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After that race ' The Doctor ' was sold to the 

 Duke of Hamilton for ^1,200, but he never was 

 the same horse afterwards, and althouo-h he ran 

 several times, he never won. I think that the race 

 for the Liverpool really broke his heart, and he was 

 never any more good as a racehorse. In his later 

 performances at Croydon and Baden-Baden he 

 stopped in the middle of a field and kicked on both 

 occasions. In those days I used to go over to 

 France to ride for the Duke of Hamilton, and I 

 stayed at Chantilly with Planner, who trained for 

 his Grace. One day we were talking about hunting, 

 and Planner casually said to me : 



" Why don't you ask the Duke to let you have 

 some of his old steeplechase horses ? — they would 

 make you first-rate hunters. Why, there is the old 

 ' Doctor ' no good to him now !" 



Happening to see Mr. Peter Crawshaw that day, 

 I told him that I intended to ask the Duke for the 

 old horse. He said directly : 



"It will be no use, Cus, as he is mine when his 

 racing career is over." 



Nothing more was said at the time, but I believe 

 Mr. Crawshaw did ask for the horse that night, and 

 his Grace told him he could have him, and Mr. Craw- 

 shaw told me the next day he had asked the Duke, but 



