‘If I do not find Watson, I may as well stay on the yacht and travel to the Mediterranean,’ he decided.
Then he remembered his racehorses and that there were several race meetings for which they were entered before Royal Ascot.
As he had missed winning the Grand National, he was all the more determined to achieve the Gold Cup.
He was quite certain he owned a horse which could win the race. If he could engage Nightingall, he would have the right jockey.
It was something he had not thought of until now. He wished he had spoken to Nightingall after the Grand National.
He expected quite a lot of owners would be trying to get him to ride for them, but he doubted if any of them would own better horses than his.
‘I must see to this matter the moment I return,’ he told himself. He hoped he w
