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and thus entailed a serious loss upon their owner. 

 Still Castor was one of those sort of horses one 

 would like to own, and the fact of him not passing 

 a Veterinary Surgeon's examination Avhen sold 

 in 1887 for £2,000, is very much discounted by 

 his previous and subsequent performances. He 

 was bought privately from Mr. Robins at Don- 

 caster, and won six out of the eight races for 

 which he ran in 1885. As a three-year-old he 

 won ten races out of thirteen. He beat some 

 very good horses, and in the Queen's Plate at 

 LiverjDool, in which he was second to Ashplant, 

 he had that sterling mare Stone Clink a long 

 way behind him. He ran four times as a four- 

 year-old before he secured winning brackets, his 

 third to Merry Duchess and Carlton in the City 

 and Suburban being a very meritorious perform- 

 ance. Then he disappointed his owner by running 

 second to Exmoor in the Northumberland Plate, 

 which was all the more vexing, as his stable 

 companions, Hambledon and Selby, had occupied 

 the same position behind Blue Grass and Stone 

 Clink the two previous years. A big handicap 

 was to fall to him, however, and he ended his 

 turf career by winning an important race, the 

 Liverpool Summer Cup, as he had commenced it 

 by winning a valuable one at Manchester two 

 years before. He started a good favourite, and 

 his owner was well recompensed for his previous 

 disappointments. His nett winnings during his 



