CHAPTER XVII 



AGAIN AT BECKHAMPTON 



I HOPE I have raade it clear that our experiences 



in Egypt were in the early part of Ard Patrick's 



four-year-old season, and before Mr. 



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of Ard Gubbins had agreed to sell the horse. 

 Pstrick 



Mr. Allison was commissioned by Count 

 Lehndorff to buy him, but Mr. Gubbins would not 

 take less than 25,000 gs. for a sale right out, or 

 20,000 gs. if he might run him on his own account 

 for his weight for age engagements that year. 



Count Lehndorff did not see his way to give 

 25,000 gs., which was a very big price indeed in 

 those days. On the other hand, he had conceived 

 an idea that I could not possibly train the horse, 

 after his accident at Ascot the year before, and 

 that if he gave 20,000 gs., leaving Mr. Gubbins 

 the right to run him, Ard Patrick would be 

 broken down before delivery. 



So the negotiations hung fire until Ard Patrick 



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