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or how bad he might be, in order that I might have a 

 line for Dulcibella from his running. And, notwithstand- 

 ing his excellent performance there, we sold him to Mr. 

 Campbell Wyndham, with the condition that he was 

 not to leave my stable .until after the Eoyal Stakes at 

 Newmarket, half of which the vendor was to have if he 

 won. He won the race and left me, but was never after- 

 wards a winner. Here was another mystery. How was 

 it that in this race he could beat horses that could run, 

 such as Baron Eothschild's King of Diamonds, the winner 

 of several races, and Mr. Merry's Trovatore, who won 

 six races that year, and yet, being the soundest horse in 

 England, his owner could find no race which he could 

 win ? 



Tame Deer won several little races. He once beat 

 the redoubtable Fisherman at 3 lb., at Lincoln, to which 

 place he had been sent merely to get a note for One Act 

 for the Spring Handicaps. He was afterwards beaten 

 at Northampton, in the Cup. But on this occasion he 

 was pulled up before reaching the distance, the jockey 

 saying he had gone the wrong side of a post. But as, 

 on a minute examination by both Mr. Parker and my- 

 self of the spot indicated, no tracks whatever could be 

 discovered on the wrong side of the post, he must have 

 told an untruth. The matter ended ; but not without, 

 as might well be expected, creating some unpleasantness 

 between owner and jockey ; and more especially as we 

 had particularly wished to have the horse ridden out, in 

 order to know his form. However, we saw he ran 

 sufficiently well until nearing the distance to know he 

 stayed, and had sufficient speed to try any fair distance 

 of ground. So, with two others in to correct them, he 

 was tried with One Act at 18 lb., and she beat him two 

 lengths, two and a quarter miles ; and I always looked 



