CHAPTER VIII 



THE SALE OF GALTEE MORE 



Naturally I had no wish that Galtee More 

 should be sold, but in the spring of 1898 the Rus- 

 sian Government asked the International Horse 

 Agency and Exchange, Limited, to recommend them 

 a horse at a limit of 10, COO guineas, likely to make a 

 high-class stallion. Mr. William AlHson, manager of 

 the Agency, wrote to me, asking if that sum would 

 be taken for Kilcock, and, as I thought it would, 

 he recommended Mr. Dorojynski, who by that time 

 was in England representing the Russian Govern- 

 ment, to go to Beckhampton and buy Kilcock. 



Mr. Dorojynski, a big, hefty gentleman, came 

 down to Beckhampton and liked Kilcock very 

 much, but on seeing Galtee More he said : 



" I should prefer to buy that horse ! '* 



No doubt on that score ; but he was 



The Russian -, -, ^ i i i t • 



commis- tola that he would have to obtam a 



sioner orreatlv enlarged commission, if his as- 

 prefers o j o ' 



Galtee More pirations were so high. He was a good 



to Kllcoek . 1 p 1 . , 



judge, for he sawCvLLENE win the New- 

 market Stakes shortly afterwards, and he said 



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