112 FLAT-RACING EXPLAINED. 



and therefore, in only getting second, half a length 

 behind Teufel, St. Frusquin ran the very worst race 

 of his life as a race horse. The extraordinary part 

 of the business was that when Teiifel passed the 

 winning-post a winner, St. Frusquin should have 

 been, on his merits, just twelve and a half lengths 

 in front, then to have eased up, and practically on 

 his way to weigh in. 



My readers will remember that on that same day 

 in the following week St. Frusquin won the Middle 

 Park Plate at Newmarket, and what he should 

 have done, and more than done at Kempton, he 

 accomplished at the former place, thus proving to 

 demonstration there was no justification from any 

 point of view for what had happened at Kempton, 

 as I have said. 



To have been deprived of a stake worth £4,000 

 was bad enough in all conscience for an owner 

 under the circumstances, but those having more 

 reason to complain, perhaps, were people asso- 

 ciated with the great army of racing investors, 

 whose admiration of a reputed good one never stops 

 short of the employment of pen and pencil, in the 

 cause which brings bookmakers and backers into 

 what is called "healthful contest." That Teufel 

 should have become the hope of the future, from 

 a speculative point of view, with a multitude of 

 people, in a sense, was not to be wondered at, for 



