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of her dam being Vespasian by Newminster, 

 whilst she herself is third in direct descent from 

 Seclusion, Hermit's dam. Her offspring are very 

 promising so far as they have come, especially 

 her foal (1888) by Bread Knife, a nice qualitied 

 brown filly, with wonderful good back and hocks. 

 Hambledon's early career was a somewhat 

 chequered one. He was considered a selling 

 plater and not of the highest class, for he only 

 won three of these races before he came into Mr. 

 I 'Anson's hands. He had several owners before 

 he got to Highfield, and passed through the hands 

 of Mr. Ker Seymour, Mr. C. J. Merry, Mr. Caring- 

 ton, Mr. 'Plunger' Walton, Col. Forester and 

 Mr. Hungerford, whose property he was when 

 he was claimed at Leicester. He ran second in 

 a Juvenile Selling Plate there, the winner to be 

 sold for 100 sovs., and was beaten by Mr. M. F. H. 

 Williamson's Wilkie, a horse that was trained 

 by I' Anson and thought rather smart. They ran 

 Wilkie up to G50 guineas before they let his 

 owner keep him, and by way of retaliatian Mr. 

 Williamson claimed Hambledon for Mr. I'Anson. 

 He won two good selling races for his new 

 owner, who had not to pay much for buying him 

 in on either occasion, and then he was tried in 

 some Nursery Handicaps in which, however, he 

 failed to figure prominently. He showed that 

 the Malton air agreed with him, for his form as 

 a three-year-old was a marked improvement, and 



