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the other two, which it would, perhaps, have been 

 wiser in him to have kept, and not to have bought 

 Bay Middleton at all. It cannot be denied that 

 the late Sir Tatton Sykes spoke truly and from 

 long experience when he called thoroughbred 

 stallions, brood mares, and their progeny " casualty 

 stock." 



