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St. Leger with the famous Lord Clifden in 1863, it 

 is understood that he burnt his fingers very badly 

 during his connection with the Turf, which is highly 

 credible, as he certainly had dealings with the noto- 

 rious Mr. Padwick (the ' Spider '), from whom he is 

 said to have purchased at a cost of something like ten 

 thousand pounds a half- share only in the unfortunate 

 race-horse Klarikoff (burnt in his van in 1861, on his 

 way from Epsom after the Derby to TVhitewall) one 

 of the favourites for the Two Thousand and the 

 Derby in 1861, when it was common to bet 'the three 

 D.'s against the three K.'s ' (Diophantus, Dundee, 

 and Dictator against Klarikoff, Kettledrum, and 

 Kildonan) . 



Viscount Dupplin (eldest son of the eleventh Earl 

 of Kinnoul), who had the misfortune to have his 

 marriage dissolved (which, however, as we have seen, 

 was quite in accordance with the early fashion of the 

 Jockey Club), and who died at Monte Carlo in 1886, 

 if not a ' shocking example ' exactly, belonged rather 

 to that category than to the model members or the 

 highly distinguished members, though he won the 

 Two Thousand (not with Kaleidoscope, as had been 

 expected, though nobody seems to have known why) 

 and the St. Leger in 1876 with the beautiful horse 

 Petrarch, that, as a two-year-old, had ' spread-eagled ' 

 his field for the Middle Park Plate. That a Lord 

 Dupplin should be a horse-racer by heredity is plain 

 when we see that as early as 1717 a Lord Dupplin 



