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I nor the trainer, nor anyone else to my knowledge, 

 had a shilling on the winner. Subsequent run- 

 ning, indeed, suggested that in that we had been 

 wise, for the odds-on favourite speedily retrieved 

 his character. Something was said about this 

 having been a "jockeys' race," the connections of 

 the favourite having gone for the second, for 

 whom, if the good horse did not win, the affair 

 had seemed a certainty ; but how this may have 

 been I cannot say. Inspired by victory, I sent 

 my bay to fulfil two other engagements, but he 

 was never near winning either of them, though 

 he carried off a nursery late in the year and a few 

 small races subsequently. 



Of the three that I had bought last two con- 

 tinued to do well, and the three-year-old I put 

 into a couple of fair class handicaps. By this 

 time I had come to learn a little about weights, 

 and, seeking confirmation of my opinion, asked 

 the trainer what we were likely to get. Some- 

 where about 7st. 2lb. was his idea, and this was 

 very near my own estimate ; so that our satisfaction 

 was great when the Calendar appeared and we 

 found that he had been let in with 6st. /lb. 

 The trainer was by no means a sanguine man, 

 but he admitted that the colt most certainly had 

 a " great chance," and the manner in which he 



