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" What a queer old horse mine is, I can't win a 

 race with him, and I can't break him down." 

 Had his brother, Beauclerc, possessed legs of 

 iron like him, in all probability we should have 

 seen another Derby and Leger go to Highfield. 



Mr. I'Anson bought this colt for Mr. Perkins 

 at the sale of his father's yearlings at Doncaster 

 in 1876, giving 1,050 guineas for him. He is a 

 big brown horse, with rather a look of his grand- 

 sire, Yoltigeur, about his quarters, but he had, 

 unfortunately, injured his pastern joint when a 

 foal, and he was consequently rather difficult to 

 train. As a two-year- old lie had an uninter- 

 rupted succession of victories, winding up the 

 season by winning the Middle Park Plate some- 

 what cleverly from a large field of high-class 

 horses. He was three lengths and a-half in front 

 of Pilgrimage, the winner of next year's Two 

 Thousand and One Thousand ; in the latter of 

 which races she beat Jannette, who subsequently 

 won the Leger, by three-quarters-of-a-length. The 

 stable naturally thought they had a good thino- 

 for the Derby, and the Malton crack was a good 

 winter favourite. Unfortunately the strong work 

 necessary for a horse of his exceptionally good 

 constitution found out the weak place, and he 

 succumbed to the exio^encies of trainino-. All 

 efforts to get him to the post for the Derby 

 proved unavailing, but he got patched up to 

 put in an appearance at Doncaster. But his 



