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but before the Epsom Meeting serious pecuniary difficulties 

 arose, and he might have lost both his money and his horse, 

 had it not been for the generosity of a money-lender, who con- 

 sented to forego an advantage which circumstances had placed 

 in his power. 



Let the backers of Kisber remember this before they speak 

 evil of usurers. 



So Mr. Baltazzi's horse won the Derby and Grand Prix in 

 a canter, and Petrarch perchance had never been recorded 

 winner of the Leger had not Kisber broken down in the pan 

 of the heel some time before the race. The owner hedged his 

 money for a time, but on Hayhoe giving the horse a couple of 

 canters at the last moment, took heart of grace, and backed 

 him for double the amount he originally had on ! 



It may be remembered that after the Derby there was some 

 talk of an objection on the score of age, but as he was bought 

 as a yearling at the Imperial Stud, there could be no real doubt 

 on the subject. 



He was always lame in the stable, and was generally walked 

 about for two hours before commencing fast work. 



Let us return to the Kingsclere stable, still guided by the 

 master hand which has lost none of its cunning, to more modern 

 times, to the present decade. 



Here is a clever bit of handicapping of some most un- 

 promising material, and a case where class honours followed 

 what must be admitted to have been a very indifferent private 

 examination— we refer to the trial of Shotover for the Two 

 'I'housand, which trial took place on April i8, 1882. 



One mile. 



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