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go ' — Doyle's delight and the Admiral's indignation — Removal to 

 Park House, and sickness in the stable— Illness of Rosicrucian and 

 Green Sleeve — Blue Gown's persistent health — 'The Old Toll-house; 

 or, the Defeat of the Touts' — John Porter's communicative com- 

 panion, 'who knew Hawley and Wells and Porter' — The parcel from 

 W. H. Smith & Son's — Disclosure and denouement. . . .31 



CHAPTER IV 



Filching the trainer's good name — An artfully knavish Turf adviser— 

 The wrongful heir— A curiosity in Turf prophecy : a Silas Wegg who 

 dropped into poetry— Important trials, and an unread riddle— Why 

 Pero Gomez was beaten — Wells that day not Wells — A thunderstorm 

 which lost the Oaks — A marvellous Kingsclere year — Rosicrucian 

 and Blue Gown at their greatest — ' Why, I could not tell you how 

 good Blue Gown was ! ' — Sir Joseph Hawley's failing health— The 

 relations between owner and trainer — The Baronet's uniform kind- 

 ness and consideration — ■ One of the best friends I have had ' . . 51 



CHAPTER V 



Vagabond's City and Suburban — Walter and his ' Kingsclere Racing 

 Circular' at 'The Swan '—The trial of Vagabond— Effect of the 

 report on the betting — The scratching of Vagabond and King 

 Cophetua — The libel on Sir Joseph Hawley in the ' Sporting Times ' 

 — Meeting of Sir Joseph Hawley and Dr. Shorthouse— Additions to 

 the Kingsclere stable — Isonomy — An extraordinary trial — Isonomy 

 1 great ' and Fernandez ' good ' — All ' going ' the same to Isonomy — 

 Porter ceases to train for the owner of Fernandez — Lord Stamford 

 joins the stable 66 



CHAPTER VI 



Beaudesert and his bowed tendon— A too confident purchase — • Passed 

 as sound ' — Geheimniss : her astonishing gift of speed — Whipper In : 

 an extraordinary tell-tale — A wonderfully strong stable — A Two 

 Thousand trial — A double claim on Archer — The Derby trial of 

 St. Blaise — H.R.H. the Prince of Wales's first visit to Kingsclere — 

 Was St. Blaise a lucky horse ? — The trial good enough to win nine 

 Derbys out of ten — Charles Wood's masterly riding of St. Blaise — 

 Reasons for losing the Grand Prix — Accident to Reprieve — ' A line ' 

 for St. Simon— Mr. Cloete — Purchase of the Casuistry colt — Trouble- 

 some to train — Sale and re-sale of Paradox — Scratched for the Cam- 

 bridgeshire—Porter ceases to train for Mr. Cloete .... 



