THE PRINCE OF THE T.Y.C. 



conclusion was that she was out of all form, 

 but this idea was completely dissipated when 

 she carried off a couple of five-furlong races at 

 Epsom in the following week, and Dawson's 

 eyes were fully opened to the fact that he 

 possessed what John Scott would have designated 

 " a smasher " in Prince Charlie. Nevertheless the 

 colt still remained at " The Hovels," but was 

 put aside for a time, and merely taken out with 

 "the spares" on to the private ground, where 

 his usual work was a couple of canters and an 

 occasional slow sweating gallop. The summer 

 was a very dry one, and, as a youngster with 

 his immense frame would not stand much batter- 

 ing about, a great deal of his work was done on 

 the tan. 



One day in July Greaves saw that there was 

 something wrong, and said to the lad who was 

 riding him, " Your horse is lame, Snowy." " I 

 thought he was," was the reply ; and, in answer to 

 the question, " When was he shod last ? " it tran- 

 spired that he had been in the blacksmith's hands 

 only a day or two previously. The lameness was 

 apparently in the off fore-foot, so the shoe was 

 removed and poultices applied, and he appeared 

 to get all right again in a very few days. He 

 accordingly resumed work, still on the private 

 ground, but at the end of a fortnight or three 

 weeks was lamer than ever. This time a veter- 

 inary surgeon was called in, who pronounced the 

 shoulder to be the seat of the mischief — an opinion 

 in which Greaves did not coincide. However, the 

 colt got right again, and, when Joseph Dawson 

 came home from the York August Meeting, was 

 moving perfectly soundly. By Doncaster he was 

 worse than ever, and came out of his box one 

 morning absolutely on three legs. The vet still 



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