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stable systematically for some time. At first, to 

 use his lingo, because he thought it ' respectable 

 to Lord B.' as a friend of his lord's, but for the 

 last year from a conviction that Lord B/s stable 

 had at length got right. I fear, however, he has 

 been hit on the Cup." " We " — thus amusingly 

 identifying himself with the owner — " could have 

 beaten anything but Isonomy." 



There is one more reference to Chippendale. 

 On July 30th of this year, in a letter to Lady 

 Bradford, Disraeli wrote : " The terrible news from 

 Afghanistan, the defeat of Chippendale and some 

 other matters, so knocked me up yesterday that I 

 felt physically incapacitated to write." The defeat 

 to which Disraeli refers in this letter was one of 

 those reverses for which Goodwood is famous. 

 There were only two runners for the Cup — Chip- 

 pendale and Dresden China ; and Lord Bradford's 

 horse was so confidently expected to beat the 

 mare that the odds of 3 to i were laid on him. 

 He, however, suffered defeat by three-quarters of a 

 length. Chippendale continued to run. Although 

 he could only get fifth in the Cesarewitch, he 

 won the Jockey Club Cup. In the two following 

 years he again failed in the Cesarewitch, but under 

 very heavy weights. He wound up his fine career 

 by winning the Jockey Club Cup for the second 

 time, beating, among others, such famous animals 

 as Tristan and Corrie Roy. 



Disraeli, broken in health and weary of the world 

 which he had once ruled by his wit and wisdom, 

 died in 1881. Eleven years later the scene is 

 Epsom Downs, and a field of thirteen runners 

 contests " the paramount and Olympian stake.'* 



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