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Staffordshire, and, I believe, only had one brood 

 mare, 'The Slave,' dam of 'Lord Clifden ' and 

 ' Lady Clifden.' Anyhow, Holmes came down from 

 Manchester and effected a bargain. I believe the 

 price was ^6,500. 'Lord Clifden' had previously 

 been bought by Captain Christie, who took ^1,000 

 profit, and gave his trainer, Mr. Wadlow, who per- 

 suaded him to buy the horse, ^500 of it, 



A very funny thing occurred over a race at Man- 

 chester, which was run over the Old Castle Irwell 

 course. It was a Foal Stakes, and John Osborne 

 had brought an animal of his father's, ' Lorette,' 

 on the off-chance of getting second money, and 

 running it in a Selling Race the next day. It was 

 just the time they had altered the weights for two- 

 year-old races from 8 st. 7 lb. and 8 st. 4 lb. to 8 st. 

 10 lb. and 8 st. 7 lb. I happened to look at Bel/'s 

 Life, almost the only sporting paper in those days, 

 and saw the weight published 8 st. 7 lb. I went to 

 scale, and presently Mr. T. Wadlow, the present 

 Stanton trainer, came and said : 



" I should like to see you weighed." 



I replied, " All right," went to the scales, and said, 

 "8 St. 7 lb., please." 



Mr. Wadlow looked at his card, and said : 



" What do you mean ?" — I had not looked at a 



