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but not paid for, and her export certificate had been 

 transferred by the defaulting purchasers to another mare. 

 I did my best with two successive senior stewards of the 

 Jockey Club, one of whom was Lord Durham, to get 

 Messrs Weatherby to straighten out the trouble, but 

 the late Mr Edward Weatherby was like Gallic, who 

 "cared for none of these things." Finally came Lord 

 Harewood as senior steward, and he devised a scheme 

 to which he got Mr Edward Weatherby to agree, and 

 this was a memorable performance on the part of Lord 

 Harewood. 



The scheme was that if I could get the identity of 

 Pentecost proved in a court of law she should be re- 

 instated in the Stud Book. 



It may be that my ability to bring about such a legal 

 issue was doubted. But, before long, the late M. 

 Halbronn, who was equally concerned with me, for he 

 laboured under the imputation of having advertised our 

 mare with a false pedigree, fell in with our plan of 

 campaign that he should bring an action for damages 

 against me for having induced him to offer a mare with 

 a false pedigree ; we should brief good counsel on both 

 sides and divide the expenses. 



So the case came on before the late Mr Justice Gains- 

 ford Bruce, and the identity of Pentecost was proved up 

 to the hilt, as also that she had never left England. 

 Judgment was given with costs against M. Halbronn, 

 and Messrs Weatherby restored Pentecost to the Stud 

 Book, after which the bogus Pentecost was removed 

 from the French Stud Book. All this cost me and M. 

 Halbronn a lot of money, to correct the Stud Book, and 

 Pentecost died soon afterwards, but the Stud Book 

 French and English would never have been corrected 



