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It appeared that, in the year 1834, Farrall, the 

 trainer at Epsom, and who trained and managed 

 Mr. Holbrook's horses, named a colt for a stake 

 at Epsom, to be run for in 1836, with the follow- 

 ing pedigree : — ** Colt by Camel, out of Fancy by 

 Phantom ;" whereas his real pedigree was that in 

 which he was entered at Goodwood, which was as 

 follows : — " Br. c. Loutherbourg, by Mameluke, 

 dam (foaled in 1 828) by Smolensko, out of Miss 

 Chance by Trinidad ; three years old," 



At the request of Lord Exeter, the inquiry was 

 undertaken by Lords Jersey and Wharncliffe, who 

 drew up a report unfavourable to Mr. Theobald's 

 case, on the grounds of insufficiency of evidence, 

 and that Mr. Theobald refused to allow them to 

 examine his stud book containing the entries which 

 concerned Mr. Holbrook's mares. Mr. Theobald, 

 upon being asked by these noblemen why he had 

 entered his horse for the Selling Plate at Good- 

 wood, in 1837, under the second pedigree, replied, 

 " that he did so, because he had been objected to 

 at Epsom in the previous year, and that he knew 

 he was got by Mameluke, and not by Camel, out 

 of Fancy ; and that Fancy was by Smolensko out 

 of Miss Chance, &c., although she had run as 

 being by Phantom out of Miss Skim, and as half 

 sister to Fashion, which mare was so bred." 



In consequence of this report. Lord Exeter di- 

 rected the stakes to be withheld till he should have 

 taken the opinion of tlie Jockey Club on the ques- 



