts an
even-money chance and wins by a neck, beating the colt by Bar-
caldine out of Chaplet, to which he is giving 10 lb. and a bad
third, the bad third being Faustine, to which he was giving
9 lb. Did you back him in that race ? — Yes, I did, and won
8751

He was not ridden by Wood, I think ? — No ; he could not
ride at the weight. He had 20Z. on.

Now, I call your attention in this connection also to this :
You see that there is a horse there, Mainbeam, ridden by A.
White, not mentioned in the betting, and presumably not.
backed ? — I should think not backed.

I should like to follow him up straightway. Will you go to
page 522 ? — I should like to tell you about this race before we
go to any other race, if you will allow me. I must tell you that
Mr. Baird was not present at Newmarket, and did not know
Abelard was going to run, and I did not know Mainbeam was
going to run. I went to his commissioner, and I said, ' I am.
going to run Abelard in this race ; I think he will just win. He
is a slow, staying horse, and I am going to put Mr. Baird 500L
on, and therefore I declare it to you,' and I told other people
in my stable I should do so. As you see, the horse won. Mr.
Baird arrived the same night, or the next mornmg, at Newmarket »
and was in a terrible state of mind to think he had nothing on.

But he had 5001. ? — Yes, but he did not know it. He had
not the faintest idea the horse was going to run.

He had 500Z. on which you put on? — Yes, without hi&
knowledge.

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Before doing that, did you not think it prudent to ask his'
trainer, who was training Mainbeam for the same race, what he
thought of Mainbeam's chance ? — No, I never thought about it.
I should have thought it very prudent if I had consulted Stevens
about Everitt in that race at Liverpool, where I lost lOOZ. on
Brighton.

That is not the same thing.— It is exactly the same thing.
Why should I go to Gurry, and say, ' I am going to run Abelard
in the race, and I think it will win ' ? If Mainbeam ran I did
not know that Mr. Baird was going to put 500^. on him or
not.

You had no special commission from Mr. Baird to back that
horse Abelard ? — No, not the least. He did not know it was
going to run.

Knowing he had a horse in that race, and that horse was
supposed to be running to win, would it not have been prudent,
before you put on that 500^., to speak to his trainer ? — Well, it
would, I think ; but I never thought about Mainbeam. I never
thought about it at all. He has a horse probably in every
race.

And probably you were reassured by seeing Mainbeam was
not mentioned in the betting ? — Not the least ; I never went
near the Ring. I was not within half a mile of a betting ring
half an hour before this race of Abelard, or half an hour after it.

Did not you put your money yourself on the race ? — No,

Who put your money on for you ? — Lord Lurgan put me
500^. on, Mr. Benzon put me 600?. on, and Alfred Kruckenberg
300?. Having pointed out that horse, and my having won a lot
of money on him in that race, now I want to point out to you
where he ran in the Champion Nursery at Kempton, and I lost
600?. on him, and so did Mr. Abington. I put him on 500?. or
600?. The next time he ran I lost 300?. on the race.

I am coming to the race with Mayo ; you will see my reason
in a moment. In order that we may get the contrast, if there
be a contrast, I ask you to turn to page 522. In the other race
it is a small field, comparatively, of seven horses ; he is not men-
tioned in the betting, is ridden by A. White, and is not placed ?
— Mainbeam did not win.

Now, I call your attention to this, that in a field consisting
pf fifteen horses for the Friary Nursery Stakes he starts first

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favourite. I do not know if you are aware that he was backed
for a considerable sum of money ? — No, I am not aware of any-
thing of the sort ; but I can quite understand he was, as I see
he was first favourite.

I call your attention to this, that not being backed in the
first race he starts in a field of fifteen runners first favourite at

5 to 2 ; then the next, Harpagon, 5 to 1, then 6 to 1, 8 to 1, and
100 to 8 and 100 to 7 ; there are a number of horses backed
apparently. You, as an experienced racing man, would say that
in a field of that size to start at so short a price would indicate
that he was backed by somebody or other for a very considerable
sum of money ? — No doubt he was.

Was there anything in his running with Abelard in the
Second Nursery which would show he had such form as to justify
backing him in the Friary Nursery ? — It is hardly fair to ask me
that. I never took my eyes off Abelard in the first race ; but let
me point out that the first race Mainbeam ran is 7 furlongs, and
this race is 5 furlongs ; and there is an immense difference
between two-year-olds over 5 and 7 furlongs, and apparently he
has much less weight here.

You recollect you tried Abelard over 5 furlongs, and backed
him to win ? — But not on that trial. He had rough gallops
with the other horses, so that I did not do it on that ; besides,
if you think a horse can stay, it is a very clever thing to try
for speed.

Now kindly turn to the Champion Nursery Handicap at
Kempton. Y^ou backed Abelard there ? — I did.

Y^ou thought very highly of him ? — I was deceived. After
this race at Newmarket I tried him with Never, a three-year-old.
Never was a thief, and she deceived me in tlie trial. This horse
Abelard beat her. He deceived me in the trial, and made me
think he was better than he was. I lost 6001. on the race. I
put 500Z. on for Mr. Baird, and he lost that too.

It was won by a good, or rather, a fair horse. Orbit. You
observe that there is in that race Mr. Abington's Mayo,

6 st. 11 lb., ridden by Harrison. Who is Harrison ? — I have
not the faintest idea. I never heard of the name till you men-
tioned it.

You, of course, backed Abelard, as you told us ? — Yes.

As far as you know, you did not back Mayo at all ? — I did not.

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You see he is mentioned as an outsider there? — Yes, 20
to 1.

The Orleans Nursery Stake, 500 sovereigns, for two-year-
olds, Mayo 6 St. 111b., Sandal 8 st. 101b., Shrew 8*st. 10 1b.,
Brooklyn 7 st. 121b., A Life's Mistake 7 st. 5 lb., Carolina 6st.
13 lb., Bonny Boy 6 st. 121b., Darnley 6st. 81b., and Currency
5 st. 7 lb. You see there he starts favourite in that field — a
considerable field ? — Yes.

Did you back it yourself ? — Not a single farthing ; I backed
the second. Sandal.

That is form which is very different from the form Mayo
showed in the first instance, when it started at the outside price
and did not show in the race. — The price is different ; but he is
receiving a tremendous lot of weight from Sandal — 2 st. all but
1 lb., and 1 think she ought to have w^on. I backed her.

You call attention, very properly, to the fact that Sandal gets
a good weight ; but it gets that weight in consequence of the
previous bad running of Mayo ? — No, in consequence of the pre-
vious good running of Sandal.

But is it not so. Sir George ?— Well, yes. I should think
you may say so ; but I rather look to the fact of Sandal being a
goodish mare at the time, getting that top weight on. The
handicapper would consider the best horses first, and then the
bad ones.

Now, with regard to this horse Mayo. Were you at Lewes ?
— I was not.

Perhaps you did not back it in that race either ? — No ; I had
no bet on the race.

There he starts carrying 8st, 121b., the top weight, giving
more than 2 st. to some horses, and first favourite at 11 to 8,
winning by a length and a half, three lengths between second
and third ? — Yes. The most weight he gave was 1 st. 11 lb. to
the third.

I ask you your opinion about those two horses. They were
not your horses ; but I ask your opinion as an expert. Would
you or not say that the running of Mainbeam w^as in-and-out
running? — I certainly should not. Mainbeam was a horrible
horse. He was a selling plater. I have a very slight knowledge
of either of these horses ; but I believe Mainbeam to be an
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Would you say that the variation in the state of odds offered
against Mainbeam disclosed a very striking contrast ? — There is'
no doubt the difference of price is very great ; but I believe
Mainbeam to be a horrible animal, and should not think it had
ever won a race.

Now, I ask you the same about Mayo. Does the price at
which Mayo started in those races present a very striking con-
trast ? — It presents a contrast, inasmuch as he was first favourite
in two races, and they laid 20 to 1 in the other ; but then that
was a big race which Orbit won, and was 7 furlongs, and the
others 5 furlongs. I do not know the merits of Mayo ; but a
man is not obliged to back his horse for 7 furlongs if he knows
he cannot whip it the course ; but when it runs to 5 furlongs,
and has got speed, then he can do it, I think.

You think that it is better over 7 than over 5 furlongs ?
— No, better over 5 than over 7 furlongs.

Was not the Orbit race of 7 furlongs ? — Yes ; but there he
was beaten. The two races he won were 5 furlongs.

Sir Henky James : I want, sir, to make an appeal to my
friend Sir Charles Russell, and I do not object except in the
sense of making an appeal to him. I have listened to his
cross-examination as to Mayo and Mainbeam. Those horses do
not belong to Sir George Chetwynd. He had no interest in
them. They are not trained in Sherrard's stable, and they are
not mentioned in the particulars. My friend has gone through
them, with the knowledge of what is in the accounts of Brewer.
Sir George Chetwynd never backed them, and has no interest in
them of any kind or shape, but because they belonged to Mr.
Baird, who trains in Sherrard's stable, he is asking about
them.

Sir Charles Russell : My friend Sir Henry James shuts
his eyes to the point. The point is, that they are running in
races against horses that are in the stable, one wholly owned
by Mr. Abington, and the other partly owned by Mr. Abington,
but running in the name of Sir George Chetwynd ; and I shall
hereafter certainly make observations, of the weight of which
you will be the judges, as to the propriety of that course of pro-
ceeding without any declaration, and the public knowing nothing
about it.

Sir Henry James : I have shut my eyes and ears to nothing.

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My learned friend started two different sorts of game. As to
the first he started, although it is not in the particulars of
partnership horses, he started one race in which Abelard and
Mayo ran, and Abelard and Mainbeam, and he then pursues to
the end of the course Mainbeam and Mayo, both of them com-
prising, not the first race with Abelard, but comprising subse-
-quent races, and says what do they lead to.

Sir Chakles Eussell : That is the point. As it appears,
there are two horses which are, in a certain sense, in conjoint
interest ; one horse is gone for at one time, and another is gone
for at another time.

Sir Heney James : I do not want to argue this with my
friend, and I am very anxious not to object ; but these horses are
never mentioned in this case in the particulars. When my
fi'iend asks, with respect to Mayo and Mainbeam, why they are
first favourites, my friend knows Sir George Chetwynd does
not own them, that they are not in the stable, and he never
backed them-. It is an attack on Mr. Baird, and I protest
against trying here the character of anybody but Sir George
Chetwynd ; but if Sir Charles Piussell thinks it necessary under
these particulars to inquire whenever a horse started at a par-
ticular price

Sir Chaeles Russell : I suppose the speech of my learned
friend is made for the purpose of ventilating a grievance.

Sir Heney James : A great grievance. My grievance is
that my friend's clients have pointed out certain horses and
given the particulars of them, abandon them, and without notice
inquire with respect to horses of Baird, and not Sir George
'Chetwynd. It is a grievance which I shall rely on.

Mr. LowTHEE : I imagine, Sir Henry, the reference to these
particular horses arises out of the fact that Sir George
Chetwynd and Mr. Baird had other horses in partnership
between them.

Sir Chaeles Russell : And running in the same races.

Sir Heney James : My friend confuses the matter. I did
not object when he dealt with the race of Mayo and Abelard,
because he dealt there with a partnership. What I am
objecting to is going into the subsequent races of Mayo and
Mainbeam.

Mr. Lowthee : But I understand that arises out of it,

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because in order to make good Sir Charles's point that there was
anything wrong in the first race, it is necessary to some extent to
follow up the subsequent running of the animal, which was
wholly Mr. Baird's.

Sir Henry James : You will excuse me, Sir, but if my
appeal is no use I would rather, having the grievance, and
ha%dng a great one, leave it where it is ; but that is not the
object of my friend's last ten or twelve questions.

Mr. LowTHER : I hope Sir Charles will keep to following up
that. We do not want to go into the running of Mr. Baird's
horses.

Sir Charles Russell : Very well. Now there are two
other partnership horses with Mr. Baird that I wish to ask
a question about. First, as regards Cedar, formerly called
Everard, was he part owner of that ? — Yes.

Then there was Freemason. Am I right in saying they ran
against one another in the Craven week of this year, and that
Cedar started at 50 to 1 ? — I should think so, they were tried
together before the race. He was beaten off in the trial and in
the race.

Then why was Cedar started ? — I wanted to see if it was
right. He was beaten off in the trial, and I wanted to see if it
was correct. They were tried at the weights they were to run
at.

Freemason ran in Mr. Baird's colours, I presume ? — Yes.

And Cedar ran in your colours ? — Cedar ran in my colours.

50 to 1 offered ? — Y^es, offered ; and a million to 1 they might
have laid.

I think there is only one other I have to ask about, that is the
filly by Dutch Skater — Duchess of Parma ? — That also was half
Mr. Baird's.

In reference to the settlement of these matters between you
and Mr. Baird, am I correct in saying that they were not settled
between you on terms of payment finally arranged until after
the hubbub began, and the inquiry into the running of FuUerton,
and the inquiry into the running of Success ? — Some of them
were.

Finally settled, I mean ? — Some of them were bought and
paid for at the time by each of us.

But the final settlement was not. I think I can give the

APPENDIX 247

exact date. — There was no final settlement. There was an
agreement with me when he bought two horses for me
that I should pay for them at the end of the year.
He purchased two of the animals, half with me — one was Sly
and the other was Abelard — but then Tattersall's pressed me
for the money for my half. I could not afford to give.it, and
I wrote, or rather Mr. Tattersall wrote, to Mr. Baird, and asked
him to buy my half of the two horses, and he agreed to do so,
and I believe paid the money to Mr. Tattersall. At the Lincoln
Spring Meeting of 1887 he came to me and said : * I do not
want to have the whole of these horses, because I do not wish
them to run in my name, it will offend my trainer.'

Has he not about seventeen trainers ? — I do not know how
many trainers he has. I know Stevens trains for him, but, any-
how, his principal trainer w^as Gurry. I said : ' Well, I will
have half the horses so that they may run in my name, but
I cannot pay for them at the present moment ; ' and he said, ' I
shall be perfectly satisfied if you will do that.'

When was the arrangement made ? — At Lincoln Spring, in
the Birdcage, in the year when the two animals were two years
old — the beginning of the year 1887.

Do I understand you that up to that time you considered
them his horses ? — They were his horses distinctly. They were
originally taken as half his and half mine, and Tattersall's
charged them to each of us, but Tattersall pressed me for the
money for half of those two horses, and some other money I
owed him, and I was not able to pay him the whole, and he or I
wrote to Mr. Baird — it was done through Mr. Tattersall, because
I wrote to Mr. Tattersall — and asked him if he would buy my
half of the two-year-olds. He said he would, and paid the
money. You will see from Tattersall's account, the be.o-inning
of the year 1887 I should think it is certain to be. Mr. Tatter-
sall will prove all this if you wish to know it.

I accept your statement about it. Let me see the receipt
which passed between you and Mr. Baird when there was this,
settlement ?— Yes.

(Handing same to the learned Counsel.)

Is this your writing ? — The receipt is my writing.

And Mr. Baird' s signature ? — Yes.

I will read it, ' Eeceived this 11th day of January, 1888,

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from Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., the sura of 218Z. 18s. 5d. in
full discharge of all claims on him to date, including my pur-
chase from him to-day of his half of Whitefriar and Brighton,
his payment to me of his half of Abelard and Sly, and my half
of Sherrard's training bill for those horses for the years 1886
and 1887, and including money won for me in bets by Sir George
Chetwynd. — G. A. Baird.' That purports to be a clearing up of
all matters, including bets and so forth ?— It was including one
sum that I owed him.

Were these horses during the whole of that time running in
your name ? — Certainly, and registered as my property and
Mr. Baird's — most distinctly.

But as far as your payment w^as concerned, though bought as
yearlings in 1886, you in fact paid nothing until this date — this
all-important date — of the 11th of January, 1888 ? — You must
remember when I bought them in 1886 they were bought for
myself, Tattersall's naturally giving me credit for them ; and
they had nothing to do with Mr. Baird until I asked him to have
Iialf of them, and that was only in the beginning of the next
year.

Then as far as Tattersall's account is concerned they would
be in your name ? — Yes, and they were all entered in my name ;
and on the 9th of January, 1887, I wrote to Mr. Baird, and
asked him to have half with me, and here is his letter. Would
you like to see it ?

Yes. (Letter handed to learned Counsel.) It is the letter
in which Mr. Baird says : ' I will have the two-year-olds ' ? — Yes.

And he paid you the half then ?— No, he did not. That was
a settlement with Tattersall.

It stands thus, as long as they were running at this date they
ran in your name, though in partnership ? — Yes.

In* reference to the two other horses that are mentioned in
that receipt, you bought Whitefriar, I think, out of a selling race
for 820L;?— Yes.

When was it you sold it to Mr. Baird ? — That day, half
an hour after I bought it.

How were you paid for it ? — Through Mr. Weatherby.

Through his private account at Weatherby's ? — I paid for
my half and he paid for his. I did not know how he paid for
ids half.

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Then as regards Brighton ? — He paid for the whole of it.
He bought it for himself to start with. I must tell you Mr.
Hungerford had had a very bad week at Newmarket, and he
came to Sherrard and was in a fearful state of mind, and said it
was utterly impossible he could settle his account unless he sold
Monsieur de Paris and Brighton. Sherrard came to me and said
he was anxious for me to buy Brighton, as he wanted it not
to leave the stable. I said, * I cannot buy the horse.' He
said, * Do you know anybody who would ? ' I said, ' You
had better go and see Mr. Baird,' and he saw him, and Mr.
Baird said he would buy the horse, and wrote a cheque
for the money and sent it up. In order that Mr. Hunger-
ford might settle his account at Tattersall's on the
Monday, I sent him a cheque for the money until Mr.
Baird's cheque came, which did not come till Monday or
afterwards. Mr. Baird, when he got the horse for himself,
said he did not wish this horse to leave Sherrard' s stable, on
account of his other trainer. Gurry, and therefore he agreed to
let me have half the horse, and I was to pay him when I liked.
I registered the horse before he ran, of course, and had the sole
control and management of him. This would be at the end of
1886, and I did not pay for the horse until the receipt was given
at the end of 1887.

Brighton was a transaction in 1886 ? — It was at the end of
1886, within two months of the end of the racing season. It was
in the Houghton Meeting.

It therefore comes practically to this, that as regards Abelard,
Sly, and Brighton, you had paid nothing in respect of any of
those three, although entered and running in your name, down
to the 11th January, 1888 ? — And registered at Weatherby's with
the half accounts, forfeits, and everything charged to me, and
no concealment whatever about it, and the trainer's bill also,
which I paid myself. I paid the trainer's bill for the whole of
the horses.

Mr. LowTHER : I understand. Sir Charles, you are now
alluding to three horses.

Sir Charles Kussell : Yes ; Abelard, Sly, and Brighton.
Mr. LowTHER : Not Whitefriar.

Sir Charles Eussell : Not Whitefriar. (To Witness :)
I am puttmg it to you. Sir George, whether the result is not

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that, as regards these three horses, although they were regis-
tered in partnership with Mr. Baird, though they ran in your
name, though they were entered in races in your name and ran
in your colours, you did not, in fact, pay anything for them
until the 11th January, 1888 ? — Certainly, I was paying every
week for them. I paid the whole of their training expenses, but
I did not pay their purchase-money.

Now with reference to the other horse, Portnellan, I am
particularly anxious to get the fact. Sir George — that horse
was bought when ? — It was bought at Derby, in the November
meeting.

Were you there? — No. Wood told Mr. Blake to buy it
for me.

When it was mentioned to you, you said you had not the
money to pay for it ? — I did. I had, as a matter of fact, at the
time, 300Z. only at Weatherby's, and nothing at my bank. I
could not write a cheque, and I knew that my having to pay this
SOOl. for Portnellan cleared me out.

But you said quite openly to Wood, ' I cannot afford to pay
it, I have no money ' ? — Yes. I was rather cross about it ; I
had just had a bad race on a horse of mine, so that I was not in
a very good temper.

Then, as I understand. Wood said that he would lend you
the money ? — He sent me a cheque by letter ; at that moment
he said to me, ' I will lend you the money.'

And before the cheque arrived you knew the fact (you men-
tioned it yesterday) that Messrs. Weatherby had in fact paid for
the horse ? — I do not know when they paid for it, I am sure.
I knew if a horse was knocked down to me they would have to
pay for it.

Sir Heney James : Here is the cheque (handing same to
Sir Charles Eussell).

Sir Charles Russell : The cheque is dated 19th November,
1886, on Messrs. Hammond's bank at Newmarket, for 315/. in
favour of Sir George Chetwynd. At that time, of course. Wood
could not own a horse consistently with the existing regulations ?
— No, he could not.

If Wood was to buy this horse for himself, what he would
have done would have been to have sent you the cheque ? — I do
not know, I am sure.

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Can you suggest any way in which the transaction would
he carried out without that ? — He would not have sent it to
me, of course.

He could not have the horse in his own name ? — No. You
want to suggest it was his horse running in my name.

I do not want to suggest anything. — But that is what it
comes to.

I will suggest presently, when addressing the Court, but at
present I want to know the facts. Would you look to see what
you did draw out of your account on the 21st November, or
whether you drew anything out ? — Yes, 359^. 10s.

On what date ? — On the 24th November. Whatever the day
is put down here, it was to settle my account. That is the
cheque drawn to Brewer. I lost 6591. 10s. at Northampton, and
I paid this cheque into my bank, not being able to overdraw. I
did overdraw 40Z. to make it 359Z. IO5., and Brewer paid the BOOL
for me himself.

Do I rightly understand you to say that you forgot this or
overlooked it ? — Overlooked what ?

The paying Wood back again ?— No, I did not overlook it.
I suggested to him several times I should pay him, and he said
to me, ' Do pay Sherrard, he is in want of it more than I am.'

You were indebted largely to Sherrard ? — Certainly, to both
of them. I owed them both money. I have never hesitated to
tell you I have been most impecunious.

What particular direction did you give about paying this ? — I
gave no actual direction, but I told Brewer I wanted to pay
Sherrard and Wood about 3001. each, and I hoped I should be
able to do it through my account.

Will you produce Wood's letter of the 31st January, 1888, to
Sir George Chetwynd. (Letter produced and handed to Sir
Charles Kussell.) This is the cheque I mean : ' I received the
cheque of Mr. Brewer, value 31 5L, I lent you. There was no
immediate hurry, as I was not in want of it, or I should have
written.' That is the cheque I am asking about — Mr. Brewer's
cheque. It may be a mere coincidence. Sir George, but I would
ask you, do you allege that it was — these steps you had taken, first
of all, to make a payment in reduction of considerable indebted-
ness to your trainer, and next the repayment of a considerable
sum — dOOl. odd — in respect of the price of this horse, which had

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been advanced by Wood, and the settlement as to these partner-
Bhip horses, and ending the partnership with Mr. Baird, and the
payment on account of Wood's claims upon you, which only,,
however, came up to 1884 ? I put this to you in order that you
may meet it. Were those several transactions mere coinci-
dences, or did you then busy yourself to make those payments
and those arrangements because of the public criticism which
was then imminent into your relations with those persons ? —
No ; how could I have paid them if I had not had the money ?
I had the money at the time, and so that is why I paid them.
As a matter of fact, I did not pay Wood's large account, which
amounted to 9001., until July of last year, because I had not the
money to pay it.

It is no pleasure in the least for me to press you about this,
but I must ask you about this. Did not you, in fact, borrow
money to make these payments ? — No, not to make these pay-
ments. I think I paid most of them out of what Weatherby
sent me.

Did you not borrow money, without which you could not
have made all these payments ? — Well, I do not say that. I am
very constantly in the habit of borrowing money, I am sorry to
say, for three months. I think Weatherby's paid me a large
sum at the end of that year ; I am not sure.

Just look and see. — There is a balance to me at the end of
the year of 1,896Z., and of that sum he sent me certainly 1,700^
I think the actual sum was 1,700/. We can see in the bank-
book.

Sir Heney James : This (producing document) is the account
of Weatherby, showing a balance in his favour of 1,896/.

Sir Charles Russell : The point is when that is carried
over ? — I know I drew it.

I want to get from you this — supposing that Mr. Weatherby
had paid you a large sum, it would be by cheque ? — Certainly.

In the ordinary course that cheque would pass through your
private account ? — Certainly.

And you do not find any trace of it ? — I should think it
would be in there. He will tell us how much he paid.

Although there is no credit as coming from Weatherby, there
does appear here the payment to Wood of the 500/. ? — Yes, I
paid him 500/.

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Also a payment to Sherrard, and also a payment to Baird ?
—Yes.

And all in the month of January ?— Yes, and I am certain
made by Weatherby's cheque, made by the money Weatherby
paid in. I should leave some of it in Weatherby's hands in
payment of forfeits for the next year. I have an idea Mr.
Weatherby sent me a cheque. Here it is, I see. There is a
name down, but it is badly put. It is my banker's fault, and not
my fault. There is a cheque of 1,700Z. from Weatherby, paid in,
and a cheque for 103Z. from Garrard, which makes 1,803^. paid
in on that date.

I want to ask you about this celebrated horse FuUerton.
You heard Sir Henry James, in his opening statement, say that
nobody would accuse Lord Dudley of running his horse impro-
perly, and referred to last year. Is it not the opinion of the best
judges that his best running was run this year ? — One race. His
best and his w^orst race.

At all events, his best was run this year ? — Yes, I think it
ivas.

When he was second in the City and Suburban. Let me
ask you about that : you have talked about the heavy ground at
Lincoln ; was not the ground heavy in the City and Suburban ?
— Heavy for Epsom, but that is not heavy ground. No doubt it
was on the soft side, but quite different from the deep clayey
•ground which they have to run in at Manchester and Lincoln.

The soft ground was not reserved for Fullerton at Lincoln ?
— It is always deep at Lincoln in the spring.

And very heavy ground generally at Manchester in the
spring ? — Yes, very heavy, I should think ; it is a very curious
course.

Heavy ground would not make, in your estimation of Fuller-
ton, the difference between backing him and not backing him ?
You were told at Lincoln by Wood that the horse was going
very well until he got into the new ground? — Yes, that new
ground would not mean heavy ground so much as clayey ground,
sticky ground, where a horse goes right in.

Nevertheless, you had more money on at Manchester than
you had upon him at Lincoln ? — I had, but there it had been
falling with rain. Still, I thought he would beat King Mon-
mouth in that race, because he had beaten King Monmouth in

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the Manchester Cup a mile and three-quarters, when the going
was good, and I knew Fullerton from that race could not stay
the distance.

I wish to convey to you that, in reference to this running of
Fullerton in 1887, I am not going to at all suggest that you did
not back your horse, and did not mean your horse to win as you
did back him, but I wish to ask your close attention, and I come
particularly to 1887 to the riding of this horse. Now, first as
regards 1886, you bought Fullerton in 1885 ? — Yes.
For 1,500Z.?— Yes.

He had a good, creditable two-year-old record? — One race I
bought him on only. Other races were not creditable.
You judge a horse by his best performance ? — Yes.
I want to go through this running, and you, sir, will be re-
lieved when I say this is the only horse whose running I intend
to trouble you with in detail. I think he first runs, does he not,
in the Fourth Welter, page 83 in the ' Calendar,' of 1886 ?
Had you tried him before he ran after you bought him ? — Yes.

What date ? — It is no date— it would be towards the end of
1885, the end of the Newmarket meetings in 1885, two-year-old,
after he had run at Leicester, I tried him a mile on the Lime
Kilns. Spread Eagle carried 7 st. 7 lb., Fullerton carried 9st.
91b., and Pampas Grass carried 7 st. 71b. — all two-year-olds —
and he was not fit. Spread Eagle won in a canter by I do not
know how many lengths. In fact, I re-handicapped them at a
stone at least.

You were there trying Fullerton to give 17 lb. ? — To a bare
selling-plater, and he was beaten six lengths, and after that
trial I was so disgusted with him that I thought I had made a
bad bargain.

Now the horse runs next after that at the Newmarket Spring
Meeting ? — Yes.

And runs, I think, on Friday : that would be the 30th.
Economist, by the Miser, 4 years, 7 st. 5 lb. ; Ripon, 3 years,
7 st. 7 lb. ; Cintra, 4 years, 9 st. 5 lb. ; Fullerton, 3 years,
9 st. ; Lady's Maid, 3 years, 8 st. 8 lb. ; Dalesman, Merriment,
Silversmith and Gules ; Dalesman favourite ; Economist, Ripon,
and Gules, second favourite ; 6 to 1 Ladysmaid, 8 to 1 Merri-
ment, 100 to 12 Cintra, 10 to 1 Silversmith and Fullerton.
Gules won, apparently, but w^as disqualified ? — Yes.

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You did not back Fullerton there ? — No, he was not fit. I
had no bet on the race.

You see he is handicapped there upon his two-year-old form
at 9 St., you see he is the top weight ? — Yes.

When did he run next ? — He ran next in the Stewards' Cup
at Goodwood.

Was he tried before that ? — He was tried many times before
that.

We will have them all ?— On May 22nd, 1886, Rowley Mile,
Giesshubler carried 7 st. 3 lb., Howard rode it ; Periosteum,
7 st. 4 1b., Tomlinson ; Fullerton, 9 st. 71b., Wood; Vicious,
6 St., Barker : Giesshubler first.

Giesshubler was then a four-year-old ? — Yes, Giesshubler wss
a four-year-old.

You were trying Fullerton there to give 32 lb. and a year ?
—2 St. 4 lb.

He won there ? — Giesshubler won all the way in a canter.

The next ? — The next was on May 31st, across the flat, a mile
and three-quarters. Giesshubler carried 7 st. 8 lb., Kinfauns
carried 7 st. 6 lb., Hambletonian carried 9 st. 1 lb., and Fuller-
ton carried 9 st. 1 lb. Hambletonian won in a canter really.
He did not actually pass the post, but he did win in a canter.
Giesshubler actually finished in front, and it again made out
Fullerton to be about 5 lb. or 6 lb. better than Giesshubler.

I gather from your observation that it does not follow that the
horse that comes first in at the trial is the best ? — In this in-
stance the General said he did not wish his horse Hambletonian
to win the trial. If it ran he did not wish it to finish on account
of the touts.

I gather from that, that those who are riding in a race,
especially the jockey, may very well be able to judge which is
the best horse in the trial, although that horse may not for one
reason or another be allowed to finish ? — If he rides it himself.

Or even if he rides alongside it and knows the man who is
riding it ? — That would be more difficult.

Now, the next trial ? — The next trial was July 9th across the
flat again, a mile and a quarter. It was very hard going.
Spread Eagle carried 7 st. 12 lb., Howard rode it ; Fullerton
9 st. 5 lb.. Grimes ; Plantagenet 8 st. 7 lb.. Wood. Spread
Eagle won anyhow again, beat Fullerton a very long distance.

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and Plantagenet could not go at all on account of the very liard
ground. I have made a remark about the trial, ' Very hard ;
Plantagenet could not go at all, and FuUerton tired.'

Then up to this time you have tried him at a mile, and a mile
and a quarter ? — I tried him at a mile, and a mile and a quarter.
I was present at all these trials, but on the 24th July at this
Stewards' Cup trial I was not there — six furlongs.

This one you are now mentioning ? — Yes, the one I am going
to mention, the 24th July, six furlongs of T.Y.C., Monsieur de
Paris, 5 st. 9 lb., first. He of course was put in with a light
weight to make the running, and won the trial. Hambletonian,
8 st. 6 lb., second, Wood rode ; Gordon, 8 st. 5 lb., third ;
Kingwood, 9 st. 7 lb.. Grimes, fourth ; and Fullerton, 7 st. 7 lb.,
Howard, last. Monsieur de Paris won anyhow, with a stone in
hand, which he would do with 5 st. 9 lb. on. Hambletonian
was second, and gave Gordon a 10 lb. beating; Kingwood
finished a neck behind Gordon, and Fullerton was last all the
way. I re-handicapped them, except Monsieur de Paris, that
was put in to win the trial ; Hambletonian, 8 st. 6 lb. ; Gor-
don, 7 st. 9 lb. ; he was not in very good form ; then Kingwood,
8 St. 9 lb., and Fullerton, 6 st. 7 lb.

That is not a fresh trial at those weights ? — No, my handicap
of this trial.

I observe you say Monsieur de Paris was put in to win the
trial ? — Yes, he was an old horse.

We have heard it said a trial is worth nothing unless your
horse wins the trial ? — Not when you put a good horse in to win
the trial like this.

That does not meet with general acceptance ? — You could
not expect these horses to beat Monsieur de Paris at this
weight.

I thought you were supposed not to get the real measure of
your horse until you got it to wdn a trial.

Mr. LowTHER : That scarcely follows, does it ?

Sir CHA.ELES EussELL : Would putting a horse like Mon-
sieur de Paris, an old horse with a light weight, give you any
line at all for Fullerton ?— Not as far as Fullerton and he were
concerned, but I forgot to tell you that all these other horses
were in the Stewards' Cup, and were tried. Hambletonian, Gor-
don, Kingwood, and Fullerton were all tried at the weights.

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According to the trial, Hambletonian bad the best chance,
Gordon next, Kingwood next, and Fullerton next ? — Yes.

In reference to that race for which this trial came off, accord-
ing to that trial he had no ghost of a chance at all ?— He had no
chance of beating Hambletonian, none at all.

Did you consider he had any chance whatever of winning the
Stewards' Cup ? — No, I do not think he had.

Why did you send Fullerton to run in the Stewards' Cup ? —
Because I had given orders for him to run before the trial.

Why could you not countermand them ? — I do not think I
had time even. We tried on the 24th July.

And the race is on the 27th ? — We tried on the Saturday
and of course the horses were sent to Goodwood on the Monday
morning.

There was lots of time ? — I did not hear about it until Mon-
day morning. I had a telegram giving an outline of the trial.
They did not put the particulars, and on Monday morning I
should get a letter saying what had happened.

Did I gather, from the statement you made of the horses and
riders at these trials, that on two occasions Howard ran Fuller-
ton ? — Howard rode Fullerton in the Cup trial, and he rode
Spread Eagle in the trial before that, when it won. I do not
remember any other time that he rode. I see his name is down
only on those two occasions.

Lord Maech : W^ho were present at that trial besides the
touts ? — Sherrard, I do not know who else.

Sir Chaeles Eussell : You backed Hambletonian in the
race principally ?— I backed Hambletonian for 144/., or something
like that.

Who is Howard ? — Howard is a stable lad in Sherrard's
stable.

So that you had running from the stable in that race Brighton,
Hambletonian, and Fullerton ? — They were running those three
horses, and I backed a lot of other horses in the Stewards' Cup
besides Hambletonian, including Fullerton.

What were the others you backed? — I backed Mellifont,
Cardinal Wolsey, Melton, Present Times, Master Jones, and
Fullerton.

Was not that a lot against the field ? — Yes, exactly. I backed
Melhfont, Cardinal Wolsey, Melton, and Present Times, taking

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2i to 2, and I then took 250 to 20 Master Jones, 200 to 20
Hambletonian, 1,000 to 20 Fullerton (R. Lee), 400 to 50
Hambletonian, 400 to 50 Hambletonian, 375 to 50 Hamble-
tonian, 160 to 20 Hambletonian, and 230 to 45 Hambletonian ;
so that I had 144Z. on Hambletonian.

In other words you lost above 400/. in the race, on which 20Z.
was backed on Fullerton? — Yes, I backed him to win more
than that, I had 144/. on Hambletonian.

Who employed the jockey to ride Fullerton in that race ? —
I did — Howard.

You probably yourself did not give any directions about the
race, you left that to your trainer ? — Yes, I do not think he
would give any directions except to jump off, that is all. You
would not tell a little boy to do anything else, you would not
give any particular directions in a race of that sort.

Did you ever happen to ask Sherrard what directions he did
give ? — Yes. He told me he told the boy to get off and do the
best he could.

Did you ask Howard himself anything about it ? — No, I did
not ask him after the race about the horse.

I will ask you as to that in a moment. When this action was
coming on did you bring Howard up to town ? — I had nothing to
do with Wood's action.

You were naturally interested in it ? — Yes, I was, but nothing
to do with the management of it in any sort of way. I brought
nobody.

Did Fullerton show in the race ? — Not in the Stewards' Cup,
he did not.

That race, the Stewards' Cup, I think is only six furlongs ?
—Yes.

He did not show at all in that race ? — No, I saw him myself
on the other side of the course, running very badly.

I think you said his best distance was a mile ? — Yes, as a
four-year-old.

And as a three-year-old ? — He was only trained for five fur-
longs as a three-year-old.

You tried him over a mile and a mile and a quarter ? — I did,
and I gave it up as a bad job. I directed he should be only trained
for a short course.

Mr. LowTHER : I understand the T.Y.C. at Goodwood is a,
measured six furlongs.

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Sir Chaeles Eussell : I thiiik generally the other T.Y.C.'s
are six furlongs.

Mr. LowTHER : They vary ; the one at Newmarket is less.
Many of them are given in the ' Calendar.' This, I think, is six
exactly.

Sir Chaeles Eussell : He was carrying 7 st. 2 lb. in that
race ? — Yes.

Will you turn to the next race, that is the Craven Course,
what distance is that ? — That is a mile and a quarter. He had
run badly in the first race, carrying 7 st. 2 lb. He has in this
race 6 st. 10 lb.

Why did you run him in this mile and a quarter race ? — He
was entered in the race, and I wanted to see what he could do in
a mile and a quarter. I said, *He has run very horribly, shall I
run him in the Chesterfield Cup ? ' Sherrard said, 'You can do
as you please ; I will have him up to run.'

Did you fancy him for the Chesterfield Cup ? — No. I backed
the second for 12 sovereigns, because I knew he had a stone in
hand of Fullerton, according to the Stewards' Cup running.

Why were you anxious to back him a second time ? — I gave
1,500?. for the horse, and I did not want him to win without having
something on.

You thought he had not the ghost of a chance ? — They win
sometimes when you think they have not a ghost of a chance.
I had 121. on How's That, who I thought was likely to beat
him.

Y^our stakes upon the. other races were Theodore 50/. ? — Y"es.

And 1,000 to 20 about Fullerton ?— Yes.

You said, I believe, and correctly said, that you trusted your
own eyes in a race beyond anybody else's ? — Yes.

You are a good judge of racing ? — A fair judge.

I do want to ask you particularly about this second race.
How did Fullerton run ? — He ran very well.

Melton was rumiing in that race? — Yes, he was, but he
carried 10 st. 61b. — a fearful w^eight.

Did you hear from anyone, or were you aware, that Archer,
who was riding Melton, complained that Fullerton, by running
out at the bend, had taken Melton out with him, and had destroyed
his chance ? — No, I never heard one single word about it till
now.

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Who rode the winner in the Chesterfield Cup ? — Wood. Wood
rode Saraband.

I think there was no other horse of your stable in that race
except Fullerton ? — No, I think not.

Sir Henry James : Wood could not ride Fullerton ?

Sir Chaeles Russell : Oh, no.

What was your opinion of Fullerton after that race? — I
thought he had run very well in the race ; so much so that I
thought he could have been third in the race, and I went and
blew the boy up the moment he came in.

What did he say ? — He said he tired. I was very angry with
him.

Why ? — Because I thought he had not ridden liim out, and
could have been third.

Was there any place betting upon him ? — No, but you expect
a little boy to ride a horse right out, and see what he can do.
I went to him directly after the race and said, * Why the devil
did not you ride the horse out ? '

Won by a length I think the record is ? — Won easily by a
length and a half, four lengths between second and third, and
Lisbon and Fullerton finished together.

Is that your opinion ? — I know it. It is returned so by
McCall ; but I saw it myself.

Why did you wish the boy to ride Fullerton out because he
could not win ? — I do not know. I thought it was much better
he should.

To give the public and the handicapper a better appreciation ?
— No, Howard is not a good finisher. He did the same thing before
on a horse of mine, and he was beaten by a short head, Pampas
Grass. I thought he should have done it then. I said, ' Why on
earth did you not ride him out ? ' and he said the horse tired with
him.

Might I ask about the Chesterfield Cup ? On the occasion of
this race did you give any orders or leave it to Sherrard ? — ^No, I
came too late. I was at luncheon on the lawn, and I ran through
the enclosure and got into the Birdcage, where the horses are,
and I found they had then gone out, and I met Sherrard at the
end of the paddock. The horses had all gone down to the post.

Mr. Lowther : There is one thing that requires clearing up
that arose yesterday. It is with regard to the notice of the

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Stewards witli respect to jockeys betting. There was some little
confusion as to the dates when the respective notices were issued.
I find, and I wish you to correct this for yourselves, that the
notice prohibiting jockeys betting largely, I am told, first appeared
in December 1883. The amended notice omitting the word
* largely,' and in other respects varying the text, but substantially
only altering it in that respect, and maldng it a prohibition
against all betting, did not appear until December 1887 ; con-
sequently Sir George Chetw^md's bets on behalf of Wood in
comparatively small sums were all while the first notice was in
operation. That was not made quite clear last night.

The Witness : I should like also to mention that after I had
asked Mr. Lowther about my betting for Wood at the end of 1887,
he told me of the second notice, and from that moment I have
never had a bet for any jockey.

Mr. LowTHEE : The second notice was not published until
December 1887.

The Witness : I did not know until you told me about the
second notice.

Sir Chakles Eussell : We had got to the end of the running
of FuUerton, I think, in 1886. With regard to the running in
1887 there is no suggestion, as far as it rested with you, that you
did not mean the horse should win, and no doubt you backed
him ; but I do wish to ask about the peculiarity of the horse's
running for the purpose of seeing whether you made any inquiry,
or whether your attention was excited at all. In the Lincoln
Handicap, Fullerton carried 7 st. 10 lb. ? — Yes.

The Lincoln Handicap is generally a large field — did he come
to 4 to 1 ? — Yes, I think so ; about a week before the race, or
perhaps ten days before the race, and after a trial.

Did he finally start at 10 to 1 offered ? — Yes, finally he
started at 10 to 1, but I do not know whether it was offered. I
did not inquire about his price at the moment, because I had
done my betting.

Was there anything that you knew of to account for his going
back in the betting ? — No, excepting that I had no great amount
of confidence in his winning. I mean I did not think he was
sure to win, although I told my friends I thought he had a fair
chance, and I told them of the trial.
. Do you not know that the bookmakers refused to hedge at

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any price ? — No, I do not know tliat, because one bookmaker
hedged for me the day before the race.

I am talking of the day of the race ? — No, I do not know
anything at all about the betting.

You said something, I think, about the horse having had a
chill ? — Yes, he had a chill ten days or a fortnight before the
race. He had been out a very cold morning, and caught a slight
chill ; in fact he was what is called ' set fast.'

Was it mentioned in the training reports that he had not
done his gallop ? — Yes, certainly, that he only walked upon the
Sunday morning.

He ran badly in the race ? — Well, he ran unluckily, I think ;
I do not think he ran badly. He appeared to be hopelessly
beaten half a mile from home, and then began rapidly to make
■up his ground.

You attributed that to his not being able to get through the
new ground, as you call it ? — Yes.

The other horses had to do the same ? — Some horses will go
in deep ground, others will not.

Where do you say he finished ? — I thought he was going to
be third, but Wood eased him before he passed the post. He
actually finished seventh according to McCall.

I must ask you this : Did you not see what I might call
ominous comments in the press about the market status of Ful-
lerton ? — No, I did not.

Did you see, for instance, this comment in the Sportsman :
* The effort to keep Fullerton in his place for the Lincolnshire
Handicap was indeed weak. Early on it seemed as if Sir George
Chetwynd's colt would return to favour when we saw 9 to 1 and
100 to 12 booked ; but subsequently the layers were masters of
the situation, for after 9 to 1 was offered to money, he left off
friendless at a point more. It would only be misleading to say
that anything noteworthy occurred on the future this afternoon.
•20Z., however, went on Isobar at 10 to 1 for the Lincolnshire
Handicap, and he was unquestionably in better request than
Pullerton, against whom 10 to 1 was shouted in every direction ? '
— I do not call that anything wonderful, because I can quite
miderstand it from my not having any great confidence in the
horse. I could not go to my friends and say, * I think this horse
is sure to win, and I think you had better have your 50^. on it.'

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All I said was, ' I rely upon the horse as being extremely fit to
win the race, and I rely upon his being 181b. better than Giess-
hubler.'

Then here, again, is another comment in the Sporting Life :
" Betting on the Lincolnshire Handicap this afternoon has been
confirmatory of the views already expressed in these columns.
I am afraid that the Fullerton case is serious, although it is
satisfactory to know that the horse was ridden a mile gallop to-
day on the Cambridgeshire Hill by C. Wood.'

Sir Heney James : ' Case ' there means condition, I sup-
pose ? — That was after he had been set fast.

Sir Charles Eussell : The paragraph proceeds : ' Fulmen
continued to increase in favouritism for the Lincolnshire Handi-
cap, the opening quotation of 6 to 1 being ultimately reduced by
half a point. This reduction of the odds offered on the field was
to some extent traceable to the unsteadiness of Fullerton, who
was once more under suspicion, and closed at 10 to 1 " offered,"
after 100 to 9 had been a few times laid.' Then, again, the day
after the race, there is this comment in the Sportsman, of March
24th: 'The market changes of the afternoon w^ere important, and
to the dismay of Fullerton's many backers he went very badly
indeed in the Eing, although he finished up at 10 to 1. For that
unexpected dechne I am quite unable to account, as the horse
was stated, by those who must have been properly informed, to
be perfectly well and very likely to win. Moreover, when
brought on to the course and despatched to the starting post,
his appearance and the style in which he moved gave great
satisfaction. Fullerton's display — to my eyes he never looked
dangerous — was undoubtedly a source of vast chagrin to many ;
but, although disappointed at his failure, I shall not on that
account desert him.' Then the race is given, and I want to see
how far this agrees with your own recollection for the purpose of
contrasting it with his subsequent running : ' After three failures
the flag fell to a fair start, and, as soon as they had settled down,
Castor, on the outside, took a length lead of Middlethorpe, and
Fulmen on the other. They were immediately followed by Braw
Lass, Cintra and Despair well up, with whom was Pizarro for
about a furlong, when he lost his place. On the right. Isobar
and Corunna separated Middlethorpe and Fulmen from King
Monmouth and Fullerton. In the middle, fairly prominent berths

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were held by Distinion, Tib, and Dalmeny ; and on the far side
Oberon and Renny were just in the wake of Castor and Braw
Lass. With the pace as usual, a cracker from the commence-
ment, the earliest vacancies in the leading division were created
by the disappearance of Braw Lass and Cintra, of whom the
former joined Fast and Loose in the rear before half the journey
had been completed. A little further on Fulmen began to hang
out signals of distress, and, as they approached the new ground,
the first rank, in the order named, consisted of Castor, Middle-
thorpe, Despair, Oberon, and Isobar. A distinct gap separated
these from King Monmouth, Renny, Fullerton, and St. George^
of whom the top weight was gradually fencing from the right to
the left, whereby he parted company from Fullerton. As they
reached the junction with the old course, both Castor and
Middlethorpe shot their bolts, and left Despair in command from
Oberon, the pair being clear of Isobar, while one by one the two
original leaders resigned to King Monmouth, Fullerton, Renny,
Pizarro, and St. George. For a few strides below the distance
Fullerton looked threatening, but he died out again almost
directly, and Oberon having passed Despair, he remained in front
to the end.' That a little conflicts with your recollection of the
race, because I understand you to say you thought towards the
finish he seemed to come again ? — I saw him coming again, but
it was too late.

Then the article goes on : ' With the collapse of Mr. Gilbert's
horse. Isobar made an ineffectual challenge on the right, and at
the same time Renny and Pizarro made expiring efforts on the
left in company with King Monmouth. The tide was not to be
turned, however, and, although Renny passed Isobar close to
the post to beat him by a length for second place, Oberon won
twice as far, with Pizarro a good fourth, the easing up King
Monmouth fifth, St. George sixth, Fullerton seventh. Despair
eighth, Fulmen ninth, and Middlethorpe tenth ; the others were
headed by Stourhead, with Braw Lass and Fast and Loose
beaten off.' The actual race was won by Oberon by two lengths,
d. length between second and third ? — Yes.

Then there is this note in the SjJortsman : * Usually the
early proceedings on the day of a big race are characterised by
something noteworthy. This morning, however, this was not
the case on the event, though, as certain people with covering

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commissions began to execute their business, matters underwent
a change. For a time Fulmen firmly held his place at the head
of aifairs, but FuUerton could never keep his position, and,
although 10 to 1 was again taken at the close, 100 to 8 had been
laid previously, and by those who, one would suppose, were
pretty well informed.' Then, again, upon the same day, there
is this note in the Sporting Life : ' Then, too, Fulmen and
Fullerton, whom I have discarded in the face of the market,
failed to get in the first half-dozen, and Sir George Chetwynd's
colt finished absolutely last, after all the money for which he had
been backed, Braw Lass keeping him company. These are
matters, however, upon which I do not care to dwell. Suffice it
to say, that in leaving Fulmen and Fullerton, results have
proved that I was not far wrong. Long before this a note of
warning had been sounded to the backers of Fullerton, as from
all parts of the Ring offers to bet against Sir George Chetwynd's
colt were plentiful. Stage by stage he dropped back from the
front rank in the quotations until at the fall of the flag 10 to 1
was freely tendered against him.' Admitting as I have, and I
am glad to be able to do so, that you had backed your horse and
wished it to win, does not that point to grave suspicion of some-
thing wrong about the horse ? — Not necessarily. I saw the horse
was at 10 to 1. I telegraphed to Robert Lee to lay against the
horse, and he telegraphed back saying he was enabled to lay
600/. to lOOZ. for me, and he would not keep it to himself because
there was nothing secret about it, and he would tell people 'I
have laid Sir George 600Z. to lOOZ. as a hedging bet,' and book-
makers would say, * Sir George would not want to hedge his
money if he thought the horse was sure to win.' It is wonderful
how small a thing will make a horse go back in price. That is
the way I account for it, and I can account for it in no other way.
Does it really seem to you satisfactory ? Is it not considered
perfectly legitimate, especially when you are known to have
backed a horse for a considerable stake, to hedge a portion of
it ? — Yes, no doubt ; but I did not show such extreme confidence
to my friends about his chance of winning.

His next appearance in public was at the Newmarket Craven
meeting on the 20th April, 1887?— Yes.

Had you intended to run Fullerton ? — I had written to Sher-
rard to have him ready, in case we ran him ; but since the Lincoln

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Handicap lie had been tried and beaten once ; that is to say,
between the Lincoha Handicap and this race.

As you refer to that, you may as well refer to the trial. I
i;vould not have pursued it but for your mentioning it, and I
think it best to have the whole thing out. — On March 28th, one
mile, Giesshubler, carrying 7 st. 4 lb., was first ; Bard of Erin,
carrying 7 St. 121b., second; Plantagenet, 9 st. 71b., ridden by
Wood, third ; Portnellan, 8 st. 7 lb., fourth ; FuUerton, 9 st. 7 lb.,
ridden by Grimes, was fifth and last. Giesshubler won by four
lengths, three lengths between second and third, then came
Portnellan, and FuUerton was behind them all.

As you have introduced that trial, let me ask you whether
you had tried him before the Lincoln Handicap ? — Yes, with
Giesshubler.

Did he win the trial ? — He was about a dead heat with Giess-
hubler at 18 lb. Indeed, I think he could have won a head.
They were the same animals at 181b., they told me, because I
-was not present.

From this trial of the 28th March, he would be very bad ? —
He had a good big weight in the trial.

The same weight as Plantagenet? — He could have given
Plantagenet weight, of course. However, he is very bad upon
that trial, certainly.

Giesshubler won easily by four lengths, three lengths be-
tween second and third, Portnellan fourth, FuUerton last ; that
was very bad indeed, was it not ? — Yes, not as far as Giesshubler
was concerned, but as far as the other horses were concerned,
very bad.

You did resolve to run him when you got to Newmarket ? — I
did not want to run him, but Sherrard persuaded me to run him.
He said : ' The horse is very well, why not run him and let him
take his chance ? '

Do you say you did not think he had a good chance ? — I
thought I might lose my money if I backed him after this trial.
I did not think he would win the race.

Did not you bring him out to win this race, because you had
lost heavUy upon Plantagenet at Kempton ? — No, I did not.

You had, as a matter of fact, lost heavily upon Plantagenet
at Kempton ?— Yes, I had lost 800/. or 900Z., I think, upon
Plantagenet.

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I think you had a bad race upon some other horses there ;
you had a bad week at Kempton ? — I do not think I lost much
more ; it might have been 1001. more.

I am suggesting to you, and I must do it, that you did
bring out Fullerton upon this occasion as a kind of retriever ?
• — No, not the least in the world, I give you my word of honour.

In the face of this very bad trial, tell us what money you had
upon him ?— I think 250^.

Is it not correct that you backed him to win 1,400Z ? — Yes,
because he was at that price.

And Wood stood to win 551., did he not ? — Yes, 551. to lOr.
"Wood had.

He was not ridden in that race by Wood, in whose riding you
liad great confidence ? — No, he could not ride the weight.

Then FuUerton's next appearance is in the Babraham Plate,
the next day. There he was running against the winner of- the
Lincoln Handicap ? — Yes.

With a difference of 7 lb. in FuUerton's favour as compared
with the weights in the Lincoln Handicap ? — Yes, which proved
that he had no chance of winning the Lincoln Handicap.

You must not ask me to accept that. — But I want to
prove it. •

I cannot say that my assent goes with that statement. You
say that according to the running in the Lincoln Handicap the
7 lb. would have brought Oberon and Fullerton together ? —
Wood told me that the horse was going so fast at the finish.

But I have read a report which shows he died away. — Wood
told me, when he found it was impossible to win, though he was
going so fast, it was too late, and he stopped the horse.

Upon the running, as one reads it, and apart from the infor-
mation which your jockey gave you as to his impressions of the
race, 7 lb. would not bring Fullerton and Oberon together ? — No,
not to anyone who did not know what I did.

In this case you backed both Oberon and Fullerton ? — Yes.

You had llOZ. to SOI. about Oberon ?— Yes.

And 1001. to 501. Fullerton ?— Yes, and 350/. to 200/. from
A. Jacobs.

Sir Heney James : How much did you back Fullerton for
altogether ? — I backed Fullerton in this race for 240/., and I had
80/. on Oberon.

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Fullerton had been very badly beaten in his trial for a fnile
(Dn the 28th of March, after the Lincoln running ? — Yes.

Mr. LowTHEE : I do not quite gather the relative weights of
the two trials.

Sir Chables Eussell : The weights of the trial on the 28th
March were Giesshubler 7 st. 4 lb., first ; Bard of Erin 7 st. 12 lb.,
second; Plantagenet 9 st. 7 lb., third ; Portnellan 8 st. 7 lb., fourth ;
Fullerton 9 st. 7 lb., fifth. Giesshubler won easily by four lengths,
three lengths between second and third, and Portnellan fourth.

Have you a note in your trial book : ' Fullerton lost, in con-
sequence of which I did not accept with him for the City and
Suburban ' ?

Mr. LowTHEE : That would not seem to afford much infor-
mation ?

The Witness : No, it gave me no idea.

Sir Chakles Russell: If at 181b. you thought the trial good
enough to put a lot of money on the Lincoln Handicap, I do not
understand the object of trying the horse on the 28th March at a
difference of 31 lb. ? — I meant Giesshubler to win the trial.

To deceive the touts, you mean ? — Yes.

In other words, for the purposes of the trial, we may strike
out Giesshubler ? — Yes, you may do that, certainly.

What was the trial horse there ? — All the other horses, but
Plantagenet chiefly.

You were trying him with even weights with Plantagenet ? —
Yes.

And Plantagenet beat him by what ? — I do not know. I
have written here against the trial, ' all wrong,' and it was in
consequence of that trial that I did not accept for the City and
Suburban, where he had a Hght weight on.

I am more and more puzzled and fogged about this, but no
doubt it is my fault. You say you wrote against the trial, ' trial
all wrong ' ? — Yes, but that was a long while afterwards, of
course. I do not give that trial for gospel, because I know it
was aU wrong.

When did you put this comment in, ' trial all wrong ' ? — •
During the season — during my trials.

After he won the Crawfurd Plate ? — Yes, distinctly after-
wards.

That is to say, looking back upon the trial, you saw that

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subsequent events showed it was all WTong? — The running of
the horses showed it w^as all wrong.

Was Fullerton a horse that you could rely upon in his trials
at all, or did he run much better in public, so that his trials
were unreliable ? — No, I think he used to run fairly well in his
trials. He had not a good jockey upon him in this trial. Grimes
is not to be compared to a good jockey, and with the exception
of him they were all jockeys.

Notwithstanding this bad trial which you have now told
us about, you backed the horse to win you in that race 1,400^ ?
— Yes, I had the Lincoln Handicap running to go upon.

In the Sportsman of the 13th April, which would be the
day after the race, did you see these comments : * This was a
wide contrast to what had been in previous years, but few as were
the runners, many backers failed to spot the winner, the running
of Fullerton in the Lincolnshire Handicap having effectually
stalled off many who, up to that time, had regarded him as the
almost certain winner of a good handicap. How much he was
fancied in some quarters yesterday the betting at the finish
sufficiently showed, and that faith in him was well founded the
son of Touchet told a long way from home when he came oat
with the race in hand. His jockey rode him in a style that
showed he did not mean to be caught napping. The silence as
Fullerton passed the winning-post told a tale as to how many of
his Lincoln backers had now deserted him, and time must bo left
to show whether the six-furlong course traversed yesterday was
more to his liking than the Carholme Mile.' Then as regards
the betting : ' To begin with, Mephisto and Fulmen were nearest
to him in the quotations, but each gave way in turn to Sir
George Chetwynd's Lincoln failure, Fullerton, who left off a very
firm article at 5 to 1. Of Fulmen it w^as said that he had been
satisfactorily tested for speed since his visit to the Carholme,
and if no longer sound in his wind, there were hopes that Volta
would recall his promise in this week last year. But all ideas of
improvement were knocked on the head by Fullerton, who went
away from his opponents directly the flag had fallen, and gave
them no quarter in any part of the journey. This was, in fact, a
much better display than at Lincoln, when he was so roughly
handled in the market on the morning of the race. He certainly
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same age was giving him 21 lb., could have finished second.' —
Doubloon was second best, and Cannon, who rode him — and I
often ask him what he thinks about the result of races, because
his opinion his good — told me that a stone would have turned it.

Then comes the Babraham Plate the next day. How much
did you win up that day? — 350Z. I really only won 2501.,
because I gave Warne 100^. for riding the two races.

You backed him to win 350Z. ? — Yes, and according to this
race he could not have won the Lincoln Handicap.

Let me again refer to the paper that you do read — the
Sidortsman. — I prefer to give my opinion against the S^ports-
man's.

I put it to you whether these comments ought not to have
suggested to you the necessity of making some inquiry : * Like the
companion race on the previous day, the Babraham Plate at-
tracted but a wretched field in point of numbers, only five going to
the post. Of these Oberon and Fullerton alone attracted much
attention in the Birdcage, and that Mr. Manton's colt had not
looked behind him since the Lincoln week was the general im-
pression. Fullerton, on the other hand, scarcely looked so bright
as on Tuesday afternoon, but that any horse should seem a little
dull in such bitter weather as that of yesterday is not surprising.
Between the pair the betting was at one time very close, but
Oberon left off the better favourite. Repeating the tactics of the
previous day, Fullerton was in front from the outset, but met a
much more formidable foe in Mr. Manton's colt than in anything
he then encountered. For a few strides, indeed, it seemed as if
victory would go to the scarlet jacket — that Oberon would run
the longer when the pinch came being the general belief. Li a
severe struggle, however, Fullerton held his own, and won by
three parts of a length, the contest being the most interesting
seen up to this time during the week. That the terms on which
the pair met were considerably more favourable to Sir George
Chetwynd's colt than at Lincoln is true, but judges who had seen
the pair run there generally gave preference to Oberon.' — •
Oberon is a thief.

Was not it a severe finish between the two, and did not
Fullerton win by staying the better ? — I think Oberon ought to
have won.
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Tvhich Bendigo, as we know, won, carrying 9 st. 71b., and Fullerton.
carrying 8 st.? — Yes.

You backed Fullerton here, did you not — altogether, I think,
put on 200Z. ?— Yes.

The length of that Jubilee Stakes course at Kempton is what ?
— A mile.

Is it important to get your horse well off to be well placed in
the bend ? — No, it is not important.

Why ? — Archer and Fordham both told me, in discussing this
course, that if a man makes the running to get round the bend
first, something always catches them, and they preferred to wait
and take their chance of getting through. That opmion was the
result of races they had ridden in.

Do you think at Kempton that a horse not well placed at the
turn wins races frequently there ? — I have seen lots of horses
shut in.

Horses not well placed at the turn ? — Yes.

Did you not give instructions to Wood upon this occasion ?
— I began by giving orders to Wood upon this occasion directly I
got upon the course.

Did you not give him orders to get off well in front and
have a good place at the turn ? — I suggested those orders to
him.

A master does not suggest orders ; a master gives his ser-
vant orders. — I went to Wood, and said, * I know nothing about
Fullerton ; but apparently he ran very gamely against Oberon
in the Babraham Plate, and therefore I think, considering the
quantity of weight Bendigo has got to give Fullerton, it would
be as well to get off and lie in a good place ' ; but Wood's
answer was, * I would much rather wait, as I think speed is
his best point ' ; and I said, * You ought to know more than I
do ; ride him as you like.'

Did you not tell your friends that you had given Wood
orders to jump off, and to take a good place at the bend ? —
No, I did not.

As a matter of fact, had Wood a good place at the bend ? —
No, he had not.

Bendigo was just inside? — Fullerton was on his left and
Bendigo inside just before they got to the bend.

As the race was run your original suggestion as to orders

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was not complied with? — My suggestion was not complied
with.

You deferred to the opinion of Wood about it ? — Yes, I did.

You thought that 8st., receiving 21 lb. from the top weight,,
the horse ought to make use of his lighter weight, and you
thought he ran like a stayer against Oberon ? — Yes.

Was speed the principal quality of Bendigo? — He showed
great speed in that race.

And carrying the top weight it would be his tactics to wait
rather ?-r-Yes.

What do you think now of your suggested orders against
Wood's tactics ? — I think mine would have been the best.

Fullerton was fourth, I believe ? — Yes ; he came up with a
wet sail.

Just beaten for third place ? — Yes ; Watts told me that
there were two horses in front of Fullerton and Bendigo, and
they crossed in front of Fullerton, and Bendigo got inside.

Was there any trial before the Manchester Cup ? — Yes.
We tried the distance with Fullerton, Stanislas, Stetch worth ,
and Plantagenet over a mile and a half at Newmarket.

Stanislas was first, carrying 6st. 101b., Fullerton second,
9 St., Stetchworth third, 8 st., and Plantagenet fourth, 8 st. 81b.?'
—Yes.

You notice that in the trial in March you ran Plantagenet
and Fullerton at even weights, 9 st. 71b., over a mile, and Plan-
tagenet beat Fullerton out of place ? — Yes.

In this trial, although Plantagenet had beaten him at even
weights over a mile and a half, you make Fullerton give Plan-
tagenet 6 lb., and he beats Plantagenet out of place ? — Yes ; he
could not go at all in that trial.

Not that day ? — No, not at all.

Read your comments upon that trial. * Stanislas made all
the running and won easily, three-quarters of a length ; Fuller-
ton beat Stetchworth, who ran well for a mile and a quarter at
the finish, eight lengths, and he was a length in front of
Plantagenet, who was out of form.'

Is there not a note there about Fullerton not staying ? —
Yes. * Fullerton cannot stay dis.,' that means ' distance.'

That was a mile and a half? The Manchester Cup is a.,
mile and three-quarters ? — Yes. .

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Was this the only trial for the Manchester Cup ? — That note,
* Cannot stay dis.,' was written after the Manchester Cup.

In the Lincoln Handicap, King Monmouth was giving him
less weight than he was giving him in the Manchester Cup ? —
No, more weight.

You are right ; in other words, you were meeting King Mon-
mouth, who finished a considerable way in front of you in the
Lincoln Handicap, on 12 lb. worse terms ? — Yes ; but I knew
Fullerton could have beaten King Monmouth in the Lincoln
Handicap easily.

You backed Fullerton for the Manchester Cup for a good
deal of money ? — Yes.

To win you how much — 10,000Z. ? — Yes, but not for myself ;
there was some money for others.

Wood had 501. on, had he not ? — I do not know ; but I think
he had. Yes, it is right ; he had 501. on at 9 to 1.

You said yesterday that Fullerton's best distance was a mile ?
— My opinion is so.

Eecollecting that his best distance is a mile, and recollecting
you are meeting a good class of horse like King Monmouth at
12 lb. worse terms than at Lincoln, had you any justification
for backing Fullerton over a mile and three-quarters, excepting
upon what Wood told you ? — And this trial.

But that trial was won by a horse which you describe as a
very bad one ? — Yes, because I found it out afterwards. That
horse deceived me, and made me lose this money on the Man-
chester Cup.

You told us that you recollected that the heavy ground at
Lincoln jeopardised Fullerton's chance ? — Yes.

Was not the ground very heavy going at Manchester ? — No,
it was beautiful going at Manchester upon the Cup day —
perfect going. It did not rain till the night after the Man-
chester Cup.

Is it not nearly always heavy-going at Manchester ? — No,
not in the summer, and this was the summer meeting.

Sir Heney James: What age was Stanislas? — Four years
old.

And Fullerton 4 years ? — Yes.

Fullerton was giving 2 st. 4 lb. ? — Yes.

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Wilton Plate, where lie was carrying 9st. 51b., receiving 21b.
from King Monmouth? — Yes.

So that I think the result would be that King Monmouth
was meeting Fullerton on 14 lb. better terms ? — On 21b. better
terms than in the Manchester Cup.

And 14 lb. better terms than at Lincoln ? — Yes.

And the distance a mile ? — Yes.

That is King Monmouth's best distance, is it not ? — No, I
should think not. I should say a mile and a half is his best
distance. I have seen him win a big race over a mile and three-
quarters.

Sir Heney James : A mile was the best distance for Fullerton,
was it not ? — Yes.

Sir Chaeles Eussell: Was the going heavy in the
Wilton Plate ? — Yes, dreadfully heavy.

There was no betting, I suppose, till the morning of the
race ? — No, I should think not.

The heavy ground did not prevent your backing him ? — No ;
but it ought to have done.

Do you suggest that Fullerton objects to heavy ground more
than any other horse ordinarily does ? — Most certainly I suggest
it ; I am positive of it.

How much had you on Fullerton in the Wilton Plate ? —
1,010/.

Again I ask you. Was there anything in the running of
Fullerton to justify your expenditure upon him, apart from what
you were informed? — In the Manchester Cup he had beaten
King Monmouth. I always go by the running just before, and
therefore I expected him to beat him again. Fullerton was
fourth, and King Monmouth was eighth in the Manchester
Cup.

Then Fullerton ran in the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood,
carrying 8 st. 13 lb., won by Upset, and he started second
favourite, from which I judge you backed him ? — Yes, I backed
him — I took 2,500Z. to 175/. He ran slow ; he was sixth in the
race.

Then I think the next race was the Autumn Handicap ?-^
No ; the Glen Plate, at Leicester.

In the Glen Plate you backed him for 200/., and he lost ? — •
Yes.

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He was first favourite? — Yes. He was third best in tlie
race, but had no chance of beating the second, as he was meeting
him on several pounds worse terms than before.

Then he runs in the Trial Plate at Newmarket, won by
Hada ?— Yes.

Eada was not thought much of at that time, I think ? — I
thought a good deal of her, and I sent to buy her before the
race.

Did you back her ? — No, I backed Fullerton.

What were you willing to give for her ? — 800/. ; I heard she
was for sale for 8001,

It is fair to say, in passing, that this is a race very frequently
won by two-year-olds ?— Yes, I think it is. I think Fullerton
ran a good horse in that race.

The Autumn Handicap is the next I wish to ask you about.
In your judgment, as a racing man of experience, was Fullerton
ever in the race at all ? — Yes ; but going at the top of his speed
he looked as if he would never catch the light weights ; he was
going always in one place, about two lengths from the actual
leading horse.

Did he — I think it is an expression sometimes used — at any
moment in the race seem to you to flatter his backers ? — Yes, I
thought he was going to win at one time, about 100 yards from
home, or perhaps a little less.

That would be after rising out of the Abingdon Dip ? — I
should say just out of the Dip.

You thought at that moment he was going to win ? — I hoped
he was going to catch these two light weights.

And you had on Fullerton how much ? — I had 500Z. to 250Z.,
and 200/. to 80/.

So that you stood to win 700/. ? — 650/. on Fullerton.

Is it the fact that while on some of the races Wood had a
bet, at Lincoln and Manchester he had no bet upon this race,
no bet upon the Jubilee Stakes, and no bet upon the Trial Plate ?
— He had no bet with me.

So far as you know he had none ? — I know he backed
Fullerton in the Jubilee Stakes.

Was it the ordinary course between you for Wood to ask you
to be put on, or for you to ask him whether he wished to be put
on ? — I really do not know, and I cannot tell you. I may say in

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this race Braw Lass was receiving 12 lb. from Fullerton, and
only beat him a head ; Fullerton was fom'th, and he was within
three-quarters or half a length of the winner, and Braw Lass
was receiving 12 lb. from Fullerton, and beat him a head ; and
last year Fullerton tried to give 3 lb. only to Braw Lass, and she
beat him a head upon the same course.

You are entitled to say that, but do you not know it to be a
fact that Braw Lass was notoriously a greatly improved mare
upon last year's running compared with the previous year ? — I
think so, and this would show an improvement of a stone.

Is it not a notorious matter, also, that that very Bretby Stakes
course is her very best course ? — She beat Fullerton in a canter
over the Rowley Mile.

The next race is the Select Handicap at the next meeting,
and I wish to call your attention to one horse in that race. Do
you think there is anything in the runnmg in the Autumn
Handicap which needs explanation? — According to my own
private opinion I do not think so.

You were disappointed, I presume ? — I have been nothing
else but disappointed with this horse.

Not in the City and Suburban ? — No, I mean this year.

However, you did not feel called upon to ask for an explana-
tion. No adverse comments as to Wood's riding in the race
came to your knowledge ? — No ; I did ask Wood for an explana-
tion, but not suspiciously.

What did you ask him to explain, and what did he say ? — I
asked him for an explanation, and Wood said, ' He could not
go the pace, I suppose ; the two light weights always went faster
than I did, and I never could get on terms with them.'

The matter went no further ? — No, and it looked like it — he
was not beaten further than that from the winner. There were
four heads. Fullerton was at Athol Lass's head.

The statement is, ' Won by a neck, the same between second
and third ' ? — Yes, and Fullerton was a head behind Braw Lass.

Did Wood seem to you in the Dip to make any effort on
Fullerton? — Yes, he did, he was riding with his hands, long
before the Dip.

Did you see his whip flourish ? — At the finish.

Did he touch the horse with the whip ? — No, I do not allow
him to touch my horses with the whip.

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Does he carry a whip ? — Yes.

Merely to show it ?— To flourish it at the horse, as Cannon
does. They always show the horses the whip when they are
calling upon them to win a race.

But not to use it ? — No, I hate it. He does use it sometimes,
but I dislike it very much.

Now, I want to call your attention to the Select Handicap —
Fullerton, 8 st. ; Pythagoras, 7 st. 8 lb. ; Annamite, 6 st. 9 lb. ;
Humewood, 8 st. 1 lb. ; Ashplant, 7 st. 10 lb. ; Mamia, 6 st. 7 lb. ;
Martinet, 6 st. 9 lb. ; 100 to 30 Martinet, 4 to 1 Fullerton, 5 to
each Humewood and Pythagoras, and so on ; won by four
lengths. That race never was in doubt, was it ? — It was
to me.

Where ?— At the Bushes.

I must put it to you on the instructions before me ; did not
Wood ride that race in a very different fashion from his riding
in the Autumn Handicap ? — No, it is a different course. I
thought he was to be beaten this race, but he took his whip out
on the horse 200 yards from home. In the last 200 yards of
this race he was riding with his whip out. Although he won
eventually in the last 50 yards easily, both Annamite and
Martinet went faster.

You do not mean to say he used the whip ? — No, but he had
to show it to the horse.

Am I to take it that there was no contrast which suggested
any doubt to your mind about the running of the horse in those
two races ? — No, because I saw these horses behind Fullerton
could not stay ; they dropped behind.

In reference to that Select Handicap, was there any other
commission except the money you put on yourself ? — No, not a
halfpenny.

So far as you were concerned ? — So far as I was concerned,
and I should like to say something about it.

By all means. — I did not care much whether the horse won,
I was so disgusted. I heard that ill-natured people said after
that I had backed Fullerton at starting price in this race, and I
was very indignant. I had no knowledge of the horse being
backed at starting price by anybody until three weeks ago, and
(then Mr. Benzon told me that he was down at Ascot, and he had
telegraphed up to back Sherrard's selected in that race of 50^.

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starting price. Tliis was a rumour that went about all over the
place, that I had won a lot of money at starting price, and 1
never could account for it until three weeks ago.

People, in other words, came to the conclusion that you had
had a very good race ? — Yes.

Whereas you had not a large amount ? — Had not got what I
had lost on him the week before.

Perhaps, Sir George Chetwynd, you can give me — if not, I
will ask Mr. Weatherby's representative — the amount of the
forfeits, the amount of the entries of those horses, Arbaces,
Columbine, Moncrieffe, Vol-au-Vent, Alucha, and so on ? — The
forfeits would be about 700Z. ; Wood's engagements amounted
to about 7001. ; I bought the horse, and they amount to about
7011.

You appear to have got a paper there ? — Y^es. (The paper
was handed to the learned Counsel.)

I may use this, I suppose ? — Yes, it is only a rough copy I
have made since — it is not correct to a pound, I dare say.

Sir Charles Russell : This paper Sir George Chetwynd
has handed to me, and I have no objection to hand it in. It
appears to give the information I wanted. It is headed, ' Rough
statement of payments and receipts connected with the six
horses Sir George Chetwynd bought from Wood.' This is your
own handwriting ? — Yes, I did it some little time ago.

* Payments, training expenses, 1,040Z.' You worked that
out ?— Yes.

* Forfeits of engagements sold to him with the horses : —
Arbaces, none ; Columbine, l(jl. ; Moncrieffe, 801Z. 16s. Od. ;
Alucha, 280Z. 14s. Od. ; Vol-au-Vent, 1081. 12s. Od. ; Petit Due,
11. — 7071. 12s. My entries and forfeits : — Keep of Alucha, heath
taxes, &c., 250Z. ; jockeys' fees, 861. 2s. Od. ; payment to C.
Wood, 1,200Z.— total, 3,283Z. 14s. Od.' That is made up, you
see, therefore, of the training expenses, forfeits, Sir George
Chetwynd's entries, heath taxes and jockeys' fees, and payment
to Wood, 3,283Z. 14s. Od. Then the other side of the account
is this : — ' Receipts : 1,100Z. Arbaces ; 800Z. Columbine ;
1,130Z. 5s. Od. winnings ; 200Z. Alucha ; 5L Moncrieffe ; 45?.
Petit Due ; Vol-au-Vent died soon after I bought her —
S,280l. 5s. Od.' I put that paper in, as it will be convenient to-
have it to refer to. That is all I have to ask.

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Ee-examined by Sir Heney James.

You have been subject to a long, perhaps not unnecessarily
long, cross-examination. I want first to make clear what mate-
rials my friend had. I believe you have produced for the
inspection of the Defendant and his advisers, first your betting-
book ?— Yes.

And of course, as we see, my learned friend has been cross-
examining from a copy of your betting-book ? — Yes.

Sir Charles Russell : A copy of entries relating to these
horses, not the whole betting-book.

Sir Heney James : But with the opportunity of havuig
every entry that the Defendant's advisers wished? — Yes, they
have had a copy of the bets on 400 races.

And an opportunity of having more if they wished ? — Yes.

Has there also been inspection of your bankers' pass-book ;
also inspection of what has been termed your diary ? — Yes.

And copy taken ? — Yes.

Also inspection and copy of your trial-book ? — Yes.

From which cross-examination has been led by my learned
friend ? — Yes.

I believe, also, your solicitor obtained the copies of your
letters to Wood for the purpose of seeing them ? — Yes.

Having an opportunity, if he thought proper, of returning
them to Wood ? — Yes.

As a fact, did your solicitor furnish to the Defendant's solici-
tors the letters that passed between you and Wood ? — Yes.

For instance, the letter that you read marked ' Private,' was
that furnished by Mr. Sydney to Mr. Lewis ? — Yes.

As far as you know, from that the line of cross-examination
on that point has proceeded ? — Entirely.

Your own solicitor making public those letters ? — They
were letters written by you to Wood, and you could, if you had
thought proper, have allowed them to remain in the possession
of Wood ?

Sir Chaeles Eussell : Wood must disclose them in the
action by Wood.

Sir Heney James : I am speaking of Sir George Chetwynd's
letters. Your solicitor obtained those letters from Wood, I
think, which were written from you to Wood ? — Yes.

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You had no copy in your possession ? — I bad not.

Having so obtained tbem, to your knowledge were copies of
ibem furnished by Mr. Sydney, your solicitor, to Mr. Lewis ? —
•Yes.

In that way my learned friend has been in possession of this
-information ? — Yes.

Apart from your banking book, betting book, trial book, and
-Wood's letters, there has been an opportunity of seeing Messrs.
Weatherby's account, and Messrs. Tattersall's account, and also
appealing to Mr. Brewer ? — Yes.

As far as you know, has every bit of documentary evidence in
your possession of the past years affected by this libel been
disclosed by your solicitor to Lord Dm'ham's advisers ? — Every-
thing.

You have kept nothhig back ? — I have kept nothing back.
: Of any kind ? — Of any kind.

As far as you know, is the whole truth relating to these trans-
actions now disclosed ? — The whole truth.

In your betting books the names of the persons with whom
you bet appear ? — Yes.

Some of them may not be accessible, but for the great bulk
of those persons they are accessible, so that inquiry could be
made as to the truth of your entries ? — Yes.

My friend commenced his cross-examination by asking you if
you had been Steward of the Jockey Club. You have been so ?
— I have.

When was that ?— In 1877, I think.

The Arbitrators know that I should like it to be made public.
What term does a Steward serve ? — For three years.

Mr. LowTHER : 1879, was it not, and going out in 1881 ? —
I went out in 1881, so I must have come in in 1878.

Sir Henry James : My friend thought it right to put this
-question to you : ' One who has served the office of Steward is
ehgible for re-election at a later period ? ' Your answer is ' Yes.'
Then my friend says : * It is hardly re-election, I think, but-co-
optation ? — Yes. Q. Have you served more than once ? — No.'
Of course in your experience of racing there have been a great
many gentlemen connected with the turf who have served as
Stewards ?— Yes.

Out of all those persons who have served as Stewards how

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many have been re-elected ? — I can only remember two instances.
I believe there are only two instances.

Those two, I believe, are two of the Arbitrators ?— Lord
March and Mr. Lowther.

Out of all the persons who have served, they are knowji as
being the best known persons on the turf ? — Yes.

Those are the only two Stewards that have been re-elected ?
—Yes.

Mr. Lowthee: I w^as very nearly calling attention to Sir
Charles Eussell's remark at the time he made it, and thought an
impression might be created that some reflection was cast upon
a member not being re-elected. I do not suppose Sir Charles
meant it in that way. I believe as a matter of fact there is one
other, but unless Sir Charles wished to draw any inference from it
I need not mention it.

Sir Chaeles Kussell : Not at all. I wished to sec v/hat
was the extent of Sir George Chetwynd's experience, and fix his
position and responsibility in relation to public racing.

Mr. Lowthee : You do not mean any reflection from the fact
that he was not re-elected ?

Sir Chaeles Kussell : No. My client Lord Durham has
never been Steward. There is no reflection on him that he has
not been.

Sir Heney James : The next question you were asked was
about this person of the name of Walton. I think my learned
friend Sir Charles Russell must have meant in his question that
it was in consequence of something that occurred betweeii you
and Walton you were requested to take your horses away from
Bedford Lodge stable.

Sir Chaeles Russell : I meant that the horse was sold to
this man, Walton, and if the horse was in the stable, that would
give him a right of access to the stable, which was objection-
able.

Sir Heney James : I think, also, that my learned friend
Sir Charles Russell meant that the principal employers of
that stable — either Mr. Crawfurd, who was then unwell, or
the Duchess of Montrose — requested you to leave the stable.
This American, Walton, was known to you, and you sold liim
a horse, I think ? — Yes, I and another gentleman sold ]jim a
horse.

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Who was the other owner of that horse ? — Mr. Henry
Higgms.

When did the sale of that horse take place ? — Immediately
before the race that he won in the year 1882, at the end of the
year 1881.

When did you, as a fact, take your horse away from Bedford
Lodge ? — At the end of the season 1882, more than a year
afterwards.

What was the race the horse you sold won ? — It was the Trial
Stakes at Newmarket, to he sold for 1 ,0001. ; I remember the
race, and a horse called Favor was second.

If you refer to page 55 the cross-examination is that, in con-
sequence of the sale of this horse, that was the reason given by
the Duchess of Montrose, or Mr. Crawfurd, who I believe was in
bad health.

Mr. LowTHER : I have taken down that the horse was sold to
Walton at the end of 1881, and that Sir George continued to
train in the stable until the end of 1882 ?

Sir Henry James : Yes.

Prince Soltykoff : He remained there a year after ? — More
than a year.

Sir Henry James : Were you in the habit of seeing Mr.
Crawfurd during the season of 1882 ? — Yes.

Were you and Mr. Crawfurd on friendly terms ? — Yes.

And with the Duchess ? — Yes, I managed her horses in 1882.

During 1882 Mr. Crawfurd and the Duchess of Montrose were
coming to Bedford Lodge stable, and you have just said you
managed Mr. Crawfurd s horses during 1882. Had you any
difference during that year at all with Mr. Crawfurd and the
Duchess of Montrose ? — No, not at all until after this letter.

Up to that letter in November 1882, had any word passed
between you and the Duchess of Montrose about the sale of this
horse in 1881 ? — Not before that letter or after.

Having that letter in your possession, you now adhere to the
statement that you made the day before yesterday : ' The Duchess
of Montrose wrote to me and asked me to, and said that she
w^anted to keep the stable to their own horses entirely ' ? — I do.

The next point that you were asked about was that Wood had
received a present from this Mr. Walton. Did you speak to Wood
about it ? — I did. I wished to know what had occurred.

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What did Wood tell you ? — He told me the whole story that
he had told Walton — that he thought this animal would win, and
that Walton had backed the animal and made him a present, and
I told him to go and repeat the whole story to the Stewards of
the Jockey Club.

Do you know whether Wood did go to the Stewards or not ?
• — I believe so.

You thought it your duty to tell Wood to go to the Stewards,
and you believe he did tell them ? — Yes, I am sure he did.

The next question you were asked was as to the owners who
trained in the years 1885, 1886, and 1887. Does General Owen
Williams still train at Sherrard's ? — Yes.

Does Mr. Abington train there at all now ? — Yes.

You have been asked by Sir Charles Eussell, at page 57, as
to your partnership with Mr. Baird as to inquiries you made
about him. Y^our partnership with Mr. Baird is registered at
Weatherby's ? — Yes.

At any rate that register would be open to the Stewards of
the Jockey Club ?— Yes.

Did anyone of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, or anyone
else, ever remonstrate with you for being part owner of a horse
with Mr. Baird ? — Never. I told the handicapper he was.

Would that register be open to the handicapper or not, do you
know ? — I do not know whether it would. If he wished to see
it no doubt the Stewards would give him permission.

Mr. LowTHER : If he asked, it certainly would.

Did your trainer, did your stable know and your jockey
Imow ? — Yes.

My friend has asked you as to your running a horse that was
your own horse at the same time that you would be running a
horse which was a partnership horse of yours and Mr. Baird.
He puts it to you that was an improper transaction. Did you
ever have any remonstrance made to you by anyone until this
trial has arisen of there being any impropriety in your running
horses under such conditions ? — No.

Mr. LowTHER : I do not want you to be under the impression
that the Stewards of the Jockey Club knew anything about
these partnerships until their attention was called to the matter
at a late day.

Sir Henry James : That is not my point. My point is that

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Sir George Chetwynd had placed information in Mr. Weatherby's
hand so that at any moment it might be known. Personally, I
do not suppose they did. It will save me some time in re-exami-
nation as to Mr. Baird, Lord Lurgan, and others, if I now
put in a letter written by Lord Durham, or else I should have
to go through those. It is a letter written by Lord Durham to
Lord Lurgan, dated the 27th December, 1887, after the speech at
the Gimcrack Club at York. At the end Lord Durham says : * I
will write you a more sincere and formal one if you wish one for
publication.' Lord Durham allows it to be read, Lord Lurgan
having applied to him for permission. It is an answer to a letter
written by Lord Lurgan to Lord Durham asking for an explana-
tion of the speech at York, and this is the reply : ' 27th December,
1887. — My dear Lurgan, — Your letter only reached me this
morning. It is quite correct that I gave George Lambton my
authority to inform you or any other gentleman, with the ex-
ception of Sir George Chetwynd, that I have no wish or intention
to make any imputation against you in my remarks at the Gim-
crack Club dinner on the subject of Sherrard's stable. I do not
see a single point in any press notice that can be construed into
a behef that I referred to you. Under these circumstances I
hope you will agree with me that it is unnecessary for you to take
any pubUc notice of my speech. A newspaper correspondence
is a nuisance. On the other hand, if you wish to publish a letter
from me I shall be most happy to send you a formal and sincere
denial of my intention to make any imputation if you wish it for
publication.' Lord Durham has been good enough to tell Lord
Lurgan that he has no objection to this being taken as a letter
that may be read in public. He says : ' It is quite correct that
I gave George Lambton my authority to inform you or any other
gentleman, with the exception of Sir George Chetwynd, that
I had no wish or intention to make any imputation against you.*

Now, the next point was the bet with Wood. I think, Mr.
Lowther, we have it now from your statement that the original
rule against high betting appeared in December 1883, and that
it was not till December 1887, in the * Calendar ' next before
the Gimcrack speech, that any alteration was made in that rule.

Mr. Lowther : As far as I have ascertamed that is sub-
stantially correct. Of course I am not a witness ; you must verify
it for yourself.

APPENDIX 285

Sir Heney James : You were good enough to make the
statement yesterday.

Sir Charles Russell : I accepted it, of course.

Mr. LowTHER : It was the result of examination of docu-
ments which had been given in evidence.

Sir Henry James : On December 14th, 1887, Lord Durham
himself says, in the last number of the ' Racing Calendar ' the
Stewards have inserted a notice to the effect, and so on.

I think you stated in your evidence that you were under the
impression that you mentioned to one of the Stewards, and I
think you said somewhat hesitatingly to Lord March, the fact of
your betting during the time you were betting small sums. I do
not know whether your memory enables you to say to which of
the Stewards it was you spoke ? — No, I beheve this to have been
m 1884.

You mentioned Lord March ? — I mentioned it, not knowing
whether I had done so or not. I have no recollection who waa
the person.

You did mention this matter to Mr. Lowther when, this ques-
tion arose ? — Yes.

I want, if you please, to get the detail of this betting of
Wood's upon Fullerton. I am taking the 1887 betting. In
the Lincoln Handicap was 50Z. spent by Wood in backing Fuller-
ton ? — Yes.

That he lost ?— That he lost.

In the Crawfurd Plate lOZ. ?— Yes.

That he won ? — That he won.

The Babraham Plate 101. — that he won ? — Yes.

The Manchester Cup 50Z. — that he lost ? — Yes.

The Wilton Plate 50^.— that he lost ?—25L

Stewards' Cup lOZ.— that he lost ?— Yes.

Select Handicap 20^. — that he won ? — Yes.

The result I make it on the races, I do not say what the
winnings were, but on the races he won 40/. was spent, and on
the races he lost 135/. was spent ? — Yes.

I am giving the money expended, of course. What was the
result of the winnings is another figure. There is a question
shortly afterwards asked you on which I have to ask you several
questions. My friend, Sir Charles Russell, asked you whether you
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did not expect it, and lie asked you why did you run it. Have
you frequently run horses in races when you did not expect them
to win ? — Yes.

Of course there may be many reasons why you take that
course of running them ? — Yes.

Will you give me some of those reasons why you run a horse
when you do not expect him to win ? — I might have sent him
over from Newmarket to run for an engagement, not knowing
what the field would be. Very often a race would dwindle down
to two or three runners, when, if he was badly handicapped, he
might have a chance of winning against those running against
him. I should not have any knowledge of what horses were
going to run in these small handicaps. When a horse is there
he may as well take his chance. On many occasions when I
have had horses I have backed others in the race and lost
lieavily.

Supposing you find a handicapper putting a certain weight on
your horse, and you think he cannot win at that weight, and he
is heavily handicapped, how can you show the handicapper the
true form of your horse without running him ? — You could not,
he would go on handicapping him at what he considered a proper
weight.

In your opinion, is there anything wrong in running a horse
if you think it is heavily handicapped to let the handicapper see
what he can do in company with other horses, in order to get him
down to his proper standard of handicapping ? — Distinctly not.

If he was handicapped very heavily, and you kept him in the
stable, you could not get the weiglit lowered ? — The handicapper
would advise you to run him. He would say, * I cannot take
anything off until I see how he runs.'

Until my learned friend asked those questions did you ever
know that it was wrong to run a horse when you did not expect
it to win ? — No.

Did you know it was the absolute bounden duty of an owner
to back a horse when he ran ? — No.

Of course, the price the horse starts at would be some evidence
"whether the owner was backing it or not ? — Yes.

Supposing the horse has been run at 100 to 1. I see Fuller-
ton, when he was in Lord Dudley's hands, started at 200 to 1
once — it is in the * Calendar ' — in the Cambridgeshire last year ;

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■^ould such a fact be an ingredient in the consideration of the
handicapper ? — No doubt, if he saw it he would think there was
some reason for the horse starting at such a long price.

He would know, at least, that his owner had not backed it,
probably ? — Yes, did not fancy it.

And therefore did not expect it to win ? — And therefore did
not expect it to win.

Fullerton did lose his three races in 1886 ? — Yes.

My learned friend, Sir Charles Russell, has been good enough
to make a statement about your good faith in backing the horse
in 1887. I take it as a fact you backed him for the Lincoln
Handicap, the first race of 1887, and intended him to win? —
Certainly.

If he won that race, I suppose his weight would have been
put higher than it was afterwards ? — Yes.

I do not want to go through it now at this moment, but you
did go on backing that horse, as now admitted, in good faith
during the whole of 1887 ?— Yes.

Whatever the horse had done in 1886. In the first place tell
me who will be the handicapper for Lincoln ? — Mr. Ford.

The weight that was put on — was that what you would
consider a fair weight for Fullerton on his merits ? — At the time
I thought it was rather too much weight.

Sir Chakles Eussell : 7 st. 4 lb.

Sir Heney James : And of course he did not win with it.
(To Witness :) When did you sell Fullerton to Lord Dudley ?

Sir Chaeles Eussell : After the Stockbridge Meeting in
1888.

Sir Heney James : I think the first race that Fullerton ran
in after the sale in 1888 would be July 4th, for the July Cup, at
Newmarket ? — Yes.

That race, if you please, is at page 226 in the * Calendar ' of
1888. There were only two horses started, I think, for that
race ? — Yes.

Van Dieman's Land and Fullerton, with 4 to 1 on. That
was won by one length. I suppose that will tell you nothing ? —
No.

The next race is nothing again, it is a walkover. And then
we come to the Newmarket Second October, the Trial Plate,
page 459 ; 2 to 1 Fullerton, and 9 to 4 your horse Crafton, 5 to

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2 Love in Idleness, and a horse tliat was not backed at all— •
Braw Lass — won ? — Yes.

And Fullerton was last ? — Yes.

Love in Idleness second, your horse third ? — Yes.

Should you think that was Fullerton' s true running or not ?
— No, abominable running.

At this time it was Lord Dudley's ? — Yes.

Sir Charles Eussell : He gave 10 lb. to Braw Lass ? —
Fullerton was beaten off in this race.

Sir Henky James : Which horse did you back ? — I backed
Crafton and Fullerton.

Fullerton was beaten off ? — Yes.

Bidden by Watts ?— Yes.

Can you account for that by anything you saw in the race ? —
No.

Should you call that in-and-out running ? — Yes.

Sir Charles Eussell : Does he not know that the horse
was amiss ?

Sir Henry James : Do you know that the horse had been
amiss ? — No, I know that he had been backed, and was thought
sure to win.

Somebody backed it at 2 to 1 ? — Yes.

Would it be right for an owner, if he knew it to be amiss, to
back it and let the public back it ? — He looked well enough.

Quite well enough for you to back him ? — Quite well enough
for me to back him. I went to see him.

You had known the horse before ? — Yes.

And the public who backed it ? — Yes.

The next race is the Cambridgeshire, in the Newmarket
Houghton ; Fullerton starts at 200 to 1. I will accept my
learned friend. Sir Charles Eussell's, formula.

Sir Charles Eussell : Top-weight, 9 st. 1 lb.

Sir Henry James : And with that consequence 200 to 1.
Starting at 200 to 1, does that look as if the owner thought it
could win ? — No.

Or could back it ? — No.

Can you tell me why Lord Dudley should have started a
horse he did not expect to win ? — For the same reason that I
should have. It showed that he thought he had no chance at
that weight.

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I think you were asked that five times, I only ask it once,
that is as to Lord Dudley. I suppose the weight was a very
heavy weight ? — Only three pounds more than he carried in the
City and Suburban.

What kind of handicap relatively would the Cambridgeshire
be ? — Very much the same.

What did he carry in the City and Suburban ?— 8 st. 12 lb.

Sir Chakles Eussell : Would you mind asking whether
he did not run well in the race ? — No, he ran horribly.

Sir Henky James : I will ask the question. How did he
run in the Cambridgeshire ? — He ran very badly indeed.

Did you see the race ? — Yes.

There were about twenty horses : whereabouts did he come
in ? — I should think not in the first fifteen.

Now, take the next race, page 504, that is a weight-for-age
race. There he meets Draw Lass again. The horse would have
carried 9 st. 2 lb. ?— Yes.

It is only a sex allowance ? — Yes.

He had met Draw Lass before, 8 st. 9 lb. and 9 st. 51b. ? —
Yes.

So there he was giving Draw Lass 11 lb. ? — 10 lb.

And there he was beaten off, I think ? — Yes.

He now meets Braw Lass at a difference of 3 lb., and is
beaten by a head ? — Yes.

Is that in-and-out running or not ? — Yes.

He was backed at 5 to 1 ? — Yes.

And at that difference of 7 lb. in his favour runs Braw Lass
to a head, having been beaten off before ? — Yes, 21 lb. would
look like bringing them together before, not under.

The race we have got at page 459 is a mile course ? — Yes.

What is this course ? — This course is the last six furlongs of
the same course.

It is not so good a course for him as a mile course ? — No, it
is not.

Then there is only one other race that he ran, page 538. In
the Liverpool Autumn Handicap he was made first favourite at
5 to 1, and the race was won by Lady Rosebery, 5 st. 12 lb.,
Fullerton carrying 8 st. 12 lb. first favourite, and he is not
placed. Do you know where he was ? — He was only fifth, I
think he could have been third.

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Bismarck was only getting 12 lb. from him for the two years ?

—Yes.

And he was made first favourite ? — Yes.

Take this year 1888, what do you say is the result of Fuller^
ton's running ? — It is inconsistent.

On all these occasions he was ridden not by Wood at any
rate, but by Watts generally ? — Yes.

Did you ever hear of Lord Dudley asking for any inquiry ? —
No.

Of the inexplicable running of Fullerton. Now to just
finish this horse's career, I believe it finished yesterday as far
as running was concerned ? — Yes.

We will come to the year 1889. It is not very long. In
1889 you said he ran his best race and his worst race ? — Yes.

Which do you call his best race ? — The City and Suburban.

That was won by Goldseeker, startmg at 50 to 1 ? — Yes.

And Fullerton, 6 to 1, ran second. Which do you caU his
worst race ? — The Lincoln Handicap of this year.

He carried 8 st. 12 lb., he was very nearly last I think ? —
Yes, he was.

Fullerton is six years old now ? — Yes. The Baron was third
in the Lincoln Handicap of this year, and Fullerton was nearly
last ; and in the City and Suburban, in nearly a month, Fullerton
had nearly the same weights, I believe identical weights, and
beat The Baron by two lengths, having been beaten by 50 yards
in the Lincoln Handicap ; there again the state of the ground
was very deep in Lincoln.

What do you say about the ground ? — I say it was very deep
at Lincoln.

That accounts for his being beaten ? — To me, most distinctly.

That, as you say, was the condition of the ground in the
Lincoln Handicap the year before ? — Yes.

What would be the difference apparently from the beatings ?
When The Baron beat him at Lincoln, and he beat The Baron
at the City and Suburban, what is the difference between the
two horses in those two races ? — It is extraordinarily incon-
sistent. It does not make The Baron's running inconsistent,
because he ran pretty right with Wiseman in both races, but
it makes Fullerton 's running so inconsistent that he should have
been beaten so far by The Baron and Wiseman, the winner, and

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should have beaten them so much in the City and Suburban,
meeting Wiseman on so much better terms for himself in the
City and Suburban.

Going back to Sutler. That is going back to the Bedford
Lodge affair. My learned friend, Sir Charles Russell, has in the
exercise of his discretion referred to the in-and-out running of
no horse, I think, in particular except Fullerton.

Sir Charles Russell : I really meant to apply the same
to Arbaces, Abelard, Plantagenet, Acme, Torch Light, and
Cassimere.

Sir Henry James : In the first place let me dispose of this.
Acme does not belong to you ? — No.

To whom ? — Lord Lurgan.

That is the gentleman to whom Lord Durham wrote the
letter saying he made no charge against him ? — Yes.

Now as cross-examination has been put to you in respect of
the in-and-out running of this horse, have you ever had the
slightest knowledge of any intentional false running of the
horse ? — I have not.

In the first place have you any reason to believe it to exist ?
— No, I have no reason to believe it.

I need not remind you, you are on oath. If it is charged
that you had any hand or part in it, is that charge untrue ? —
Untrue.

Torch Light belonged to Lord Lurgan ?— Torch Light
belonged to Lord Lurgan.

Cassimere to Sherrard ? — Yes.

I do not know whether my learned friend's admission that
you have acted fairly as to Fullerton extends to Abelard, Plan-
tagenet, and Arbaces, but as to those horses they did belong to
you ? — They did.

Did you at any time have any knowledge of those horses
running falsely ? — I did not.

Have you any reason to believe they did ?— I have no reason
to believe they did.

Did you at any time take part in any false running of the
horses ? — Nor of any other horses.

Every bet about them is in your book ? — Yes.

And diary and bank-book and everything, so far as they bear
on these horses, have been open to inspection ? — Y^es.

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I think there is one exception, that you did not enter in your
betting-book the bets you made on races at Manchester. As a
rule you do enter them in your book ? — I do. I beHeve I saw it
in my trial-book when I was looking for a trial for Sir Charles
Eussell.

I think it is on the note, but I will ask you again : in 1887
you backed Fullerton, in the three races that he won, for 5101. t
winning thereby 2,1901. ? — Yes.

And you expended, on the races that he lost, 3,287/. ? — Yes.

The result being that, in that year, you backed him for 2,717/.
more when he lost than when he won ? — Yes.

And that you lost, by that horse, 1,097Z. ? — l^es, that is
correct.

I believe it was at the end of the year 1887 that you had
heard comments made upon Fullerton's running ? — Yes.

Was any explanation asked from you, and given ? — Y'es.

To the Stewards ? — To the Stewards.

You had read Lord Durham's speech ? — No, not then.

Y^'ou did afterwards ? — Yes.

I think you sent your brother to him ? — Yes.

Until you heard Sir Charles Russell's statement in this
court, had you any intimation from Lord Durham that he
admitted that you had acted bond fide in backing Fullerton
during that year ? — No, I never heard of it.

You have it again that Lord Durham had, since the month of
May 1888, been in possession of the Answers to Literrogatories,
and all your documents disclosed to him ? — Y^es.

Those Answers to Literrogatories were dated May 28th,
1888. I will only take them generally, for as my learned friend
says, I have no right to go in detail into them, but they did give
a statement of your bets ? — Yes.

And that statement was made on oath ? — On oath.

Now I want, if you please, to deal with this horse Portnellan.
That horse is one that is mentioned in Paragraph 3 as one of the
horses that were constantly and inexplicably in-and-out running
— that is the horse that Wood purchased for you ? — Yes.

Upon your oath, from the time of the purchase of that horse
has Wood had any interest in it ? — None whatever.

Has he had any interest directly or indirectly in that horse ?
— None w^iatever.

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Did you pay the entirety of the training bill ? — Just the
same as my other horses.

Do you pay the forfeits ? — Yes.

The entries ? — Yes.

And you backed it ? — Y^es. I lost a great deal of money
on him.

I think we have it that the sum that you lost during the
year was 1,080Z. ? — Y'es.

Had Wood anything to do with any of the business transac-
tions connected with that horse ? — Nothing at all.

I do not think you were cross-examined in detail as to the
running of this horse ; did that horse run constantly and
inexplicably as a horse running in-and-out ? — Quite inexpli-
cably ; it was half blind, and had a bad leg as well. It used
to jump in a race. We could not make out what was the
matter with him. Mr. Barrow examined him, and found he
was half blind ; he had a cataract in his eye.

At any rate, as regards your good faith, you lost 1,080?. ?
—I lost 1,080Z.

My friend, Sir Charles Russell, says that is not the kind
of horse he would have bought, half blind, and something the
matter with his leg ; was that so when you bought him ? Did
you know of the blindness ? — -No, I knew nothing about it.

When did you find out Portnellan was so afflicted '? — Next
year ; he went so funnily in racing.

When you first commenced to run it, did you know of this
bhndness ? — Little Loates told me that he jumped about in
the air. I did not know about it, and I went to Cannon
and asked him if he had any suspicion of the horse's eye-
sight before we bought him.

The other horse I am told I am to look at is Gordon. What do
you say as to that horse's running ? — I say he is a great slobber-
ing horse. I do not think his running is at all inexplicable. I
think he is a very funny horse.

I believe the result of your bets on that horse was that you
won 135Z. on it ? — Yes, I have never backed him for much ; I
hated him so.

I think on Abelard you won 25Z. ?— Y^es.

What do you say as to that horse's running ? — I say he is a
very slow, bad horse.

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Of course, if you take tlie * Racing Calendar,' there may pos-
sibly be some horses who always run according to their merit ;
but those horses, I suppose, would be an exception ? — They would
be horses like Ormonde, and that kind of thing.

I am not going before the gentlemen who are the Arbitrators
to go through every race that this horse ran ; but would it be a
ground for making a charge against anyone if you saw a certain
horse not running always up to the same weight ? — No, I think
not, I have suffered too much from it myself.

To what cause would you principally attribute the in-and-out
running of horses ? — The character and nature of the course and
of the ground, to the distance, and to the state of health the
horse was in. Horses are like men, they are not well Hke
others.

Their tempers are not always so good ? — Their tempers are
not always so good, and accidents happen to them in a race.

I suppose some days a horse will try, and some days it will
not ? — Yes, I know some of my horses have run shiftily at times,
and other times game, or they appeared to do so.

I mentioned that you had won 251. by Abelard ; I am told it
is lost by him ? — I have lost by him.

In these particulars, there are a number of paragraphs saying
that you were part owner with Wood and Lewis in the years
1885, 1886, and 1887, and also that you were cognisant of
Sherrard being part owner with Wood of certain horses. To
what extent did you interfere with the horses in Sherrard' s
stable that were not your own ? — I did not interfere at aU
with them.

I believe you did for a time have the management of Mr.
Benzon's horses ? — Yes.

But with the exception of that gentleman's horses, did you
interfere in the management of any other horses ? — Never,
unless I was consulted. General Owen Williams used to
consult me now and then, and now and then Lord Lurgan, but
not always.

You took, as we understand, the sole management of your
own horses, and you did not allow anyone to interfere with
those ? — Not a soul.

But had you any cognisance of the dealings of other persons
with their horses, except in relation to Mr. Benzon ? — I had not.

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I think, sir, you understaDd the cliarge has been made by
the second particulars of unfair dealing with horses, and that
they did not run upon their true merits. The particulars are
confined to unfair riding, and not as to any running them unfit.
The particulars are silent upon that point. * The horses referred
to in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd paragraphs of the particulars of
justification already delivered were run unfairly in the sense
that they were ridden with the object of not winning the races
referred to in the said paragraphs. Dehvered the 11th May,
1888.' Now, you will see as regards paragraph 21, the cross-
examination has been not to Lucebit, Lovely, and Kinfauns
being ridden unfairly, but as to their being started when they
were unfit. (To Witness :) As regards Goater, have you any
reason to believe that he rode those horses] unfairly ? — No, I
have not.

My friend cross-examined as to Goater' s merits ; but, what-
ever his merits may be, do you believe he rode honestly ? — I am
certain he rode honestly.

I believe there was an inquiry before the Stewards ? — Yes.

And we have the letter from Lord March saying that there
was no charge against Goater of having ridden mifairly ? —
Yes.

Many of those horses mentioned in paragraph 22 would
not be ridden by Wood. For instance, Goater rode at Brighton ?
— Yes.

And as to a great many of those horses, referring to the
answer you gave me a very few minutes ago, you would have
nothing whatever to do with selecting the jockeys ? — Nothing on
earth.

They would have been selected by other owners, such as
General Owen Williams, Lord Lurgan, Mr. Hammond, and Sir
George Arthur? I think you were part owner w^ith Sir George
Arthur ? — Not in the horse mentioned — Kose Window.

Take Mr. Hungerford, Mr. Hammond, Sir George Arthur,
General Owen Williams, Mr. Sherrard, and Lord Lurgan, would
you have anything to do in selecting the jockey who was
supposed or alleged to have ridden a horse unfairly ? — No, I
should not.

Now I call your attention particularly to paragraph 23. You
are there charged with being cognisant of, and party to, the run-

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ning of horses unfairly, that is being ridden unfairly, and not
upon their true merits, and not with the view of winning the
races in which they ran in 1877. With respect to any one of
those horses were you cognisant of their being ridden unfairly at
all ? — No, I was not.

It is said comments were made in the press on different
horses, and the conduct of different jockeys. With the exception
of General Owen Williams's request in respect of Success, which
I believe was made in Wood's interest, and not against him, did
any one of those owners complain of the jockeys they selected
riding unfairly ? — I have never heard so.

We have heard about Goater. With that exception, with
respect to all those races in which it is said you were cognisant
of their being ridden unfairly, did any one of the owners ask for
any inquiry before the Stewards of the Jockey Club ? — I have
not heard of any.

Or did the Stewards of the Jockey Club initiate any ? — I have
not heard of it, except Fullerton.

I was omitting that. An inquiry as to Fullerton did take
place ? — Yes.

Did you produce your betting book ? — I did.

Before the Stewards ? — Before the Stewards.

What date would that be in relation to the speech ? — It was
after the speech was made, but before I read it.

It was before these particulars were delivered ? — Yes, long
before.

You, as we know, answered, upon your oath, interrogatories.
My learned friend has asked you as to rumours you heard in
respect of Charles Wood. Did you at any time hear rumours
with respect to Wood's riding ? — I have.

All this, I believe, has been stated, but the first rumour
I think you heard was with respect to this horse, Sutler? —
Y"es.

That was partly belonging to Mr. Higgins, and partly to you ?
—Yes.

Some statement appeared in the press with respect to it ? —
Yes, in a paper called Truth.

Had you and Mr. Higgins backed the horse for that race, and
lost heavily ? — Yes.

Did you place the editor of Truth in possession of the

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knowledge of what yon had done in relation to backing the
horse ?— Yes.

After that did yon get the promise of a retraction or contra-
diction ? — Yes.

I believe there was a second occasion when something was
said about the riding of Plantagenet ? — Yes.

That was long after, in April 1887 ? — Yes.

Was that in relation to the running at the Kempton Park
Meeting on Easter Monday in 1887 ? — Yes.

Had you backed the horse ? — Yes, for SOOl. or 900/.

Wood rode it ? — Y^es.

Looking at the fact of your having backed it for that amount,
had you the slightest knowledge of any improper riding of that
horse ? — Not the least.

Do you believe Wood rode him improperly ? — I am sure he
did not.

I come now to the purchase of these horses — what we term
the Arbaces lot— those are the transactions referred to in the
etters that have been read. You marked one letter ' private ' '?
—I did.

Did you put two letters in the same envelope ? — I did.

One intended to be kept by Wood and the other to be sent
on ? — Yes.

There being those two letters in the same envelope, did you
mark the one that was to be kept ' private ' ? — Yes.

And did you leave the one that he was to send on to the
Stewards, or to Mr. Weatherby, open, without the word 'private '?
—I did.

Looking back upon that, what was your reason for putting
the word ' private ' ? — Simply, no doubt, that he might not con-
fuse the two letters.

From the time those letters were written, has Wood had any
interest whatever in those horses '? — He has not had any interest
whatever.

Does the same answer apply with respect to everything else '?
Has he had any interest whatever ? — He has none.

It is true at this time you were without funds ? — Yes.

You have made out an account, which, of course, you made
out roughly as you said ? — Y'^es.

You have given no account there of the sum that you have

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298 EXPERIENCES OF THE TUlfF

received in stakes. Is that taken into account "? — Yes, I think
so ; winnings are stakes.

I think you are right, and I am wrong. The winnings come
in under the words ' receipts,' with the sales. Where do you
put the entrances ? — They are there.

Had you the whole management of those horses ? — Yes.

As far as you know, did Wood ever interfere with them in
any way ? — I am certain he did not.

Beyond marking that letter * private ' which was placed in
the same envelope as the one intended to he sent on, did you
ever impose privacy on Sherrard, Wood, or anyone, in relation
to this matter ? — I did not. In Wood's entries they would
naturally he marked in my colours ; but his name would be on
the card. Having bought his entries with a horse, when it
came to my turn to run the horse it would be in his name on
the card, but in my colours.

Up to the end of 1887, as you say, you were not in funds.
There was, we know now, a sum of money that you received
from Weatherby's ? — Yes.

W^as it 1,700/. or 1,800/. ?— 1,700/.

From what source or sources did that come ? — That came
from my winnings during the year.

Did that sum enable you to pay Wood 314/. "? — No ; I think
I paid his riding bill first.

Afterwards you paid the 315/. ? — Yes.

And you paid Sherrard a sum of money ? — Yes, I did. I
was often mentioning that I was indebted to Wood, and ought
to pay him ; but he said, ' Pay Sherrard first of all.' I con-
tinually paid Sherrard sums of money on account.

You have been asked some questions touching your giving
up Wood to other owners of horses sometimes. Is that an
unusual course ? — No ; I do not think so at all.

Under what ch'cumstances would it be usual for an owner
to give up his first jockey or his principal jockey to another
o^\TLier ? — If he thought that the other horse had a much better
chance than his own.

You have been asked about Mr. Baird riding a horse called
— I think it is Hammoon. You backed a horse for him in the
same race ? — Yes — Cliftonian.

Of course, if there is any evil in that, it would be that Mr.

APPENDIX 299

Baird would not win on the horse he rode, and would leave
Cliftonian to win if he could ? — That would be the suggestion.

The chief offender there would he Mr. Baird ? — Yes, if that
had happened.

He is one of the persons in Sherrard's stable who would
come within Lord Durham's letter saying that he makes no
charge against th'em ? — I suppose so.

You told us yesterday that at the time you made that bet
for Mr. Baird you did not know that he was going to ride ? — No,
I thought he was going to ride Tommy Upton in the first race.

Have you any reason to believe that Mr. Baird is a person
who would give up winning a race in which he was riding ? —
No, quite the contrary.

We also went into the settlement between you and Mr.
Baird in January 1888. Is that the account that was made
out (handing) ? — Yes.

Does this set out the account of bets and the transactions
that took place between you ? — Y'es.

' January 1888, I owe you ' — that is Mr. Baird who is
speaking ? — There I am speaking.

' I owe you GOO/, bets ; 787/. 10s. — my half Abelard and
Sly '? ' — Yes, coupled.

' They cost 1,575/.? '—Yes.

' 600/., my half of Brighton.' Those three sums, added
together, make 1,987/. 10s. The other side of the account
seems to come in now '? — Then there are training expenses to
be deducted from that.

I think that is deducted from this sum. Then you come to
the other side of the account — ' Y^ou owe ' that is, Mr. Baird,
' half training of Sly, 1886, 29/. 2s. Id. ; half training of White-
friar, 11/. 19s. 3r/. ; half training of Brighton, 20/. lis. ; pur-
chase from me of my half of Whitefriar, 750/. ; purchase from
me of my half of Brighton, 600/. ; due to me half of 100/. put
on Brighton for you at Liverpool — ^Ir. I^arnard put the other
half on— 50/.'— making 1,493/. lis. lch\ 1,498/. lis. Id. being
deducted from 1,987/. lOs. leaves 493/. 18s. 5^7., balance owing
by you to Mr. Baird. Then from that 493/. 18s. 5J. you have to
deduct one-half Sherrard's training bill for 1887, amounting to
275/., leaving 218/. 18s. 5fZ., which you call grand total due to
G. W. Baird. That is signed by Mr. Baird ?— Yes.

oOf) EXPERIEXCES OF THE TURF

I have not been able to follow the minute details, probably, of
some of these races and trials ; but is there anything you wish
to add in reference to the questions put to you, or do you wish
to explain any of the races which were run or the trials ? — No ;
but what I should like to say is this : I was asked yesterday by
Sir Charles Russell whether I thought the condition of the Turf
w^as better now than it was before, and I said no, I did not think
it was. What I do think is that the riding is fairer now, and
that they do not cannon against each other so much, owing to
some very stringent rules that have been passed. Some of the
jockeys have been had up for crossing and have been suspended,
and in that way, I think, they are not so inclined to ride each
other on the rails and that sort of thing, as they were.

Sir Charles Russell : We see this paper for the first time.
Can you tell me how this GOOl. is made up ? — Yes, I can. It
was 6001. to 5001., Abelard to Newmarket.

I should like to ask a question as to a statement made by
you. You were understood to say very early in your re-examina-
tion that your horses — I am not purporting to give the exact
language — had frequently won, when you had backed some other
horse in the race ? — Y^es, there are many instances of it.

I should be glad if you could give me a list of those by
to-morrow morning. — They are here, and you can have them all.

I should like to see a list of them. Can you suggest any
race in which your horses have won in which they have started
at an outside price ? — Y^es, I can.

I should like to see those, also, please. — I will tell you now
one particular one, if you will allow me. I ran a horse called
Craigthorpe, a two-year-old, in a selling race at Sandown some
years ago — I think it w^as in 1882. I thought he had no chance
of winning — none at all. Directly I went into the Ring — I was
there rather late — Mr. Hibbert was the first Ring man I saw, and
he said, * Do you want to back yours ? ' I laughed and said
' No.' ' 20 ponies,' he said. I at once took it. Another Ring
man next to him said, ' 20 ponies ' — I forget whether it was 20
— or something of that sort. I took that. A third Ring man
said ' 20 to 1,' and I took that. Then I backed the favourite,
and my horse won in a canter.

That was in 1882 ?— Yes, I beheve it was in 1882. It was
Si horse called Craigthorpe, a two-year-old.

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Is that the only instance you can mention ? — When I have
hacked my horse at a long price '?

Yes ? — No, that is not the only instance.

I think it is only fair that if you can mention such cases you
should do so — where your horses started at a longish price and
won ? — Kingwood, who was a very good horse, won a race at
Derby about three years ago, and they shrieked 100 to 7 into my
'ear. It is a long price for not a big race, and he won. He was
Sb very good horse.

Are there any other instances ? — I dare say there are. But
those are two important instances.

Sir Heney James : You have been furnishing us, I presume,
with some instances where you have backed horses not your
own, and your own horse has won ? — Yes.

Just look at that (handing) ? — Yes. Those are horses of my
own, and in my stable as well. There are a few not belonging
to me.

Bead out, if you please, one or two of those of your own
horses. — Liverpool Spring Meeting, March 29th, 1884. Lan-
castrian Selhng Plate : my horse Spectrum won, beating Camp
Follower by a neck. I backed Camp Follower only. I took
three ponies from Mr. Hibbert. Mine (Spectrum) was a hot
favourite at 6 to 4 against. Spectrum was ridden by Wood, and
Spectrum Avon by a neck. In the same year Coy, the property
of myself and Sir George Arthur, and ridden by Wood, beat
Kassassin by a neck. I lost 250/. on the race. I backed
Pompey, ridden by Archer.

Sir Chaeles PiUSSell : What was Coy's price ?— 4 to 1, I
think. Then at Northampton on April 1, in the Northampton-
shire Cup, distance a mile ; Scales (my horse), Wood riding,
won ; Zadig (S. Loates) was second ; and Dreamland (Archer)
was third. Scales won by a neck, a head between the second
and third. I did not back my horse which won ; but I backed
Dreamland, laying 60 to 40, Archer riding it.

Coy won in a field of how many? — There were seven
runners, and Coy was second favourite, I think. I lost 250/.
■on the race. In 1886, August 3rd, at Brighton, Lord Lurgan's
Songbird, ridden by Wood, won by four lengths. 2 to 1 was
laid on For Ever. I backed For Ever, and lost 650/. on the
xace.

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Sir Henry James : You can go on giving us instances if
necessary ? — I can go on for a long time. When Hambletonian,
ridden by Wood, won the Select Handicap at Newmarket, I
backed Kingwood, and did not back Hambletonian. They were
both in the stable. I gave Wood up to ride Hambletonian
because General Owen Williams begged me to do so.

I will not trouble you farther about this ; but we can hand
that paper in. Some instances have been put to you with
respect to the running of horses. Of course you have had a
large number of horses in training ? — A great many.

There are a vast number of races other than those which
we are inquiring into in which your horses have run ? — -Yes.

I do not know whether the bets in respect of those horses
are in your betting books '? — For a certain number of years.

You have no objection about inquiry being made into the
running of any of those horses ? — No.

Sir George Chetwynd, recalled.
Further examined by Sir Hexey James.

Y^ou have been in court and have heard the examination of
Wood and Sherrard ? — Y^es.

Until Wood was examined had you the slightest knowledge of
his being the owner of horses running in Macksey's name ? — Not
the slightest.

That, to your knowledge, is an infringement of the rule that
the Stewards of the Jockey Club have laid down ? — Y^es.

Have you by yourself and your solicitor endeavoured to arrive
at the truth of this statement as to whether Wood was the owner
of any horses or not ? — Y^es.

Have you found the slightest trace from any statements made
to you by anyone that Wood was an owner of such horses ? — No.

Referring to the evidence you have given, I presume, if you
had known those facts, you would not have given the evidence
you did as having full confidence in Wood ? — No.

If you had known those facts ?— No. As regards riding my
horses fairly, I still do believe that he rode my horses fairly, but
I do not defend what he said.

I suppose you would not approve of his riding as a jockey for
an owner having a hidden ownership in a horse that was running
in the race itself? — No.

APPENDIX

Shereakd's Ee-examinatiox.

Sir Henry James : Only one or two questions, Slierrard.
"Whatever have been your dealings with Wood have those been
deaHngs betw^een you and him alone, or has Sir George Chetwynd
had anything to do with them ? — Nothing wdmtever.

Did you ever make Sir George Chetwynd acquainted with
either your betting transactions or your advances by Wood, or
aught else ? — No, none whatever.

It is not for me to judge you about the horses, but whatever
you have had to do with ^^'ood in respect to horses, has Sir
George Chetw^ynd in any way interfered in the matter or known
of those transactions, so far as you know ? — No.

You say that positively ? — Positively.

They have been between you and Wood alone ? — Yes.

Were the other horses kept apart or with these horses — the
horses that ran in your name ? — Oh, no, they were mixed up in
the stable with other horses.

Were any of them at all kept separate ? — No.

Were they pointed out or earmarked so that anybody could
know whose they were ? — Certainly not.

So far as you know, did Sir George Chetwynd in any way
inquire to whom the horses belonged ? — No.

Had you a stable apart from the small stable ? — I had at one
time ; at the time we had nearly a hundred horses. I had three
yards going, but I do not have that novr.

Were your horses put into the small stable or kept generally?
— Kept generally.

You are sure of that '? — Positive.

Wood's Re-examixatiox.

Sir Hexry James : Had Sir George Chetwynd any knowledge
at all that you were the real owner of Jezreel '? — Not the
slightest.

And does the same answer apply to your ownership of Don-
caster Cup ? — Certainly.

Would Sir George Chetwynd have any knowledge of the state
of your banking account, of your betting transactions, or of the
presents made to you ? — I should say certainly not.

And would Sir George Chetwynd have any knowledge cf }Our

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transactions with Slierrard except as far as you were landlord
and tenant ?— I should say certainly not.

Now, Mr. Hammond made you a present of 1,000Z. after the
Cesarewitch of 1884 ?— Yes.

And in the Houghton week you won three races for him.
What is your recollection now as to the 5001. which has heen
mentioned ? — It is a long time ago, but I should say that Mr.
Hammond gave me the 500/. for winning these three races.

Do you recollect seeing Sir George with Mr. Hammond at
Derby November Meeting, and speaking to him on the subject
of this statement that you had received 5001. from Hammond
after the Cambridgeshire ? — Yes.

And did not you and Mr. Hammond both assure Sir George
that no such gift was made in relation to that race ? — Yes, I
think that did occur, and I think Mr. Hammond also wrote to
the Duke of Westminster.

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