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or two for him, was in my stud at Alvediston, and later 

 became the dam of the famous Derby winner Galopin, 

 afterwards such a fashionable sire at Blankney, where he 

 was located with Mr. Chaplin's prince of stallions, 

 Hermit, whose dam, by the way, Seclusion, was also 

 with me as a yearling. On another occasion I bought 

 with him Mr. Simpson's yearlings, forty-five in number, 

 at 40 each. But long before the day appointed for their 

 resale by public auction, he withdrew from the contract ; 

 and rather than hold him to his verbal engagement, I 

 ook them over myself. The sale, which took place at 

 Alvediston, was a fair one, and I had no cause to regret 

 the course I had taken ; and as to the result of it, no 

 one was more surprised perhaps than Mr. Padwick 

 himself. 



In connection with this sale, I should mention one, 

 to me, very disagreeable incident. When Brother to 

 Seclusion came up to the ring, a horse on which I had 

 put a reserve of 1,000 guineas, asking my brother John 

 to bid to that price for me, I noticed that he went 

 beyond that figure, and when someone had bid 1,050 

 guineas, he bid 1,100 guineas for him, at which price, 

 as I afterwards learned, he had bought him for Mr. 

 C. C. Greville. But this gentleman refused to take him. 

 He declared that ' he was told I had run him up ' (which 

 was utterly untrue), and ' that he was not worth the 

 money' (a thing he could not possibly have known). 

 He begged my brother's acceptance of a hundred-pound 

 note for his trouble, and asked him to keep the horse, 

 which John did, and won a race or two at Newmarket 

 with him, though he was never very good. 



I must say that Mr. Greville's action on this occasion 

 was a great surprise to me. He was the last person in 

 the world that I should have thought would have been 



