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over 2,000 guineas each, and might be worth 

 nearly half as much between them. In addition 

 to this, there were, of course, entries, and they had 

 been liberal ; training expenses, clothing, and the 

 other little items which all mount up. Besides, I 

 had no horses ; that was the annoying part of it. 

 I had planned to go round to the principal 

 meetings, expecting to have one or two running 

 at each, but as things were I could not get over 

 the Treasure, and I felt it would afford me very 

 little satisfaction to go and see other people's 

 horses running with mine not amongst them, 

 as I had hoped they would be. I was half in- 

 clined to cut the whole business and go abroad 

 to try to forget it ; but it seemed cowardly to 

 accept defeat so soon, and just then an oppor- 

 tunity of recruiting my diminutive lot presented 

 itself. 



One of the three other men who trained in 

 my stable was obliged to go to India with his 

 regiment. He had only half a dozen horses, 

 among them a decidedly useful three-year-old 

 and a couple of two-year-olds that looked like 

 winning races ; and he offered them to me at a 

 price to be agreed upon between the trainer and 

 my friend C. H., the latter being, indeed, an 

 intimate friend of both of us. I took the three 



