Riding recollections and turf stories . ride the mare all through her engagements, andhad promised to do so. The General did not giveme any retainer, and I got into disgrace with CaptainMachell because I did not ride Knight of theGarter in the Middle Park Plate: I told theCaptain I had given my word to General Pearsonthat I would ride his mare in all her engagements,and I could not depart from it. Captain Machellwanted to say I was engaged to Blosss stable, andcertainly ought to give them the preference. Any-how, I was taken off Achievement for the Princeof Waless Stakes at Ascot, and Chaloner
Riding recollections and turf stories . ride the mare all through her engagements, andhad promised to do so. The General did not giveme any retainer, and I got into disgrace with CaptainMachell because I did not ride Knight of theGarter in the Middle Park Plate: I told theCaptain I had given my word to General Pearsonthat I would ride his mare in all her engagements,and I could not depart from it. Captain Machellwanted to say I was engaged to Blosss stable, andcertainly ought to give them the preference. Any-how, I was taken off Achievement for the Princeof Waless Stakes at Ascot, and Chaloner substi-tuted. She was a very great favourite, and, need-less to say, I was pleased to see her defeated veryeasily by Vauban,giving her 5 lb. On the lastday of the meeting the Duke of Beauforts coltagain beat her by three lengths in a canter over onemile, proving beyond doubt the mare was out of allform, as she could certainly have given Vauban 10 lb. or more when thoroughly herself Thusended the connection between Mr. Sutton, General. :fiSrotbcr anb Sister 53 Pearson, and myself. Not so with my old friendJames Dover, who always maintained that they hadbehaved badly to me. What was worse, the ownerof Achievement would not, or did not, admit it,after it was so clearly proved that the filly was outof all form at Epsom. When I saw her walkinground the paddock at York in the August meetinglooking the picture of health, and with that beautifuljaunty walk of hers, I could hardly think it was thesame animal. However, she was just as well as shelooked, and she won the Great Yorkshire Stakes ina canter. As it turned out, I was correct in myjudgment, as Achievement beat me on Hermitin the St. Leger, and, with Kenyon up, won theDoncaster Cup two days later, again defeating Hermit, who was piloted by Jeffery. There never were two more different animals forbrother and sister than Lord Lyon and Achieve-ment. Both of their portraits, painted by HarryHall, are in front of me as I write, and sh
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