THE PRINCE OF THE T.Y.C. 



home at the time, so the youngster was received 

 by Greaves, who was not greatly impressed 

 with his appearance, and relegated him to " The 

 Hovels," a range of boxes which ran between 

 one of the Bedford Lodge paddocks and the 

 Sefton Stud. " What do you think of him ? ' 

 asked Dawson on his return. " Well, we shall 

 want a ladder to get at him," was Greaves's reply. 

 On seeing him for the first time the trainer 

 was even less in love with him than his factotum 

 had been, and " I'll send him back " was his hasty 

 resolve. Happily, however, before taking this 

 extreme measure, he ordered the colt to -be 

 turned out in a paddock, and a specimen of his 

 action as he galloped round caused him to alter 

 his opinion altogether. For such a big one he was 

 a marvellous mover, and, even when he attained 

 his full height of seventeen hands, he always 

 possessed the action of a blood pony. It almost 

 goes without saying that he did not come to 

 hand very quickly, and even from his yearling 

 days there was always a weakness in his near 

 knee, so that he required very careful treatment. 

 Thus it happened that he was never tried until 

 April 1871, when he was a two-year-old. On the 

 same day that Revoke was tried for the City 

 and Suburban, for which he ran second to Jack 

 Spigot, Prince Charlie was galloped with Cocoa 

 Nut. The mare was then a five-year-old, and was 

 only asked to give the youngster 10 lb. over a 

 little more than half a mile on the Lime Kilns. 

 They got off pretty well together, but had 

 travelled little more than a furlong when " The 

 Prince" was lengths in front, and the trial had 

 degenerated into such a farce that Joseph Dawson 

 held up his hand and stopped it. Cocoa Nut had 

 not run in public that season, and the natural 



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