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if bought by him, would go into my stable, he 

 had conceived the idea that Mr. Keene might have 

 instructed me as well as him to buy a yearhng, 

 and that we were opposing one another in the same 

 interest. This was not so, as it happened, and I 

 don't see how either of us could have acted more 

 correctly than we did, for, of course, Mr. Allison 

 put in his limit bid of 2,500 guineas when I had 

 gone 2,200 guineas, but had Mr. Keene thought 

 fit to let me know that Mr. Allison would be 

 buying a yearling for him, no such unnecessary 

 competition in the stable would have occurred, 

 and the colt would have been bought — possibly 

 for 1,500 guineas. 



He showed great promise as a two-year-old, and 

 won in impressive style at Sandown Park, but he 

 lacked constitution, and his feet also troubled him, 

 so that he ultimately went out to Australia, where, 

 I believe, he won races in the name of Condor. 



The best animals that I trained for Mr. Keene 

 were Cap and Bells and Colin, but the latter 



was practically broken down before he 

 R. Keeno's came to England. I was able to try 



him however, and here is the result : 



Six Furlong Trial 



