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wood), the race being reduced to a match between 

 them. As a three-year old his was a brief but 

 chequered career, and for the greater part of it most 

 unlucky. He began coughing at Epsom, and was 

 amiss in the Derby. Restored, if not perfectly well 

 at the Royal Meeting, he ran second to None the 

 Wiser in the Ascot Derby, giving her 16 lb. Then 

 he was second to Isinglass, beaten a short head in 

 the Princess of Wales Stakes, Ladas being third. 

 And he won the Midsummer Plate. Bullingdon, his 

 trainer had long ere this discovered, was a horse of a 

 peculiar temperament and a delicate constitution. 

 In both respects he resembled his mother, Shotover. 

 When he was taken to Liverpool to run for the St. 

 George's Stakes he became so excited in his box, at 

 the moment of effecting his removal to the stable at 

 Aintree, they could do nothing with him. The boy 

 was turning him to tie him up when he whipped 

 round and kicked out with such violence (fortunately 

 missing the lad) it was found, on final removal, that 

 he had sustained a compound fracture of the thigh. 

 Mortification ensued, and this fine colt died. It was 

 a serious loss to the Turf, since, from his breeding 

 — the offspring of two Derby winners, Melton and 

 Shotover — Bullingdon would no doubt have proved 

 invaluable at the stud. During this season (1893) 

 the Kingsclere stable won 20,395/. 



