GALOPIN AND PETRARCH 



Batthyany was so fond of the colt that he could 

 not bear to run the risk of having him beaten, and 

 would not hear of matching him against Prince 

 Charlie over the T. Y. C, which John Dawson 

 was very anxious to do. The task of tackling 

 "the Prince" over his own course would have 

 been a big one indeed, though the trainer is still 

 of opinion that Galopin would have been found 

 equal to it. 



The colt was not engaged in the Two Thousand, 

 still he did not lack a sort of public trial over the 

 Rowley Mile, for during the Newmarket Second 

 Spring Meeting he ran a match for 500 sov. over 

 that course against Mr. Chaplin's Stray Shot. The 

 latter was a very moderate filly by Toxophilite 

 out of Vaga, so, though she was in receipt of 

 10 lb., it was not surprising that the result was 

 never in doubt, Galopin winning as he liked by 

 eight lengths. Still this was sufficient to assure his 

 trainer that he had wintered well, and he was 

 not subjected to any formal trial for the Derby. 

 Indeed, just at that time, there was nothing in 

 the stable good enough to make use of for that 

 purpose, but he fairly astonished John Dawson 

 in a good Yorkshire gallop round the Lime Kilns 

 one morning shortly before the Epsom Meeting. 

 He was giving what appeared to be impossible 

 weights to the three or four others engaged in the 

 gallop, yet Morris had to pull him right back, to 

 prevent him from finishing a couple of hundred 

 yards in front of them all. Quite recently I have 

 read that Galopin won the Derby " after a severe 

 finish with Claremont." Never was there a more 

 erroneous account of a race. Certainly the verdict 

 was only a length, but he had taken a very wide 

 sweep at Tattenham Corner, round which he came 

 on the extreme outside of the whole of the field, 



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