Captain Cuttle of the Godolphin Arabian sire line. Apart from Captain Cuttle, Hurry On sired the winners of seven Classics including the Derby winners Coronach and Call Boy. His most influential son was the Ascot Gold Cup winner Precipitation, who sired four classic winners. Captain Cuttle was named after the character in Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son". Like his sire, Captain Cuttle was trained throughout his career by Fred Darling at Beckhampton in Wiltshire, and was ridden in his most important races by the leading British jockey of the era Steve Donoghue. The colt was particularly devoted to his trainer, following him
Mrs. Bridge by a promise of certainties — domestic, social, cultural and sexual — which are never wholly realised and remain frustratingly elusive". "Mrs. Bridge" began as a short story, "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge", published in the Fall 1955 issues of "The Paris Review". Both "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge" were republished in the United States in 2005 by Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington, D.C. The fiftieth anniversary of the novel (in 2009) was celebrated with a special edition of the novel, with photographs by Laurie Simmons and an introduction by Mark Oppenheimer. Mrs. Bridge Mrs. Bridge is the debut novel