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he had to be constantly stopped in his work. Various 

 opinions were of course taken, and while one veterinary- 

 surgeon thought the lameness was in the knee, another 

 blamed the shoulder, and a third suggested rheumatic gout. 

 Had it been possible to train Chittabob, no doubt he would 

 have been a great winner. He was very speedy, and was 

 always going from the moment the flag fell, but being in- 

 variably short of work he was generally spun out before the 

 winning-post was reached. I remember him looking all 

 over a winner of the St. Leger of his year as the field came 

 to the distance, but the horse was not even half-trained ; and 

 the very fact of his finishing among the leaders, and in 

 front of the Oaks winner L'Abbesse de Jouarre, shows what 

 a great horse he really was. That same night his attendant 

 found him wringing-wet at eleven o'clock, and no doubt the 

 horse was in great pain from his limb trouble, whatever it 

 was. Between the St. Leger of that year and the ten- 

 thousand -pound Lancashire Plate there was an interim of 

 eleven days, and for a week of that period Chittabob was 

 confined to his box. Then he became a little sounder, did 

 two half-speed gallops, and was sent to Manchester. Once 

 more he met more than his match in Donovan, but in running 

 second the unsound and half-trained horse did a wonderful 

 performance, as he had behind him Alicante (who won the 

 Cambridgeshire under 7 st. 12 lbs, a month later), Seabreeze 

 (winner of the St. Leger and Oaks in the previous year), 

 Enthusiast, and other good ones ; and he was only beaten 

 in the last hundred yards, having, as usual, shown a bold 

 front to the distance. 



As a judge of horses — and of their value — there are few 

 if any trainers who can give I'Anson a pound. In his time 

 he has secured some of the most extraordinary bargains, and 

 notably he paid only 190 guineas for Breadknife, who, after 

 distinguishing himself greatly both on the racecourse and 

 at the stud, was sold in 1898 to Mr. John Robinson, of the 

 Worksop Manor Stud, for ^3,000, the horse being fifteen 

 years old at the time. For Castor, with whom he won the 

 Liverpool Cup, he gave ;^200, and for Wyneswold, who 

 won a score of second-class races, about the same amount. 



