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were 'Wild Tommy,' who stood a good 16.3, 

 and ' Beauharnais,' a lltde black mare just under 

 14.2. I recollect riding her in a Nursery at New- 

 market, with top weight, 8 st. 12 lb., with four- 

 teen runners, and was only beaten a head. ' Beau- 

 harnais ' was an extraordinary little animal, and 

 used to catch my ankles with her elbows. She 

 was also very short in front of the saddle, so 

 altogether I smothered her ; but she had the most 

 perfect action possible, and was like a good-sized 

 greyhound bowling along. ' Wild Tommy ' would 

 have been a real good colt except for making a noise, 

 which was not to be wondered at in such a big horse. 

 In the St. Leger of 1876 'Wild Tommy' nearly 

 brought off a great coup, as he was only beaten a 

 neck by ' Petrarch.' I should have won that day 

 had I been on the other side, but, as it was, I was 

 keeping ' Petrarch ' straight ; he was hanging very 

 much to the right, and, unfortunately, I was on the 

 whip-hand side. ' Wild Tommy ' started at 100 to 

 I against him, so the bookmakers would have had a 

 rare turn up if the Duke had won. 



I had forgotten to mention that the Duke had 

 these very two horses painted by Harry Hall. He 

 said he thought he had the largest and the smallest 

 animals in training, and he had the biggest and 



