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of his success in that race were destroyed by his 

 breaking down. It was then thought that he 

 might be patched up for the Royal Hunt Cup at 

 Ascot. Satyr was carefully prepared for that race, 

 and a week before the meeting was tried. In the 

 course of the trial he fell head over heels and 

 shot the jockey out of the saddle, got up again, 

 galloped headlong for a couple of miles, and was 

 then recovered, an utterly woeful wreck of a horse. 

 He was so dead-lame it was with extreme difficulty 

 they could assist him home. In addition to sus- 

 taining other injuries of a miscellaneous character, 

 he had sprung both suspensory ligaments. Get- 

 ting the horse anything like right for Ascot with 

 the brief time at the trainer's disposal before the 

 meeting was a notion that was not for a moment 

 entertained. However, the best was made of a 

 bad job. The broken-down cripple was imme- 

 diately taken in hand, and treated literally day and 

 night. Fomentations at the proper time and in 

 the proper place, applications of iced water, and, 

 finally, when he could move about a bit, the 

 gentlest walking exercise, comprised the treatment, 

 pursued, however, with no idea of his making 

 more than the very slowest recovery. Sir Joseph 

 Hawley, nevertheless, having backed Satyr to win 

 him a large stake at Ascot, gave orders that the 

 horse should be taken thither, in order to give the 

 owner a chance of hedging some of his money. 

 Accordingly, Satyr's name appeared among the 

 arrivals at the Royal Heath. The morning before 



