So happy was I, and proud,
For I was to run in the Derby
To startle the Epsom crowd.
They tried me with old Stargazer,
A good ’un, as hard as flint,
And I made him a hack at the distance,
So they backed me to win a mint.
They took me down to Epsom
On the 31st of May,
And no king on his throne was more happy