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with Kettledrum for the Two Thousand, for the judge 

 declared there was not the difference of a race-card 

 between them. He achieved that feat after behaving 

 like a mad horse, suggesting the suspicion that he had 

 been ' done/ an impression accentuated by the way in 

 which he was ' milked ' throughout the winter in London 

 and Manchester. It is a matter of fact that Captain 

 White and old John Osborne held the opinion that the 

 horse had been ' got at.' Klarikoff recovered from the 

 presumed ' nobbling,' and so well did he progress 

 between the Rowley Mile contest and Epsom that John 

 Scott looked upon the Derby as * all over.' Mr. 

 Padwick, celebrated in the ' Hastings era,' was the then 

 owner of Klarikoff. Lord St. Vincent gave Mr. 

 Padwick five thousand for the moiety of the colt's 

 ownership, the bargain including a bet of forty hundred 

 to two for the Derby. How, in the race for the blue 

 ribbon, Mr. MacGeorge, in his nervous anxiety at the 

 start, confessed he did not see the horse, and practically 

 left him standing at the post, and how Fordham, 

 irritated at being thus treated after being in a good 

 place in all the previous false starts, over-rode his horse, 

 was second at the top of the hill and fifth in the finish, 

 are facts recorded in Turf annals. The culminating 

 point of Klarikoff's career and Lord St. Vincent's luck 

 came when, in returning from Epsom, the colt was 

 destroyed by the van, in which he was travelling from 

 Epsom to Whitewall, taking fire from a spark from the 

 engine. 



" One of the most prominent examples of Lord St. 

 Vincent's pluck during his brief Turf career was his 

 purchase of Lord Clifden, who, as a two-year-old, had 

 been so highlv tried that 20 to 1 was asked about him 



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for the Derby before he ran for the Woodcote. The colt 

 was the property of Mr. Hind, a wine and spirit 



