GEORGE FREDERICK 



was, would never give in, and the wonderful game- 

 ness that had characterised him all through his 

 career never deserted liim to the last. " Good 

 morning, Tom," said Mr. Cartwright. *' Mornin', 

 Squire." " You don't look very fit, Tom ; I think 

 you should go to bed." The old man said nothing 

 for fully a couple of minutes, then got solemnly up, 

 and with a "D — d if I don't, Squire," returned 

 to bed, and remained there for four -and -twenty 

 hours. 



There were twenty runners for the Middle Park 

 Plate of that season, but quality was not parti- 

 cularly well represented, and Newry, who beat 

 Spectator by a length, with Marsworth and 

 Couronne de Fer running a dead-heat for third 

 place a head behind the second, never won a race 

 of any kind either before or afterwards. Never- 

 theless George Frederick, who was still much 

 above himself, did not do more than make a 

 respectable show, finishing close up with the dead- 

 heaters. After the Middle Park Plate George 

 Frederick and Louise Victoria remained at New- 

 market for the Houghton Meeting under the care 

 of Leader, and the former did some of the strongest 

 gallops he had yet had. When, therefore, he came 

 out for the Criterion Stakes he was lighter than he 

 had been all the season, and more nearly resembled 

 a trained horse, but the work that ought to have 

 extended over three months had been crowded into 

 five weeks, and constantly sweating him had made 

 him weak and stale, so that he wound up his two- 

 year-old season by running unplaced to 5liss Toto. 

 Tom Oliver died in February 1874, and was 

 succeeded by Leader, who had virtually managed 

 everything for some months prior to that date. 

 George Frederick wintered remarkably well, but 

 put on a terrible amount of flesh, and Leader's 



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