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Handicap, which he won from a large field, being ridden by 

 young Jarvis, the same boy who steered Allbrook in the 

 Cambridgeshire, won by Sabinus. 



Hardly, however, had his backers had time to count their 

 winnings when their joy was turned to sorrow by the news 

 that it was a case of "No race," the horses having gone off 

 before the starter dropped his flag. 



Accordingly, it had to be run over again, and this time 

 Langley, who carried plenty of weight, was just beaten. 



After this he was sold to Colonel Byrne, for whom, as we 

 have said, he won a lot of steeplechases at Sandown Park and 

 elsewhere, being ridden on each occasion by Lord Queensberry. 



Those who witnessed it will never forget the scene at 

 Stockbridge many years ago, on the day devoted to the 

 Bibury Club, when, disgusted with the performance of the 

 horse he had ridden in a race, the irate Q. gave the animal in 

 question a cut with his whip on dismounting, and sent him 

 about his business, at the same time informing the nomadic 

 gentry standing round that whoever caught him was welcome 

 to keep him. 



That the Gippos did not wait for a second bidding goes 

 without saying, and in less time than it takes to write this, 

 a score or more of them had started in hot pursuit of the 

 runaway, now careering gaily over the downs. 



Well do we remember, too, in later years seeing Q. and 

 Lord Marcus Beresford hurry off in their respective dog- 

 carts at the close of the day's racing at Sandown Park, to 

 decide a bet which should arrive first at Epsom, at which 

 place they were both residing at the time. 



How many traps they ran into during the journey we 

 should be sorry to state. Suffice it to say that, after a bumping 

 race, Lord Marcus won. 



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