GALOPIN AND PETRARCH 



upon trying him for the Two Thousand before he 

 was more than half fit, a proceeding which John 

 Dawson opposed very strongly, so strongly in fact 

 that at last Lord Dupplin asked, " Am I master or 

 are you ? " When an employer adopts this tone 

 there is nothing more to be said, so the trial took 

 place, and Kaleidoscope beat his new stable 

 companion by some half dozen lengths. The 

 result of this gallop was very disastrous, as Morris, 

 the first jockey to the stable, was put up on the 

 winner, who was backed down to 3 to 1, whilst 

 Petrarch, with Luke in the saddle, was virtually 

 friendless at 20 to 1. Even Dawson, though 

 feeling pretty sure that the result of the trial was' 

 all wrong, allowed himself to be led away, and had 

 £lOO on Kaleidoscope, so Petrarch's easy three 

 lengths victory from Julius Caesar, with the 

 favourite a moderate third, was by no means a 

 cause of unmixed jubilation for either owner or 

 trainer. The colt's indifferent display in the 

 Derby is very easily explained. He was always 

 extremely delicate, and suffered very much from 

 a disease of the kidneys. This was worse than 

 usual between the Two Thousand and Derby, and, 

 with that curious prescience of defeat which so 

 many horses appear to possess, he obstinately 

 refused to come out of his box to go to Epsom. 

 Nearly two hours were spent in fruitless attempts 

 to get him to budge, and Dawson, in despair, was 

 just sending for a couple of masons to pull down 

 the front of the box, when he suddenly capitulated, 

 and walked out. There is not the least doubt that 

 he was by no means up to the mark when he ran 

 for the Derby, though I do not think that he 

 would have beaten Kisber under any circum- 

 stances, for the Hungarian representative was a 

 very great horse on that day, and very few on the 



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