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seeing that the ligament in question is one of his 

 principal supports. Porter immediately sent for 

 Lord Alington, and his lordship and Sir Frederick 

 Johnstone came together. On their attention being 

 called to the blemish, Barrow, the Newmarket 

 veterinary surgeon, who had passed Beaudesert as 

 sound, was summoned to the conference. That 

 well-known authority was reminded that Beaudesert 

 had been purchased conditionally on his passing 

 him as sound, whereupon Barrow replied that the 

 horse had won the Middle Park Plate and his being 

 sound or not did not matter — or words to that effect. 

 Although Porter urged Lord Alington and Sir 

 Frederick Johnstone to obtain further veterinary ad- 

 vice, they felt that, inasmuch as they had purchased 

 the colt subject to Barrow's certificate, and the 

 veterinary ' authority ' had duly ' passed ' him, they 

 were bound to accept the situation. ' But,' to repeat 

 the narrator's natural exclamation, ' fancy passing 

 the horse — any horse — without first removing his 

 bandages ! ' As Porter had anticipated and foretold, 

 the first good gallop Beaudesert was given as a 

 three-year-old broke him down : the bowed tendon 

 gave way. 



Lord Stamford made a lucky beginning at 

 Kingsclere in 1881 by purchasing Geheimniss 

 (a daughter of Rosicrucian and Nameless) of 

 Tom Cannon for 2,000/. Otherwise his lordship 

 had few horses, and they of no great account. 

 Geheimniss, who as a two-year-old ' won every- 

 thing,' was perhaps one of the speediest animals at 



