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And again : ' Florio Rubattino was in a measure 

 tarred with the same brush as Salvador, who utterly 

 disgraced himself.' 



January 4, 1904: ' Lord Bobs was a sprinter of 

 exceptional ability . . . though the attempt to prove 

 him a stayer as a three-year-old ended in failure. 

 Redcar's lack of stamina was here very distinctly 

 exemplified.' 



January 6, 1904: 'The running gave rise to 

 caustic criticism, which I am bound to believe was 

 in the majority of cases perfectly justified.' 



And again : ' The moderate Vogelkop scored 

 somewhat easily.' 



January 15, 1904: 'Generally speaking, the 

 quality of the greater portion of the animals entered 

 is singularly bad.' 



And again : ' The Haydock Park Steeplechase 

 did not attract a very gay lot to the post. The 

 hopes of the Irish division were centred entirely in 

 Little May IL She, however, ran very disap- 

 pointingly.' 



January 26, 1904: 'Reinforcements in the shape 

 of new blood are very much needed.' 



And the same writer, in ' Notes and Anticipations ' 

 in general (date mislaid), writes of the paucity ' of 

 stayers now in training'; that 'the purely old-fashioned 

 sort of thoroughbred, such as Fisherman, exists, 

 apparently, only in the records of antiquity '; of ' the 

 tendency to breed so many weeds '; of ' the over- 

 whelming progeny of worthless sires with which this 



