SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



" He's worth that to me," I returned. " I know 

 where to place him." 



I put Mr. Charles Hibhert in to buy him, ex- 

 plaining the circumstances, which the Duke con- 

 firmed. " Fifteen hundred and no more," I said to 

 Mr. Hibbert : so that, by necessity, when Mr. John 

 Percival, acting for Sir George Chetwynd, made a 

 bid of that amount Mr. Hibbert retired. Sutler did 

 fair service for Sir George in minor kind of stakes. 

 But I always regarded him as a horse that should 

 have won a big handicap. 



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