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auctions that I considered might be capable of develop- 

 ment and improvement One time and another I had 

 some funny old crocks to deal with, together with a 

 wonderful collection of youngsters which no one else 

 would bid for. But having regard to the material 

 which I was able to command, I think I am entitled to 

 consider myself to have been uncommonly lucky as 

 regards my selections. 



I have had an eye for a horse, hound, or dog from 

 my earliest days, and was always well furnished with 

 that critical faculty which enables the expert to tot up 

 the points of symmetry and balance in any domestic 

 animal which he has under observation. Perhaps it 

 was this gift, plus a kind of intuition, which enabled 

 me to pick up, for a mere song, animals which bore my 

 verdant livery with some sort of distinction. The 

 following schedule is surely a revelation of cheap 

 winners of sorts : — 



Price paid. 

 £ s. 



* I. Armada, br. c. by Fermandez — Sota di Roma by 



Pero Gomez . . . . . . . . . . 50 o 



(Winner of the Tattersall Sale Stakes, Newmarket. 

 Beaten a short head (through carelessness of 

 his jockey), in the Great Metropolitan, etc.) 



2. Weasel, br. g. 121 o 



(Winner of 8 firsts, i dead heat, i second, i un- 

 placed.) 



3. Trelaske, br. g. by The Miser 126 10 



(Winner of High Peake Welter (Derby), £100 

 match ; 2nd in Queen's Prize, Kempton, etc.) 



* Purchased at auction as yearling. 



