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defeated her, and Akd Patrick never was so well 



in every way for any of his races as he was for the 



Derby and Eclipse. 



In connection with the training of Ard Patrick, 



I had a horse called Sweet Sounds, which I bought 



purposely to lead him. Sweet Sounds 

 The savage ^ ^ 

 " Sweet being rather bad tempered, I was always 



cautioning the boy who rode him. After 



Ard Patrick's final gallop for the Derby, led by 



Sweet Sounds, I sent these two horses to walk 



round my plantation and to get a turn in the 



shade of the trees, and I again instructed the boy 



to be careful with Sweet Sounds, but he loosed 



his girth, which is customary after galloping, and 



did not see that the pin of the buckle had not 



caught in the hole. It dropped down, and the 



buckle touched Sweet Sounds under the knee. 



He went down on his knees as if he had been shot, 



threw the boy off and seized him by his leg and ran 



round with him Uke a terrier with a rat, tearing 



his clothes off and part of his flesh. When he 



loosed him the boy ran for protection behind one 



of my ploughs. Ard Patrick was ridden away 



behind the trees. Sweet Sounds made for home 



bridleless. My third son, Ernest, who met him 



up the road, approached him without fear. Part 



of the rein was on his neck ; he put this round his 



nose and led him into the yard as quiet as a sheep. 



