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most sporting place, and Belgium generally was responsible 

 for many good sportsmen and steeplechasers. La Senelle, the 

 mare I was painted on, was a rare good one, and I won 

 five races on her right off the reel. Chenay and Nonant were 

 also two really good four-year-olds. The two aged horses I 

 liked best of any I rode were The Doctor and Snowstorm, 

 both brilliant jumpers, and no country too big for them. On 

 the flat my favourites were Leonie, Lowlander, and Silenus. 



" Of all the foreign meetings, I give the preference to 

 Baden, which was always delightful, and everything connected 

 with it done in princely fashion." 



Just about this time considerable stir was caused in Paris 

 by a duel, in which Lord Charles Hamilton (Carlo, the '* Red " 

 Duke's brother) was one of the principals, and which arose 

 from his antagonist (in search of a quarrel) addressing Lord 

 Charles in a far too familiar manner, the result being a blow 

 and a challenge. 



" Baron Malorti," writes Mr. Crawshaw, " was one of 

 Carlo's seconds, and myself the other. We drove out seven 

 or eight miles, and, having got the combatants fixed (rapiers 

 were the weapons used), were on the point of starting, when 

 the farmer arrived, and as he would allow no fighting on his 

 land, we had to move to another secluded spot further on, 

 where we lost no time in getting to work. After a * passe ' or 

 two, a scratch was seen on the other man's arm, which at once 

 was the signal for a consultation. I, being a stranger, held my 

 tongue, until the other two gave their opinion that with such 

 a * serious ' (?) wound inflicted enough had been done. Upon 

 which I ventured an opinion that if honour was satisfied with 

 such a scratch, it was very easily satisfied, and that another 

 round or two would be more to the point. So at it they went 

 again, and another slight scratch the result, at the sight of 



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