New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-15

As will be IMAGINED. looked with some anxiety

As will be imagined, looked with some anxiety
for the telegram which would give US the result
of the City and Suburban. Natty went up TO see
the mare run in her first race OF importance; put
4 was unable to, so many of ours being on leave
at the time Mats wire gave" Cork Jacket, ;
Retrenchment, 2; Lady Comely 3. Your mare ran
we'll" Ran well, confound her! how did she
run well when she didn't even get place? That
was always their story, Mats and Pearce's; per-
haps they would have been less satisfied If they
had had TO paw her training bill at the end OF the
wear However, there was need to bother
about that for I had the money in hand, and,
moreover, she soon won a small race again at
Leicester and another at Derby. This was all
very we'll. but it would not enable me TO marry
Ella l wanted to pull off coup and have done
with it,
II appeared from Natty'S letter that the mare
did run extremely well at EPSON, although 1 had
been discontinued, finishing IN fact close up De-
hind the leaders. She was very nearly tirst-claSs
Natty said, and my turn would come before long
but must not let her win too many small races
lest she should attract too much attention from
the handicappers Acting on this idea we ran her
but few times during the summer months when
the ground was hard, hoping TO get her well IN
for some OF the autumn handcaps. 30 there was
no Ascot for me with Ella in the blue and gold
But, no matter; all | asplred TO now was the
winning Of some good handicap which would bring
me a couple of thousands or so to put in ELIAS
settlement
10 see very plainly what an awful mess should
have made of my uncle'S legacy but for his
superior knowledge. OF course L knew that the
classic races so to speak-DerDY, OAKS, leger.
and so on-were the great things to win, and did
not understand much about these handicaps
had heard our fellows talking away about cup
horses, handicap horses and paters, etc. and was
under the impression that the animals which ran
in handcaps were of quite an inferior class This,
NattV assured me- was by no means the case,
that nowadays horses of the highest class COM
pcted in such races, and cited lsOnomy, who had
made his reputation in them, and st. Gatien, o
Derby winner whose greatest performance had
been to carry high weight successfully in the
Cesarewitch: these he considered the two best
horses since Blair Athol. Skittles, he said, had
beaten n lot of useful animals In her first essay
with the cracks, including Pedometer her former
trial nag and il was quite on the cards that she
would one day pull off good race for me. In
this hope / TO keep ON running her at the
discretion of himself and Pearce
Meanwhile my relations with Ella remained in
statu quo I could seldom see her in conse-
auence Of the action taken by her parents, who
continued to press Dakyn upon her
with what seemed TO abominably
bad taste; for, though there might be
nothing against my cousin Richard, yet a girl of
Elias sense might be supposed to know with
she had already signifed her choice Neverthe-
less, il came hard on me that while he was nj.
lowed free access 70 my lady-lOve. | never
permitted TO see her. so that whatever communca.
tons passed between us were necessarily of q
semi-clandestine character, and this both irk-
some and undignifed to persons of full age and
possessed OF their fair share of common.sense.
certainly have endeavored to bring in q bill for
the limitation of parental authority in respect Of
grown-up daughters particularly annoyed
about IL for my mothers sake. who while fully
approving Of Ella resented this treatment of her
son as an indignity to his family. which she