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record and Lady Meux agreed to buy him if Mr Williams 

 passed him sound. The horse was located in the late 

 James Waugh's stable. Mr Williams will remember 

 how he and I and Lady Meux and a little dog went 

 down by train to Newmarket with a luncheon basket 

 and a bottle of champagne. The dog took a fit and 

 buzzed about like a Catherine wheel, but as Mr Williams 

 was a vet, I left it to him, and I must say he was equal 

 to the occasion. 



Survivor was passed sound, and he was run within 

 a few weeks of that time for the Cesarewitch, finish- 

 ing so prominently at the Bushes that he was noted 

 as good for the Cambridgeshire ; but that Cesarewitch 

 effort had overdone him. He was no great stayer, 

 and he never regained his form until he ran second 

 to Newhaven for the City and Suburban the following 

 year. 



There is no doubt that Survivor was a good horse, 

 but at that time Merman had made our trainers think 

 that all colonial horses were stayers, and capable of any 

 amount of work. 



There was a much more mysterious horse that I 

 brought over from Australia, and that was Oban. He 

 had a first-rate record and won his last race just before 

 starting for England. Mrs Langtry was the buyer, 

 but she transferred the purchase to Mr Edgar Cohen, 

 and when Oban went to Foxhill on his arrival, Robinson 

 was delighted with him after a very few weeks. He 

 was a gelding by the great Prince Charlie horse, Lochiel, 

 and ultimately, after being entered in the Cambridge- 

 shire, showed them such a trial that the race was 

 regarded as a bed-rock certainty. When the card 

 was called over at the Newmarket subscription rooms 



