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well ; for though beat by North Lincoln half a length in 

 the Grand Duke Michael Stakes across the flat, I think 

 he never ran better. He won the following year the only 

 three races that he ran for whilst with me one being 

 the Claret Stakes of 200 sovs. each and was sold to 

 Lord William Powlett, as I have described ; and, though 

 he ran several times, strange to say never won a race 

 afterwards. I sold him, as I have said, because I did 

 not think he had improved as a four-year-old, and the 

 selling an exposed horse for so large a sum (2,350) was 

 the right thing to do. 



This brings me to our joint ownership of Dulcibella, 

 taken in exchange from Lord William an animal I then 

 valued, never having seen her, as horse-dealers do ' a 

 chopper,' to use a technical term, at nothing. On telling 

 Mr. Eobinson at Epsom, next day, what I had done, 

 he wished me to keep the mare myself, saying he 

 did not want to have anything to do with her. But as 

 Lord William had valued her at 400, I explained that 

 it was only fair and right that he should take his share 

 in her ; and when he saw it in this light he unhesitat- 

 ingly took the half of her at 200. And yet this despised 

 mare, selected by Lord William as the one of his stud to 

 be got rid of, bought by myself without being seen, and 

 merely as the means to have what I viewed as a good 

 bargain clinched, and a share in which my partner would 

 only take with reluctance, within five months won the 

 Cesarewitch easier than it had ever been won before, or 

 has been since ! 



As many curious and interesting circumstances were 

 connected with Dulcibella s trials and races, I may ven- 

 ture to give a brief record of some of the particulars. I 

 ran her a mile at Epsom the day after I took possession 

 of her, and she was beaten as easily as she had been in 



