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colt, The Baron, who was bred in Ireland, and 

 never came to this country until he put in an 

 appearance at the Liverpool July Meeting, to run 

 for the Liverpool St Leger. It was won by Mr 

 St Paul's Mentor (a bad - tempered brute, who 

 was said to have nearly killed Mat Dawson in his 

 brother Tom's stables at Middleham), with Sir R. 

 Bulkeley's Pantasa second and Lord Eglinton's 

 Vaudeville third — four others not placed. As 

 The Baron was being led off the course, John 

 Scott, after inspecting him long and keenly, said 

 to Mr Watts, his owner, " If you will send that 

 horse to Whitewall without delay, he shall win 

 the Doncaster Leger for you." Mr Watts took 

 the great Yorkshire trainer at his word, the re- 

 sult being known to all. The Liverpool St Leger 

 was run on July 18, and the Doncaster St Leger 

 on Se^Dt ember 17, so that John Scott had less than 

 nine weeks in which to effect a transformation in 

 the Irish horse. He certainly worked wonders by 

 his skilful preparation of The Baron for the Don- 

 caster St Leger and Cesarewitch ; and it is note- 

 worthy that after the latter race, The Baron, 

 for whom Mr E. B. Clark, familiarly known as 

 " D'Orsay Clark," immediately gave £4000, never 

 won again in the hands of another trainer. 



When Lord George came, as usual, to the Turf 

 Tavern to look at his horses in the evening after 

 the St Leger, he remarked to me in a low voice, 

 " I have had rather a bad day, as I backed Miss 



