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ceeded in his first season to get The Tetrarch. Never- 

 theless I have been after him with Grey Fox (son of 

 Le Samaritain), and with that magnificent stallion I 

 can challenge all the world. His portrait cannot fail 

 to be of abiding interest, for he is so well patronised 

 by the best breeders in England that his failure is 

 practically impossible. 



The gist of the above remarks, however, is that I 

 have never recommended anything in The Sportsman 

 because it was mine, but because it was what, in my 

 humble judgment, was the right sort to own, and there- 

 fore I became possessor of it. It is difficult to make 

 the man-in-the-street understand these things ; but it 

 is surely easy to see that if you were working for 

 yourself the profitable course would be to go in solely 

 for fashion, which I never did, except in the one case 

 of the purchase of Collar (by St Simon out of Ornament). 

 But I never liked Collar, profitable though he was, as I 

 did Trenton, whose death was among the most poignant 

 griefs of my life. 



That there is no Hebrew blood in me is a certainty, 

 and yet I can best explain my methods in exploiting 

 my ideas as to blood-stock breeding by comparing 

 them with those of the Jews, who have from the earliest 

 times always wished to give a practical demonstration 

 of their meaning. Thus Jeremiah went all the way to 

 the Euphrates and buried rotten rags there before 

 he felt really ready to tell the Jews that they would 

 be carried off to that quarter. Zedekiah, the son of 

 Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and butted 

 the people, as an illustration of the prophecy which he 

 was about to make, and even in these later days I 

 have seen a Jew auctioneer of clothes, in Petticoat 



