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(Continued from Page 3) Winston Frost on Skypainter, who had won the race in 1938, was going well. The little Shea boy (Danny Shea’s son and a chip off the old block) was also in front of me. I never saw Mrs. Peal after the start. Nor did I see Capt. Kirkpatrick.
Across the run at the bottom of the hill I just closed my eyes and prayed. But the mare got across all right by guess and by God and by dint of a scramble. Then an up hill snake fence into a wheat field where we swung left around a flag and headed back to where we started.
As I came into the stone wall with the drop I slipped my reins all the way back to the knot, checked her and let her pop it. She landed nicely but to tell the truth, I thought she would never land as she sailed out on the other side, with the ground dropping sheer away. That drop was
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