GLADIATEUR 



sharpening him up for Goodwood, and in this 

 opinion nearly all our present-day trainers will 

 be quite with him. Gladiateur, however, was a 

 complete exception to all ordinary rules. A 

 week seldom passed without his being lame for 

 a day or two, from the beginning to the end of 

 his career he was never really fit, and his trainer 

 very wisely decided that he might just as well do 

 a profitable gallop or two on the beautiful " going " 

 that Goodwood always affords, as put in the same 

 amount of work at home. There were only three 

 runners for the Drawing -Room Stakes, one of 

 them being Longdown, on whom Gladiateur took 

 ample revenge for the dead heat for third place 

 that they had run in the Prendergast Stakes by 

 giving him 5 lb. and a forty lengths beating. The 

 other was The Princess of Wales, who was in 

 receipt of 14 lb., and also finished "down the 

 course." Yet, unmitigated failure as she proved 

 on a race-course, this daughter of Stockwell and 

 The Bloomer was destined to make the fortune 

 of Mr. Cartwright, and earn herself undying fame 

 as the dam of Albert Victor, George Frederick, 

 Louise Victoria, and other less distinguished but 

 useful performers. 



It was fully intended to send Gladiateur to 

 York to pick up the Great Yorkshire Stakes, 

 and no great attention was paid to the fact that 

 he pulled up lame after a good gallop on the 

 Saturday preceding that race. However, on the 

 Sunday, it was discovered that this was a far worse 

 bout than usual, as he literally could not be got 

 out of the stable for two or three days. His 

 chance for the St. Leger seemed hopelessly gone, 

 and his trainer went to York on the Tuesday, 

 more for the sake of getting away from the horse, 

 and of trying to forget his bitter disappointment, 



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