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this one, since, from what I could judge, she would 

 probably pass under the 14.2 standard even in a year's 

 time. She was knocked down to me for twenty-one 

 guineas, and I sent her to the brothers Prince, who 

 soon informed me that the little filly could gallop more 

 than a bit. By the time she was a three-year-old she 

 had grown beyond the galloway limit, though still 

 small. When tried, she proved herself smart enough 

 to win a nice little race, and what is more, she 

 ** clicked " first time out at " Ally Pally " at a nice 

 price. The *' Frying Pan Course " — twice round and 

 once up the handle — seemed to suit her, for subse- 

 quently she won another race there, besides picking up 

 some of the spoils elsewhere. At last her merits 

 became so appreciated that I was unable to buy her in, 

 after winning a good-class selling race. She was 

 bought for a Belgian owner, who proceeded to run up 

 a sequence of wins with her, culminating in the capture 

 of one of the most important races in his country. I 

 do not know what her end was. She should have been 

 a most successful matron. Many of these diminutive 

 mares, like their human prototypes, beget hefty stock 

 above the normal size. I forgot to say that I named 

 this smart little lady Guinevere. Her sire. Laureate, 

 was by Rosicrucian — Laura by Petrarch. Her dam, 

 Clianthus by Stockwell. Good enough, in all 

 conscience ! 



She was the first of my winners under J.C. Rules, 

 and so marked the beginning of a distinct era in my 



