Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . r and I walkedafter him, he said to me: Geralds career 84 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER is over. No horse can go through suchan ordeal without cracking in some supper that evening was not a gayaffair. Puryear walked the stable-yard allnight. He came in about nine to tell methat Gerald had eaten all his feed; yethe shook his head sadly, and went outagain. The following day the horse hadwalking exercise, and on the day after hebled after a short gallop. Sir John Astley,who fancied the horse greatly and hadbacked him heavily to w
Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . r and I walkedafter him, he said to me: Geralds career 84 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER is over. No horse can go through suchan ordeal without cracking in some supper that evening was not a gayaffair. Puryear walked the stable-yard allnight. He came in about nine to tell methat Gerald had eaten all his feed; yethe shook his head sadly, and went outagain. The following day the horse hadwalking exercise, and on the day after hebled after a short gallop. Sir John Astley,who fancied the horse greatly and hadbacked him heavily to win the Derby, wasnear when the horse pulled up, and hispony beat the record to Newmarket withweight up. Gerald was scratched for the Two Thou-sand, and it was decided to start the half-trained Sachem instead. He ran a poorrace, as expected. I was now placed in apleasant position. Mr. Lorrillard stoodto win £21,200 on the Derby if Geraldshould win, and £20,100 if Sachem shouldfinish first. Each of them had been backedin the 100 to 1 book as yearlings, and ^iM. MR. PIERRL: IN FLORIDA IN 1893 HOW THE DERBY WAS LOST 85 much money had been put on since. Thefavorite had cracked, and I had no oppor-tunity to hedge a sixpence. We stoodto lose a large sum, and I wrote to , telling him the sorry plight wewere in. I begged the trainers to dotheir utmost with Sachem, but had littleconfidence in the horse. I felt that therough treatment he had received as atwo-year-old had not improved his courage,and I was not far wrong. The talent ofthe stable was now devoted to the prepara-tion of Sachem for the Derby. Not muchcould be done with Gerald, owing to hisbleeding. Fred Webb was engaged to rideSachem, and on the Sunday before therace we tried him behind the Ditch withMistake, with Webb up on Sachem. Heran a very good trial. Webb said it wasthe best Derby trial he had ridden sincethe one he had ridden on Doncaster. I hurried up to London, found our com-missioner, and ins
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