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The deal was confirmed at once, subject to my having 

 the horse " vetted" and dispatched to Newmarket to 

 Blackwell as soon as possible. This was done, but 

 Chaleureux, rightly or wrongly, had the reputation of 

 being a bit savage, and Blackwell could not get a boy 

 to do him at first, so fell to and did the horse himself. 

 That is the class of man he is, and though Chaleureux 

 proved too good for Newhaven as a taskmaster, and, 

 indeed, did him more harm than good, Blackwell later 

 on trained him for the Cesarewitch to such a pitch of 

 perfection that even I, who never bet, had $ on each 

 way. He won in great style, and also the Manchester 

 November Handicap, carrying 8 st. 10 Ib. 



He was just the sort of horse Blackwell has loved 

 to train, thriving on his work and feeding up on it, but 

 he was the last in the world if one had only known 

 to gallop with one like Newhaven, who was only at his 

 best early in the season when half fit as might be 

 imagined. 



Mr P. P. Gilpin I cannot class as an old friend, but 

 I hope he is a friend all the same. Once and once only 

 did I go round his stable, and that was in the spring 

 of the year when Spearmint was a three-year-old. 

 Admiral Crichton was the three-year-old I went to 

 see, as he was at that time supposed to be the crack. 

 I did not quite like him, but stayed when we came to 

 Spearmint stayed while the others passed on, and 

 formed a very definite opinion, which I expressed in 

 The Sportsman. Sometimes you see the truth some- 

 times there is darkness but I saw truth that time, 

 and I offered Mr Bottomley ^1500 a year for a three 

 years' lease of Wargrave (three parts brother to Spear- 

 mint) by the next post. Mr Bottomley, who was 



