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and sizes, and shall have such to the end of the 

 chapter. A good many people thought that it 

 might have been better perhaps if the stewards of 

 the Doncaster meeting had, on the application of 

 Mr. Graham, the owner of Regalia, permitted a 

 veterinary examination of Gladiateur's mouth — it 

 would have decided the question once and for all — 

 but it was impossible to withhold one's approval of 

 the motives which, no doubt, actuated the refusal. 

 The Stewards, while sheltering themselves tech- 

 nically, as, of course, was within their right, were no 

 doubt reluctant to cast a slur on Count de Lagrange. 

 Mr. Graham having no evidence to support the im- 

 plied charge, they very properly refused his applica- 

 tion. Gladiateur was a real good horse, and he 

 proved it by going on winning as long as he 

 was kept at work. Robert the Devil was another 

 clinker. He won the St. Leger by three lengths. 

 Running at even weights with Bend Or in the Foal 

 Stakes, he defeated him after a tremendous finish by 

 a head, and, carrying 8 st. 6 lb., won the Cesarewitch 

 by four lengths. Meeting Bend Or again on equal 

 terms in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket, he 

 beat him by ten lengths. I have said my say about 

 Virago, Rosicrucian, and Isonomy in former chapters. 

 Foxhall's Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire speak 

 for themselves, and Matthew Dawson (who ought 

 to know) declares St. Simon to be the best he has 

 ever had, and he has had some good ones.' 



