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Occasionally, too, he could be very severe 

 in his observations. In that phenomenal 

 year, 1887, when the Man ton horses were 

 fairly sweeping the board, after having ex- 

 perienced a long spell of adverse fortune — 

 always borne by the Duke of Beaufort with- 

 out a murmur, a thing which could not be 

 truthfully said of the Duchess of Montrose — - 

 the shrewd old trainer was watching the 

 unsaddling of a horse belonging to the 

 latter, which had just won a race at 

 Goodwood, when her Grace came down from 

 the Stand, and shaking hands with Taylor, 

 exclaimed — 



" What a wonderful trainer you are ! " 



" Yes, your Grace — ivlien I tvin ! " was the 

 reply. 



Whilst I was at Manton, we rode together 

 one morning across the Downs, and Taylor 

 pointed out to me the exact course over 

 which Teddington's wonderful Derl)y trial 

 took place at dawn of day. Teddington 

 met Storyteller at level weights, gave two 

 stone to Gladiole, 21 lbs. to the Ban, and 6 



