1 00:02:22,570 --> 00:02:23,570 It's no good. 2 00:02:24,190 --> 00:02:25,250 I'm going to have to go. 3 00:02:25,530 --> 00:02:26,670 Go? Go where? 4 00:02:29,010 --> 00:02:30,010 Kingspiren! 5 00:02:32,430 --> 00:02:36,370 Last evening, Inspector Gregory of the Devonshire Constabulary arrested well 6 00:02:36,370 --> 00:02:40,590 -known racing personality Fitzroy Simpson and charged him with the murder 7 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:42,130 trainer John Straker. 8 00:02:42,450 --> 00:02:43,450 Come in! 9 00:02:45,550 --> 00:02:48,130 Two more telegrams, Mr. Holmes? 10 00:02:48,530 --> 00:02:49,690 Thank you, Mrs. Hodgson. 11 00:02:50,190 --> 00:02:52,630 You've been bombarded with these the last couple of days. 12 00:02:52,850 --> 00:02:53,890 Another one from Inspector Gregory. 13 00:02:55,690 --> 00:02:56,850 And one from Colonel Roth. 14 00:02:57,050 --> 00:02:58,370 Ah, that's the horse's owner. 15 00:02:58,670 --> 00:02:59,670 Thank you, my dear. 16 00:03:01,630 --> 00:03:07,870 Watson, I have made a blunder, which I am afraid is a more common occurrence 17 00:03:07,870 --> 00:03:11,330 than anyone would think, who only knew me through your memoirs. 18 00:03:11,570 --> 00:03:15,090 And the fact is that I could not believe that so remarkable a horse as 19 00:03:15,090 --> 00:03:19,510 Silverblaze could disappear, especially in the seclusion of somewhere like... 20 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,640 The north of Dartmoor. From hour to hour I'm expected to hear that the abductor 21 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:26,200 was the murder of John Straker and the horse had been found, but that doesn't 22 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,800 seem to be the case. I could be happy to go with you. 23 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,920 Now, tell us, Doc, if I should not be in the way. 24 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,160 Oh, my dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming. 25 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:45,740 I'm sure your time will not be misplanned. The case promises to be 26 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:46,740 unique. 27 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,380 We can just catch our trains at Paddington. And Watson, would you be so 28 00:03:51,380 --> 00:03:52,380 to bring your field glasses? 29 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Tickets, please. 30 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Thank you, Inspector. 31 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,400 Thank you. 32 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:48,840 Watson, we're going well. 33 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:55,180 Our speed at present is 53 .5 miles an hour. 34 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:59,360 I've not observed the quarter -mile post. 35 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:00,920 Nor have I. 36 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,660 But the telegraph posts on this line are 60 yards apart. 37 00:05:07,780 --> 00:05:08,900 Calculation is a simple one. 38 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:20,080 Has that remarkably colored sporting paper anything to say on the subject of 39 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:21,080 force? 40 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:22,780 Oh. 41 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:25,180 Yes. Yes. 42 00:05:30,510 --> 00:05:31,510 Here we are. 43 00:05:32,090 --> 00:05:33,090 Silver Blaze. 44 00:05:34,190 --> 00:05:37,090 Silver Blaze is from Isonomy Stock. 45 00:05:37,390 --> 00:05:41,290 Isonomy. And holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. 46 00:05:42,330 --> 00:05:47,230 He's now in his fifth year and has bought in turn each of the prizes of the 47 00:05:47,230 --> 00:05:49,590 to Colonel Ross, his fortunate owner. 48 00:05:50,910 --> 00:05:55,630 At the time of the catastrophe, he was first favourite to the Wessex Cup. 49 00:05:55,970 --> 00:05:58,370 The odds quoted being two to one against. 50 00:05:59,740 --> 00:06:03,960 He's always been a prime favorite of the racing public and has never yet 51 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:04,960 disappointed them. 52 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,840 In spite of the unfavorable price, a great deal of money has been placed upon 53 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:14,580 it. So it is obvious, therefore, that there are many people with the strongest 54 00:06:14,580 --> 00:06:19,780 interest in preventing Silver Blade from being there at the fall of the flag. 55 00:06:34,190 --> 00:06:35,450 please, because this is rather a good view. 56 00:06:37,350 --> 00:06:40,690 Now, that's King's Highland over there, Mr. Holmes. 57 00:06:41,190 --> 00:06:43,490 You know, my training stable where the missing horse was kept. 58 00:06:43,890 --> 00:06:46,690 What exactly does your establishment consist of, Colonel Ross? 59 00:06:47,430 --> 00:06:53,410 Well, there's a trainer's house where poor Straker lived with his wife and a 60 00:06:53,410 --> 00:06:55,890 maidservant. How long had he been with you, sir? 61 00:06:56,210 --> 00:07:00,410 Oh, five years as jockey until he got too heavy for the weighing chair. 62 00:07:00,730 --> 00:07:03,290 Then seven years as my trainer. 63 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:05,840 Yes, he was a first -class man. 64 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,640 And I presume the fables are beyond. 65 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,660 Yes, yes, not a big yard. It's a good one. 66 00:07:12,340 --> 00:07:14,800 My style is quality, not quantity. 67 00:07:15,140 --> 00:07:18,460 As anyone connected with the turf will tell you, Mr. Holmes. Yes, thank you, 68 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,280 Inspector. You see, at the moment, I've only five horses in the yard. 69 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,280 I see you have two of them entered for the Wessex Cup, Colonel Ross. That's 70 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:27,939 right, yes. 71 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:29,420 Silver Blaze and Bayard. 72 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,420 But between ourselves, Bayard is intended for a pacemaker. 73 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,340 Well, with such valuable animal under his charge, I imagine your trainer, Mr. 74 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:39,880 Straker, must have taken some precautions. 75 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:41,340 Oh, yes, indeed. 76 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,440 Three stable lads live with the horses. 77 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,300 And after dark, one of the lads is always on duty in the stables while the 78 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:50,400 two sleep above in the loft. 79 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,660 Is that another training stable over there? 80 00:07:55,180 --> 00:07:56,500 Yes, that's Mapleton. 81 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,660 That's Lord Backwater's yard. 82 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,620 Oh, Lord Backwater. Lord Backwater owns Desborough, the second favorite for the 83 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:05,320 Wethers' Cup. This is not a bad horse. 84 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,340 Not in the same class as Silver Blaze. 85 00:08:08,940 --> 00:08:14,880 A fellow called Silas Brown trains for Backwater. I can't stick to the fellow 86 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,040 himself. Nor could Straker come to that. 87 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:19,900 It's a natural rivalry, I presume. 88 00:08:20,580 --> 00:08:21,620 Rather more than that. 89 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:24,600 Shall we drive on? Yes. 90 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,140 All right, Baines. 91 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,400 Inspector Gregory. 92 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,380 Are there any further developments as to the whereabouts of the horse? 93 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:36,780 Nothing at all. 94 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:39,780 We have made very little progress in that direction. 95 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:45,160 I can't imagine how a horse like Silver Blaze could go missing for so long in a 96 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,520 place like this. Nor can I. 97 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,360 I must tell you, Mr. Holmes, that at first I was not at all taken with 98 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,740 Gregory's suggestion that you should be asked to come down here. 99 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,940 Because I don't like amateurs, you see. 100 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,460 But you did send me a telegram, Colonel. 101 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:05,720 Well, no one else seems to be able to find my horse. 102 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:11,140 If you ask me, it's these damned gypsies wandering all over the moor. 103 00:09:11,820 --> 00:09:13,800 It's a perfect scandal. I've said so for years. 104 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:18,040 My men have seen every group of gypsies on Dartmoor in the last two days, 105 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:19,139 Colonel. 106 00:09:19,140 --> 00:09:22,360 And searched every stable yard, quarry and cave in South Devon. 107 00:09:23,180 --> 00:09:24,480 It's an absolute mystery. 108 00:10:02,090 --> 00:10:04,090 I expect a miracle from you, Mr. Holmes. 109 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:20,390 Inspector Gregory, my friends at Scotland Yard tell me that you're 110 00:10:20,390 --> 00:10:23,550 making a reputation for yourself in the English detective service. 111 00:10:24,330 --> 00:10:26,710 I'm a keen student of your methods too, Mr. Holmes. 112 00:10:27,090 --> 00:10:29,890 I have the two principal which is waiting for you. Thank you. 113 00:11:24,810 --> 00:11:25,810 Who are they? 114 00:11:26,230 --> 00:11:29,410 Edith Baxter, the maid, and Hunter, the stable boy, who was on duty on Monday 115 00:11:29,410 --> 00:11:30,410 night. 116 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:42,430 It was just a few minutes after nine o 'clock, sir. 117 00:11:44,230 --> 00:11:50,410 I was carrying Mr. Hunter's supper across from the house. But, Mr. Baxter, 118 00:11:50,410 --> 00:11:51,630 did the supper consist of? 119 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:54,020 It was a dish of curried mutton, sir. 120 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,660 Suddenly I heard a man's voice. 121 00:12:38,580 --> 00:12:40,600 Dinah, give me a turn. I can tell you, sir. 122 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Excuse me, miss. 123 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,160 What do you want, sir? 124 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,180 Can you tell me where I am? 125 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:52,000 I'd almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor when I saw the light. 126 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,240 This is King's Pile and Training Stable, sir. 127 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,120 What a stroke of luck. 128 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,100 I understand there's a stable lad. 129 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,600 Sleeps here at night. 130 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,000 No doubt that's his supper you have there. 131 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,100 I'm sure you wouldn't be too proud to earn yourself the price of a new dress, 132 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:14,240 would you? 133 00:13:15,260 --> 00:13:16,560 See, the boy has this tonight. 134 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,980 And you shall have the prettiest frock money can buy. I can. 135 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:23,700 Ned! 136 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,040 Ned! 137 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,840 Ned! 138 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:28,920 It's a man. Stop me out there. 139 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,420 I'm ever so frightened. 140 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,439 What do you want? 141 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:32,600 He asked after you. 142 00:13:32,980 --> 00:13:34,400 He asked me to give you something. 143 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:35,760 What was it? 144 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:36,880 I don't know. 145 00:13:37,060 --> 00:13:38,060 It was white. 146 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:39,780 Where is he now? He's gone. 147 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,600 We best cut back up the house, quick. Tell the governor. Yes, ma 'am. 148 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,440 Good evening. 149 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:07,280 I want a word with you. 150 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:08,880 What business have you here? 151 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,120 It's a business that may put something in your pocket, my lad. 152 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,000 Now, you've two horses entered in the Wessex Cup. 153 00:14:17,020 --> 00:14:18,020 Silverblaze and Bayard. 154 00:14:18,980 --> 00:14:21,180 Let me have the straight tip and you won't be the loser. 155 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,360 Is it the fact that at the weight, Bayard can give the other 100 yards in 156 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,660 furlongs? We don't have any damn touch around here. 157 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,820 The governor and the others came down soon enough. 158 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,120 We found neither sight nor a sound of the man. One moment. 159 00:14:51,020 --> 00:14:55,200 When you let the dog out, did you leave the door open behind you? Oh, excellent. 160 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,560 Excellent. Just the point I was getting to make. 161 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,220 I locked the door behind me, sir. I swear it. Good luck. 162 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:09,720 Does Fitzroy Simpson admit to all this? 163 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:11,400 He denies nothing. 164 00:15:14,860 --> 00:15:17,180 He says he came for information. 165 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:18,840 What about the white paper? 166 00:15:19,060 --> 00:15:20,780 He says it was a five -pound note. 167 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,200 What happened next? 168 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:35,180 Well, sir, it was about dawn when the mistress came into my bedroom and told 169 00:15:35,180 --> 00:15:36,180 to come with her. 170 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,740 Well, wouldn't she want? She'd found Mrs. Drake's bed empty. 171 00:15:51,620 --> 00:15:54,160 Heavens! The horse is gone. 172 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,780 And the bridle. 173 00:16:02,740 --> 00:16:04,700 Ned! Wake up! 174 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Wake the boys. 175 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:07,200 Ned! 176 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:28,600 He was dead, sir. 177 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:33,060 He's dead. 178 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,300 It's all knocked in. 179 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:10,960 It was the terrible blow on the head from some blunt instrument that had 180 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:11,960 him. 181 00:18:12,820 --> 00:18:15,960 It was clear that he had defended himself most vigorously. 182 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,120 The blood -stained knife. 183 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,400 As to the wound on the thigh, who can tell? 184 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,480 Well, it is possible that the wound on the thigh could have been caused by the 185 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,720 strength of fowl. The lad here was drugged. 186 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:32,200 Appreciable quantities of powdered opium were found in his curry. 187 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:35,400 Did all the household eat the same dish? 188 00:18:35,620 --> 00:18:36,620 Yes, sir. 189 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,800 I made it myself and served it. 190 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,080 This black and red scarf. 191 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:47,700 The gentleman was wearing that scarf when he talked to me. 192 00:18:48,020 --> 00:18:49,840 I'd swear that on the Bible, sir. 193 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Thank you. 194 00:19:17,070 --> 00:19:20,630 My theory is that Simpson was under some strong obligation to nobble or 195 00:19:20,630 --> 00:19:23,690 otherwise incapacitate this horse so that he would be unable to run in the 196 00:19:23,690 --> 00:19:24,690 Weflex Cup. 197 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:27,990 Clever move, that, putting opium in the boy's food, and easy enough through that 198 00:19:27,990 --> 00:19:28,990 window. Yes. 199 00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:30,250 Then it was simple. 200 00:19:30,810 --> 00:19:33,790 He'd obtained a duplicate key, led out the horse. 201 00:19:34,350 --> 00:19:37,570 It was his bad luck that Straker was alert enough to catch him up on the 202 00:19:38,110 --> 00:19:39,910 In the struggle, the horse bolted. 203 00:19:40,150 --> 00:19:43,170 There's no proof that Simpson killed Straker, is there? 204 00:19:43,590 --> 00:19:45,150 The evidence against him is very strong. 205 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,440 He was undoubtedly here that night on some devious business. He poisoned the 206 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,300 stable lad. He had in his hand a heavy stick weighted with lead, and his scarf 207 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:53,480 was found in the dead man's hand. 208 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:56,280 And he went pale as death when I confronted him with that fact. 209 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:58,760 I really think we have enough to go before a jury. 210 00:19:59,140 --> 00:20:00,460 No, no, no. 211 00:20:01,340 --> 00:20:04,040 Inspector, that's how the council would turn it all to rags. 212 00:20:05,620 --> 00:20:07,640 Has a duplicate key been found in his possession? 213 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:12,520 No. But what chemist sold him the pounded opium? And above all, how could 214 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,120 stranger in this district, hide a horse? 215 00:20:14,410 --> 00:20:18,130 I agree the evidence is circumstantial. 216 00:20:18,470 --> 00:20:21,130 But I think the net is drawn pretty tightly around Fitzroy Simpson. 217 00:20:21,570 --> 00:20:22,970 And I believe he is our man. 218 00:20:25,130 --> 00:20:26,290 What sort of a fellow is he? 219 00:20:27,170 --> 00:20:28,450 Why would he do such a thing? 220 00:20:29,250 --> 00:20:31,870 Fitzroy Simpson is a man of excellent birth and dedication. 221 00:20:32,970 --> 00:20:36,330 Unfortunately, he has squandered a fortune on the turf, which has put him 222 00:20:36,330 --> 00:20:38,770 hands of moneylenders and unscrupulous bookmakers. 223 00:20:38,990 --> 00:20:41,550 Plenty of those sharks in the racing world. I don't know that you're a 224 00:20:41,550 --> 00:20:42,550 man. 225 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:46,260 Occasional flutter? 226 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,260 I presume an inventory has been made of what Strager had in his pockets at the 227 00:20:52,260 --> 00:20:53,019 time of his death? 228 00:20:53,020 --> 00:20:55,800 I have the things themselves in the sitting room, if you would care to see 229 00:21:17,919 --> 00:21:19,100 I think her London. 230 00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:24,620 For the bloodstains, I presume this is the knife that was found at the dead 231 00:21:24,620 --> 00:21:25,419 man's craft. 232 00:21:25,420 --> 00:21:26,420 Yes, indeed. 233 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:27,860 This is more in your line, Doctor. 234 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,400 Yes, it's what we call a cataract knife. 235 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,020 A very delicate blade devised for very delicate work. Strange thing for a man 236 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:38,560 take on so rough an expedition, Holmes. 237 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:43,820 Especially as it wouldn't shut in his pocket. The tip was guarded by a disc of 238 00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:47,400 cork, which we found beside the body. You impress me, Inspector. Thank you. 239 00:21:47,740 --> 00:21:49,400 Mrs. Drager said it was on the dressing table. 240 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,000 It was probably the nearest thing to hand at the time. I see. 241 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:54,160 I see. 242 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,640 Corn letters, Bill. 243 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:00,020 Instructions for Colonel Ross. 244 00:22:01,340 --> 00:22:02,360 And what have we here? 245 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,140 A millimetre count. 246 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,100 £37 .15 from a Madame de Zurier of Bond Street, London. 247 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,960 To a Mr. William Derbyshire. Mrs. Drager tells us that Derbyshire was a friend 248 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,300 of her husband's and occasionally had his letters addressed here. 249 00:22:18,330 --> 00:22:19,330 22 guineas. 250 00:22:20,370 --> 00:22:22,450 Somewhat heavy for a single costume. 251 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:25,370 Mrs. Darwish had rather expensive taste. 252 00:22:25,690 --> 00:22:26,690 Yes. 253 00:22:26,970 --> 00:22:30,130 Well, there appears to be nothing more to learn here, Inspector. Shall we move 254 00:22:30,130 --> 00:22:31,129 on to the theme of the crime? 255 00:22:31,130 --> 00:22:32,130 Yes, of course. 256 00:22:38,430 --> 00:22:39,430 How do you look? 257 00:22:44,070 --> 00:22:45,070 Have you got them, Inspector? 258 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:48,400 Is there any more news? 259 00:22:49,420 --> 00:22:50,900 I'm afraid not, Mrs. Strager. 260 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:55,080 But Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson have come down from London to help us. 261 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,140 They assure you we are doing everything possible. 262 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,900 I wish you good luck, Mr. Holmes. 263 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,440 Well, thank you, madam. 264 00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:04,540 And I commiserations on your great loss. 265 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:11,840 Look, surely we met at a garden party in Plymouth some time ago. 266 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:14,360 No, sir. 267 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:15,620 You are mistaken. 268 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,360 No, do you know, I could have sworn it. 269 00:23:18,380 --> 00:23:23,500 You're a costume of dove -coloured silk with ostrich feather trimming. 270 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,340 I've never had such a dress, sir. 271 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,040 A quite fair visit, thank you. 272 00:23:38,460 --> 00:23:40,500 That is the bush where the coat was hanging. 273 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,360 What was the weather like? Oh, calm. 274 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,560 Bit of rain about. 275 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,120 And the coat was not blown against the bush, but placed there? Yes, it was 276 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:49,120 placed there. Inspector. 277 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:51,160 No, no, no! 278 00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:56,760 So many people have trampled around this land. 279 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,620 There have been many people here. 280 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:06,480 That piece of matting has been placed there, and we have all stood upon that. 281 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:07,620 Not the general public. 282 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,820 I have in this bag one of the boots John Stryker wore. 283 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,840 One of Fitzroy Simpson's shoes. 284 00:24:16,820 --> 00:24:19,220 And a cart horseshoe of silver blade. 285 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:20,600 Thank you, Inspector. 286 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,280 Burnt wax, best of. 287 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,440 Can't believe it. 288 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,240 I cannot understand how I came to overlook them. 289 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,280 They were invisible, buried in the mud. 290 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,420 I only saw them because I was looking for them. 291 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:45,640 What? 292 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,240 You expected to find them? 293 00:25:47,780 --> 00:25:48,820 I thought it not unlikely. 294 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,200 I'm afraid there are no more tracks. 295 00:25:54,860 --> 00:25:57,320 I've examined the ground for a hundred yards in every direction. 296 00:25:58,540 --> 00:25:59,540 What a pleasant evening. 297 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,180 I think I'll take a walk, switch my legs. 298 00:26:02,380 --> 00:26:03,420 Watson? Yes, indeed. 299 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:04,980 I'll take this, for luck. 300 00:26:05,220 --> 00:26:08,120 I have some work to do in the house. Then Colonel Ross is coming to take us 301 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:09,120 to Tavistock. 302 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,280 Suppose his silver blades broke away. 303 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:04,060 I mean, where would he have gone? 304 00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:07,960 If he'd run loose on the moor, he'd have surely been seen by now. 305 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,580 Perhaps the gypsy theory is correct. 306 00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:11,860 No, no, no, no, no. 307 00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:16,820 A horse is a most gregarious creature. 308 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:23,520 Now, he did not go back to King's Pylons, to his own stable, so he must 309 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,260 gone to Melton. 310 00:27:29,130 --> 00:27:30,690 Now, let us use that as a working hypothesis. 311 00:27:32,530 --> 00:27:37,150 The ground around here is very hard and dry, but over there, in that hollow, it 312 00:27:37,150 --> 00:27:38,590 must have been very wet on Monday night. 313 00:27:41,010 --> 00:27:42,550 If our supposition is correct, 314 00:27:43,410 --> 00:27:45,530 he must have crossed it. 315 00:28:13,450 --> 00:28:14,630 Why, George, look at that. 316 00:28:17,930 --> 00:28:22,690 You see, the value of imagination is the one quality which Inspector Gregory 317 00:28:22,690 --> 00:28:23,690 lacks. 318 00:28:23,890 --> 00:28:27,950 We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find 319 00:28:27,950 --> 00:28:29,510 ourselves justified. Let us proceed. 320 00:29:13,550 --> 00:29:17,530 And man turned. 321 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,360 Haven't you got eyes in your head? 322 00:29:45,980 --> 00:29:47,360 I only wanted to ask you a question. 323 00:29:47,860 --> 00:29:51,220 Should I be too early to see Mr. Silas Brown if I was to call around here at 5 324 00:29:51,220 --> 00:29:52,220 .30 tomorrow morning? 325 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,220 I shouldn't be speaking to you by rate. 326 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,840 Mr. 327 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,860 Brown's the early bird round here, all right. 328 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,550 Darshan. What are you doing gossiping with strangers? 329 00:30:15,810 --> 00:30:16,810 Fear about your business. 330 00:30:19,470 --> 00:30:21,530 Now, what the devil do you two want round here? 331 00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:23,610 Just a few minutes of your time, Mr. Brown. 332 00:30:23,810 --> 00:30:27,890 Be off with you or you'll find the dog on your heels. 333 00:30:28,750 --> 00:30:32,350 Why should I talk every gad about stranger on the moor? 334 00:30:32,570 --> 00:30:38,050 It may save you instant dismissal from Lord Backwater's service 335 00:30:38,050 --> 00:30:40,890 and a stiffish prison sentence. 336 00:31:03,190 --> 00:31:10,130 Early Tuesday morning, you were about the yard as usual, when you 337 00:31:10,130 --> 00:31:13,750 saw a horse on the moor. 338 00:31:16,270 --> 00:31:19,450 When you approached it, you realised that it wasn't a strange horse at all, 339 00:31:19,450 --> 00:31:21,690 one that you knew very well. 340 00:31:23,630 --> 00:31:28,610 Your first instinct was to lead Silver... Silver Blaze. 341 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,760 Back to Kingspireland. But then the devil put other ideas into your head. 342 00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:37,980 Here's a chance to make a great deal of money. 343 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,880 It occurred to you that if you were to hide, though... 344 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:50,620 You've been watching me, 345 00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:52,020 haven't you? 346 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,300 You've been spying on me, sir. 347 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:11,480 What you want. 348 00:32:20,620 --> 00:32:27,360 If it's money you want, you shall have it. 349 00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:38,240 You will do exactly as I tell you. 350 00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:54,400 A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas 351 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,780 I've seldom met with. He has the horse, then? Of course. 352 00:32:57,580 --> 00:32:59,280 But his stables have been searched. 353 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:01,580 An old faker like him knows many a dodge. 354 00:33:03,860 --> 00:33:07,420 Watson, I don't know whether you observed, but Colonel Ross's manner to 355 00:33:07,420 --> 00:33:08,420 been somewhat cavalier. 356 00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:11,540 I'm inclined to have a little amusement at his expense. 357 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,440 Say nothing to him about the horse. I shall say nothing without your 358 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Splendid. 359 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,980 We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday 360 00:33:21,980 --> 00:33:24,040 within a mile of where the murder took place. 361 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,780 Fitzroy Simpson may well have an understanding with them over hiding the 362 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:35,720 Nevertheless, I think I owe it to the public to remove Silver Blaze's name 363 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,000 the entrance for the cup. No, certainly not. Colonel, I should let the name 364 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,940 stand. But I've already withdrawn by art. But I have every hope that Silver 365 00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:46,460 Blaze will start on Saturday. Have your jockey in readiness. 366 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,680 I'm very glad to have your opinion, sir. 367 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,900 That is a minor point, of course, compared with the question of who killed 368 00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:59,300 Straker. Doubtless you will be devoting yourself to that problem. 369 00:33:59,540 --> 00:34:04,160 On the contrary, Dr Watson and I are taking the night express to London. 370 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,860 We've had the most charming little breath of your country air. 371 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:14,699 So you've despaired already of arresting the murderer of poor John Straker? 372 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,659 There are certain grave difficulties. 373 00:34:19,139 --> 00:34:20,600 Do you have a photograph of Straker? 374 00:34:22,020 --> 00:34:23,020 Thank you, Inspector. 375 00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:24,760 I am quite ready now for Tavistock. 376 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Linger. 377 00:34:30,139 --> 00:34:34,480 I must say I'm rather disappointed in our London consultant. 378 00:34:35,139 --> 00:34:37,120 I don't see that we're any further than when he came. 379 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,320 At least you have his assurance, Colonel, that your horse will run. 380 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:41,980 Oh, yes, I have his assurance. 381 00:34:42,889 --> 00:34:45,929 I should prefer to have the horse. I think you should heed Mr. Holmes' 382 00:34:46,070 --> 00:34:47,070 Colonel. 383 00:34:48,389 --> 00:34:49,389 Well, I shall have a seat. 384 00:35:02,130 --> 00:35:03,770 Excuse me, who looks after these sheep? 385 00:35:04,110 --> 00:35:05,110 I do, sir. 386 00:35:05,810 --> 00:35:07,210 Have you noted something amiss for the night? 387 00:35:08,590 --> 00:35:09,590 No, sir. 388 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,680 Well, it's not much account, but three of them have gone lame. 389 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:21,040 A long shot, Watson. 390 00:35:21,260 --> 00:35:22,520 A very long shot. After you. 391 00:35:23,380 --> 00:35:27,680 Inspector, I'd like to recommend to you the singular epidemic among the sheep. 392 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,920 You rarely consider that to be important. 393 00:35:31,820 --> 00:35:32,820 Exceedingly so. 394 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:35,360 All right, Burns. 395 00:35:47,370 --> 00:35:50,570 Is there any other point to which you wish to draw my attention, Mr. Holmes? 396 00:35:52,890 --> 00:35:56,330 To the curious incident of the dog in the night. 397 00:35:57,310 --> 00:35:59,050 But the dog did nothing in the night time. 398 00:36:00,290 --> 00:36:01,630 That is the curious incident. 399 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,120 Well, 400 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,340 the devil is my horse, Holmes. No, no, no, no, no. Where's the devil, is he? 401 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:39,020 I suppose, Colonel, that you wouldn't recognise him if you saw him. 402 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:40,760 No, my own horse. 403 00:36:42,620 --> 00:36:45,900 I've been on the turf for 20 years and I've never been on such a damn fool 404 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:46,900 question before. 405 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,880 Why, try it, Silver Blaze. 406 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:52,480 With a white star on his forehead and mottled hind leg. 407 00:36:54,750 --> 00:36:58,290 realize that if my horse doesn't run, quite apart from being lynched by the 408 00:36:58,290 --> 00:36:59,850 crowd, I shall be up before the stewards. 409 00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:04,810 Probably warned off every racecourse in England for life. Reputation ruined. 410 00:37:05,210 --> 00:37:08,870 Ah, let us hope it does not come to that, if Dr. Watson. 411 00:37:12,570 --> 00:37:18,750 And this, Colonel, is your horse. 412 00:37:20,510 --> 00:37:22,130 That's not my horse, Holmes! 413 00:37:24,330 --> 00:37:25,330 God, man, what have you done? 414 00:37:36,830 --> 00:37:37,830 There, Colonel. 415 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:56,080 is your silver blaze. 416 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,460 I found him in the hands of a faker and brought him to the course just as he 417 00:38:02,460 --> 00:38:03,460 was. 418 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,320 Good heavens. 419 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,320 You take my breath away, Mr. Holmes. 420 00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:33,040 You've done me a great service by recovering my horse. You'd do me a 421 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:37,520 still if you could lay your hand on the murderer of John Straker. I've done it, 422 00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:38,660 sir. 423 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:39,840 What? 424 00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:43,060 What's all this about if you've got him? Where is he, then? He's here. 425 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:44,960 Here? Oh, well. 426 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,200 Somebody who's not present at this very moment. 427 00:40:49,620 --> 00:40:53,780 Yes, I quite recognise that I'm under obligations to you, Mr Holmes, but this 428 00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:55,700 either a very bad joke or an insult. 429 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,300 The real murderer, Colonel, is standing immediately behind you. 430 00:41:00,980 --> 00:41:03,600 But the horse... Yes, the horse. 431 00:41:05,220 --> 00:41:11,660 And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done entirely in self 432 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:17,220 And that John Strako was a man quite unworthy. 433 00:41:27,859 --> 00:41:29,020 Number four, third. Winner. 434 00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:51,820 Come on, Rod. 435 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,680 Yes. 436 00:41:54,620 --> 00:41:55,620 Yes, thank you, Dan. 437 00:42:12,180 --> 00:42:14,340 Thank you very much. 438 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:20,860 Number 12. 439 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:22,100 Number 12. 440 00:42:57,450 --> 00:43:00,390 And when we came down to Kings Park and I was convinced that Fitzroy Simpson was 441 00:43:00,390 --> 00:43:04,670 the true culprit, all the newspaper and police reports seemed to point to it. 442 00:43:05,630 --> 00:43:11,390 It was only when I entered the trainer's house that the immense significance of 443 00:43:11,390 --> 00:43:16,150 the colored mutton occurred to me. I confess that even now I cannot see how 444 00:43:16,150 --> 00:43:17,150 happens. 445 00:43:17,430 --> 00:43:20,030 Powdered opium, Colonel, is by no means tasteful. 446 00:43:21,230 --> 00:43:22,230 I am, correct? 447 00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:24,250 Oh, quite correct. The, uh... 448 00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:29,090 Flavour is not detectable, but it is perceptible. Were it mixed with an 449 00:43:29,090 --> 00:43:32,330 dish, the eater would undoubtedly detect it, but would probably eat no more. 450 00:43:33,050 --> 00:43:35,730 Curry was exactly the medium with which to disguise the taste. 451 00:43:36,870 --> 00:43:40,110 So it must have been Spraker or his wife. 452 00:43:40,410 --> 00:43:41,410 Exactly. 453 00:43:42,910 --> 00:43:45,110 Because I remember you spoke of a dog. 454 00:43:52,010 --> 00:43:54,250 The dog that didn't bark in the night. 455 00:43:55,690 --> 00:44:00,270 Well, someone had been into the stable and taken out the horse, and the dog had 456 00:44:00,270 --> 00:44:04,290 not barked. So, obviously, this midnight visitor was someone the dog be will. 457 00:44:04,510 --> 00:44:08,890 I wasn't really convinced that it was Draco. For what purpose should he take 458 00:44:08,890 --> 00:44:11,750 the horse and drug his own stable? 459 00:44:12,130 --> 00:44:16,790 To be honest, well, obviously, there have been cases before now where 460 00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:18,370 have made great sums of money by... 461 00:44:18,780 --> 00:44:21,860 laying against their own horses and then preventing them from winning. 462 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:25,080 Sometimes you get a pulling jockey, I will say that. 463 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,680 Sometimes by shorter and more subtle means. 464 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:39,060 This singular knife which was 465 00:44:39,060 --> 00:44:45,900 found in the dead man's hand and which no sane man would use as a weapon. 466 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,480 Doctor? Yes, only... 467 00:44:47,950 --> 00:44:49,730 Only used in the most delicate operations. 468 00:44:50,370 --> 00:44:53,290 It was used for a very delicate operation, that line. 469 00:44:57,610 --> 00:44:58,610 Excuse me. 470 00:45:03,070 --> 00:45:09,310 As you know, Colonel, with your wide knowledge of turf matters, 471 00:45:09,590 --> 00:45:15,010 that it is possible to make a slight nick in the haughty attendant. 472 00:45:16,970 --> 00:45:18,430 And do it subcutaneously. 473 00:45:29,650 --> 00:45:33,810 Any slight lameness will be put down to a strain in training or a bruise, never 474 00:45:33,810 --> 00:45:34,810 foul play. 475 00:45:35,590 --> 00:45:36,610 Villain and damned! 476 00:45:38,730 --> 00:45:41,370 Not an operation to be done in the stable. No food for me. 477 00:45:43,230 --> 00:45:45,110 So sensitive a creature... 478 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,480 would arouse the soundest of sleepers. 479 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,860 I've been blind, and Gregory too. 480 00:45:50,340 --> 00:45:53,220 Of course, that's why he needed the candle and struck the match. 481 00:45:55,500 --> 00:46:00,680 When I examined Straker's belongings, I was fortunate to discover not only the 482 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:02,460 method of the crime, but also the motive. 483 00:46:05,580 --> 00:46:08,780 Most men do not carry other people's bills in their pockets. 484 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,180 From this I concluded that Straker was leading a double life. 485 00:46:13,780 --> 00:46:18,660 The nature of the bill, It shows that there was a woman in the case, and a 486 00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:19,660 of expensive taste. 487 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,620 Liberal though you are with your servants, I'm sure they're not able to 488 00:46:25,620 --> 00:46:30,100 22 guinea walking dresses for their ladies. 489 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,460 Mrs. Traker never had one by her own admission. 490 00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:40,760 When I visited Bond Street the other morning, I showed Madame Lesvurier this 491 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,820 photograph of Straker. 492 00:46:47,660 --> 00:46:53,400 She recognised him as an extremely good customer called William Derbyshire. 493 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:00,740 He was a very dashing young wife with a partiality for expensive dresses. Women. 494 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:02,600 Women! 495 00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:07,980 I suppose it was she who plunged him head over heels into debt and so led him 496 00:47:07,980 --> 00:47:09,280 this miserable plot. 497 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,160 Straker led out Silver Blaze. 498 00:47:16,310 --> 00:47:22,030 into the hollow, where his light would not be visible from the yard. 499 00:47:25,990 --> 00:47:28,310 Simpson, in his flight, had dropped his scarf. 500 00:47:30,030 --> 00:47:36,170 Straker picked it up, with the idea, no doubt, that he might use it in securing 501 00:47:36,170 --> 00:47:37,170 the horse's leg. 502 00:47:41,050 --> 00:47:45,270 Straker was able to light his candle, but just... 503 00:47:45,710 --> 00:47:51,550 As he had the knife ready, the horse lashed out and caught him a fatal blow 504 00:47:51,550 --> 00:47:52,550 the forehead. 505 00:47:56,630 --> 00:47:57,630 Why? 506 00:48:04,490 --> 00:48:06,290 Why did the horse lash out so thoroughly? 507 00:48:06,990 --> 00:48:09,150 Frightened by the candle, the knife? 508 00:48:09,490 --> 00:48:12,210 Well, animals have a strange instinct. 509 00:48:13,450 --> 00:48:16,450 They seem to know when some mischief is intended. 510 00:48:22,750 --> 00:48:28,550 My final shot, I must confess, was a long one. 511 00:48:30,250 --> 00:48:36,130 It struck me that such an astute man as Straker would not undertake this tendon 512 00:48:36,130 --> 00:48:38,070 -nicking without a little practice. 513 00:48:39,890 --> 00:48:40,890 Man! 514 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:50,720 Wonderful, my dear. 515 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,220 Now, you've explained all but one thing. 516 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:58,620 The horse. Now, where? 517 00:49:00,460 --> 00:49:06,160 Well, I think we must have a little amnesty in that direction, Colonel. 518 00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:12,940 It bolted and was looked after by one of your neighbours. 519 00:49:25,770 --> 00:49:32,230 Gentlemen, I give you a toast to Silver Blaze, coupled with the names of my 520 00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:35,930 friends, to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. 521 00:49:43,530 --> 00:49:44,750 To Silver Blaze.