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to see him, to read complimentary remarks about 

 him in the training reports, and to observe the 

 evident admiration of my trainer, who undoubtedly 

 believed that we possessed a jewel. I longed to 

 see him run, so much so that a proposal to keep 

 him for Ascot did not at all please me ; I was too 

 impatient, and wanted him to come out in the 

 Newmarket Two Year Old Plate, the day after the 

 Two Thousand, for which I was gratified to hear 

 he could be got ready. 



My plater ran — the colours were out for the 

 first time at Nottingham in a little handicap, and 

 he performed fairly well, finishing near enough 

 to the leaders to show that he was in form ; and 

 the time had now come for really finding out 

 something about the seven that were doing work. 

 Of these, three seemed considerably superior to 

 the rest, and it was the remaining four that we 

 decided to gallop with the plater at weight for 

 age, 321b. I had not any illusion about them, 

 though I thought they would do better than they 

 did. The three-year-old won with the utmost 

 ease, the second beaten three lengths, the third 

 about as far behind, the other two many lengths 

 away ; and as regards these last, their capacity, I 

 grieved to learn, was so nearly what the trainer 

 had come to expect, that by his advice I decided 



