LORD FALMOUTH 



Fortune. A small stake during the Houghton 

 Week, in which he had only one moderate oppo- 

 nent, enabled Charibert to leave off a winner, but, 

 unfortunately, soon after this he had a bad attack 

 of inflammation. He seemed to get over it all 

 right, but, as soon as he was put into work in the 

 following spring, it was found that he had become 

 a pronounced " whistler," and when Reconciliation 

 beat him for the Column Produce Stakes — the 

 first race in which he took part as a three-year-old, 

 and for which odds of 7 to 1 were laid on him — 

 any idea of his securing one of the classic races 

 must have been abandoned. At any rate his 

 starting price for the Two Thousand was 25 to 1, 

 and his victory by a length and a half must be 

 regarded as one of Archer's most memorable 

 triumphs. A field of fourteen finished behind him, 

 including Cadogan, Rayon d'Or, Gunnersbury, 

 Strathern, Discord, Ruperra, and Visconti, and it 

 must, I fancy, have been an ideal day for a horse 

 affected in his wind, as Charibert never earned 

 another bracket, except over a sprint course. So 

 little as 6 to 1 was accepted about him for the 

 Derby, in which he naturally made no show, and, 

 after failures at Ascot, Goodwood, and elsewhere 

 had shown him to be quite incapable of winning 

 the only sort of races in which Lord Falmouth 

 cared to compete, he was sold to ]\Ir. A^yner, which 

 did not necessitate a change of stables. In the 

 Houghton Meeting of the same season his new 

 owner put him into a little sweepstakes over the 

 Bretby Stakes course, and entered him to be sold 

 for 500 sovs., which entitled him to an allowance. 

 He just scraped through by a short head, and 

 there was no difficulty in buying him in for 550 

 guineas, not a very magnificent price for a Two 

 Thousand winner. Probably he might have been 



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