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FLYING SQUADRONS HAM AND EGGS On the eve of the Epsom Derby a wag sent the following epistle to the Sportsman kidding the patent feed ridiculoslty Now that we are hearing so much about the Derby candidate Azote being trained on dry uiilk I wonder whether any of your readers will remember the name of Flying Squadron a colt which liad been entered for the Derby of his year about twentyfive years ago and I think actually ran nowhere and afterwards passed into the posses slou of a Mr Ellis a retired solicitor who him ¬ self trained him at Epsom on ham and eggs at any rate it was so currently reported at the time and marvelous to relate he ran Flying Squadron1 not the solicitor In a selling race at Croydon ridden by a Jockey who nobody ever heard of be ¬ fore or since and won starting of course at about 20 to 1 x xDont Dont let this be he means of choking any of your readerBvotI Perrier Norman III tlangwm and
