ME. GUBBINS AND GALTEE MOEE 49 



for the Derby, after winning the Two Thousand, 

 His guar- which meant a very anxious time for 

 dian dog ^^^^ After several false reports that 

 he was going to be got at, I had a huge dog, a 

 cross between a retriever and a Newfoundland, a 

 very intelligent beast, put as a guard for Galtee 

 More. I placed him in the passage outside his 

 box (on a mat) one night, and he seemed to 

 know exactly what was required of him. He 

 went there without any persuasion afterwards. 

 Nothing happened to Galtee More, notwithstand- 

 ing the false reports that had arisen in the neigh- 

 bourhood ; and when he went to the station to go 

 to Epsom, this dog followed him, and at the station, 

 without being spoken to at all, he jumped up into 

 the luggage car, sat up on his hindlegs and looked 

 at me as much as to say, " IVe done my part.'' 

 He then went back home. 



Then commenced the railway journey, which 



proved to be of a very trying nature for me. I 



A trying travelled with him in his box. We 



,-i.tll!!fL were shunted at Wimbledon (and there 

 journey to ^ 



Epsom was, I should think, about £60 ,000 worth 

 of horseflesh on the train), and were kept there 

 for the best part of an hour in the broiling sun. I 

 was absolutely beside myself to get away, and 

 on making inquiries as to why we were de- 

 tained, they said there were some trains to go 

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