THREE- YEAR- OLDS. 1 7 r 



be inaccurate and incomplete. On the other hand, Major 

 Barlow, who was supposed to supervise the Duke's stud, kept, 

 strange to say, no stud-book or record whatever ! And it was 

 at this point of the inquiry that the extraordinary fact came to 

 light how few there are amongst breeders of thoroughbred 

 stock w^ho do keep any such register. This, considering the 

 value of the animals produced, the perfect possibility of mis- 

 takes occurring, and the disastrous inconvenience which might 

 thence accrue, does strike us as an instance of remarkable and 

 dangerous neglect of interests both public and private. In the 

 particular case under discussion there was exceptional need of 

 accuracy, for IMajor Barlow had persuaded the Duke of West- 

 minster that his weaned foals did not thrive in the Eaton 

 paddocks ; consequently Bend Or and Tadcaster were sent 

 to Newmarket on leaving their mothers' sides, and from that 

 day to the time when the two-year-old Bend Or ran in the 

 Chesterfield neither of the Arnulls had once set eyes on either 

 of them. 



It also transpired that, though the Arnulls and Sexton had 

 originally been most positive in their statements as to the 

 markings of the two colts, yet when separately examined they 

 all broke down completely in their descriptive evidence. 



Moreover it was a curious thing that, having had, as they 

 declared to the stewards, a knowledge of this matter since July 

 1879, they should never have made mention of it until they 

 were discharged about the end of June 1880. 



On the other hand, the evidence in refutation of tlie 

 Arnulls' assertions was very strong, and came from witnesses 

 who had not only seen the foals at their mothers' sides, but also 

 afterwards when they were at Newmarket, and again whilst in 

 training as yearlings and two-year-olds. 



Thus exiit in fuino an episode which w^e believe to be 

 unique in turf history. That one racehorse has ere now been 

 substituted for another is undoubtedly a fact ; it has happened 

 perhaps more often than the world wots of; but in cases where 

 a charge of this nature has been brought, fraud has been 



