Related article: ridden by his owner, wras second, and Spangle could only manage to get in fifth out of a field of seven starters. A council of war was called, and I was asked to ride The Dane in the 'Varsity Match ; his owner good-naturedly releasing me from riding Spang/e as previously arranged. On Thurs- day, March 26th, 1863, ^^^ "^ was run ; the following is a copy of the card : — DB FBAI]IB*B JLUTH0BI8BD CJLRP OP THB iylesbory iiistocntie Steepleebisfi. Ta Start and Finish on Mr, /. R. Fowlers Ptehendal Farm^ Ayiesbury, First Rack to Start at t.30 o'clock. A Match between the Univensity of Oxfonf anrf Cambridge for a cup value £y> ; 12 st. each. Oxford. Purchase Zidovudine Online (x) Mr. Frederic's bk. g. The Dane, blue and Vi»ci cap Mr. MoontairM I900.] REMINISCENCES OF OXFORD LIFE AND SPORT. 409 i; it r t ii) Mr. Rowe's br. g. Brown George, cherry, white belt, blue cap Owner. (3) Mr. Oakton's b. g. Reindeer, blue, white belt. blue cap Mr. Shore. Cambridge. (4) Mr. Wentworth's The Clown, light blue, black cap Owner. (5) Mr. Karrington's gr. g* Gorilla, light blue, Mr. Forrester. (6) Mr. Wentworth's br. g. Conqueror, light blue, cherry cap Mr. S. Oakton. The race was set down as Order Zidovudine the first event on the card for the second day of the meeting. Cam- bridge had all their money on The Clown, while Oxford placed their hope of success on Buy Cheap Zidovudine The Dane. It was known The Clown had a temper, but at the same time he was considered to have the highest credentials as a Buy Zidovudine Online race- horse. Brown George being second to The Dane gave Oxford a good indication of the form of their team. Reindeer was a capital hunter and was certain to jump the course. Gorilla was a common sort of horse, put in by Cambridge to make the running for Mr. Wentworth's pair and keep a watch on the best Oxford horse. My orders from old Charley Symonds, who nearly shook his head off in giving them (those who remember him will remember this peculiarity of his) were to just let The Dane go along steadily and then come away and win, telling me I could win as I liked. Weil, the flag fell and we were off, running all together over the first two fences, then Brown George tried to get out of the ruck, but the Cambridge men raced for the third fence where they all refused, and there was a bit of a scrimmage. The Dane got through and went on ; and I got half a field to the good. As it turned out, this was the crisis in the race. At such an early period of the "journey" ought I Order Zidovudine Online to have tried to cut the field down, or ought I to have let The Dane " just go along ?*' I have thought of it ever since, and beHeve if I had it to ride over again, and with my experience of the horse's merits, should most undoubtedly take very good care they had never caught me. As an amateur, and riding the horse for the first time, I thought I was going faster than I was. I appeal to all ex- perienced horsemen, what is harder than to be a judge of pace? My ** best friends" said I only cantered. At any rate, knowing what occurred after- wards, it lost me the race. The Cambridge men caught me again in two fields, but after passing the stand I was again leading at the same fence where the refusal took place. Gorilla closed with me, swerved right across and, catching The Dane on the shoulder, knocked him right on to his head into the ditch on the take-off side. By this perform- ance, before I could set him going again, the Cambridge trio were a field away, and, although I overhauled them at every stride, could only manage to run a miserable fourth I The other two Oxford horses never showed at all in the race, which I really had to fight out single-handed, and was terribly worsted in the attempt. A curious thing happened Buy Zidovudine to Cambridge, and they lost all their money though they won the match. The Clown shut up as he was running in to win, and, in spite of his owner's efforts (and Mr. FitzWilliam was a brilliant horseman), absolutely declined to gallop, and Sam Ashton had no other alternative than to go on and win with Conqueror I On returning Purchase Zidovudine to scale I at once laid a protest against the riding of Gorilla ; but the protest was with- drawn, Oxford took her beating, and '* Mr. Mountain*' was abused for his '' bad riding I" Such, I 4IO BAILY S MAGAZINE. [DsciMia believe, is the exact account of the race and the result, and I have no doubt that the good feeling that has since been con- tinuous in the cross-country com- petitions between the two Uni- versities is much to be attributed to the politic action of the stewards of the first match. The opportunities to learn to drive during the summer term were many, as four-horse drags ran regularly to the cricket-field and Bullingdon, and I picked up a good deal when Edward Taylor, who used to horse the drags as well as let out hunters, put the latter into the teams before the term began. I went up on pur- pose to get lessons from him and also do some reading before the end of the " Vac.,'* and I recollect starting from his stables in St. Aldates just below Christchurch gates, with one wheeler out of the lot that had seen harness before. I had the reins,' while Taylor