Chapter Six“You certainly had a good Ascot, my Lord!” Gerard Langston said, as the Earl tooled his horses through the traffic outside the entrance to the course.
The Earl did not reply and he went on,
“Three winners, including the Gold Cup, is as much as any racehorse owner could wish for.”
There was a note of envy in his voice which made the Earl say consolingly,
“The race in which your horse took part was one of the most exciting of the meeting.”
“It would hardly be described as being completely satisfactory,” Gerard replied, “considering that it was a dead heat.”
He paused to add,
“It means the prize money is halved – also the bets I laid on Firebird.”
“You will doubtless do better next year,” the Earl said. He spoke almost automatically as if his thoughts were elsewhere.
Altho
