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inclined to regard his geese as swans, and I remember 

 discounting his estimate of Santoi, who, however, 

 presently gave abundant evidence that the estimate was 

 not by any means too exalted. For the Salisbury 

 Stakes of 1899 Santoi was not expected. A boy 

 named Pickles had the mount and as the phrase runs 

 " there was no money for him." He was merely 

 indeed being introduced to the racecourse, nor was 

 his chance at his second attempt, for a Maiden Plate 

 at Redcar, regarded as other than remote. He came 

 on. T. Loates rode him in the Crowborough Nursery 

 at Lingfield, which he won from a 6 to 4 favourite in 

 Minerette, and for the rest of the season he remained 

 busy, missing the Orleans Nursery at Sandown, but 

 carrying home his 8 st. 11 lb. in the Grange Nursery 

 at Gatwick. In two other Nurseries he was over- 

 weighted. Of the nine races he ran as a three-year- 

 old he won four in good company, if not so good as 

 that which he encountered afterwards. For the 

 Twickenham Handicap at Sandown he just got home 

 with nothing to spare, and Sloan on an even money 

 favourite Joubert beat him for the opening race at the 

 Epsom Summer Meeting. Lord Derby's Crestfallen, 

 so often quoted as an example of a perfect name, by 

 Ocean Wave — Dolores, won the Ascot High Weight 

 Handicap, Santoi second, but George Edwardes 

 secured the Brighton Cup from the subsequent City 

 and Suburban winner First Principal, as also the 



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