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with Kettledrum for the Two Thousand, for the judge 



declared there was not the difference of a race-card 



between them. He achieved that feat after behaving- 



like a mad horse, suggesting the suspicion that he had 



been ' done,' an impression accentuated by the way in 



which he was ' milked ' throughout the winter in London 



and Manchester. It is a matter of fact that Captain 



White and old John Osborne held the opinion that the 



horse had been ' got at.' Klarikoff recovered from the 



presumed ' nobbling,' and so well did he progress 



between the Rowley Mile contest and Epsom that John 



Scott looked upon the Derby as ' all over.' Mr. 



Padwick, celebrated in the ' Hastings era,' was the then 



owner of Klarikoff. Lord St. Vincent gave Mr. 



Padwick five thousand for the moiety of the colt's 



ownership, the bargain including a bet of forty hundred 



to two for the Derby. How, in the race for the blue 



ribbon, Mr. MacGeorge, in his nervous anxiety at the 



start, confessed he did not see the horse, and practically 



left him standing at the post, and how Fordham, 



irritated at being thus treated after being in a good 



place in all the previous false starts, over-rode his horse, 



was second at the top of the hill and fifth in the fimish, 



are facts recorded in Turf annals. The culminating 



point of Klarikoff's career and Lord St. Vincent's luck 



came when, in returning from Epsom, the colt was 



destroyed by the van, in which he was travelling from 



Epsom to Whitewall, taking fire from a spark from the 



engme. 



" One of the most prominent examples of Lord St. 

 Vincent's pluck during his brief Turf career was his 

 purchase of Lord Clifden, who, as a two-year-old, had 

 been so liicrhlv tried that 20 to 1 was asked about him 

 for the Derbv before he ran for the Woodcote. The colt 

 was the property of Mr. Llind, a wine and spirit 



