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once round the little course, and once round the 

 long or Grande Course, then again round the little 

 course and finished, they will be able to form some 

 sort of idea of the distance we had to run. ' Bar- 

 billon ' had all the extras, and ' Miss Irvine ' claimed 

 an allowance, so he had to give her lo lb. and two 

 years. It was a tremendous race, and, my horse 

 running very gamely, I got up in the last three 

 strides and beat Arthur Watkins a head on ' Miss 

 Irvine.' This race completely settled ' Barbillon,' 

 and he was never worth a shilling for racing after- 

 wards. He came over the next year to John 

 Porter's at Kingsclere to be trained for the Good- 

 wood Cup. He had the allowance for being bred 

 in France, but he never seemed to gallop a yard, 

 and was beaten quite a quarter of a mile. Perhaps 

 the real fact is that that race in France broke his 

 heart conipletely, and I have heard Mr. T. Jennings 

 say he never saw a horse that won the same race, 

 if he was extended, ever good for anything after- 

 wards. 



It is unnecessary for me to weary my readers by 

 commenting on all the horses I rode and won on for 

 his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, but I must men- 

 tion two others, which were certainly the biggest 

 and the smallest in England at the time. These 



