A SUCCESSFUL SALESMAN. 



discrimination, not perhaps unaided by good fortune, 

 in his purchases. I have now to show that the same 

 shrewdness or good luck attended his sales. Kangaroo 

 was the sensational horse at Newmarket when he beat 

 the Duke of Beaufort's Koenig and eighteen others for 

 the Newmarket Biennial in the Craven Meeting ; and 

 the Marquis of Hastings purchased him of Mr. Pad wick 

 for £11,000, the highest price ever given for a three- 

 year-old in this or any other country, so far as I have 

 been able to ascertain. Strange to say, though I 

 imagine a very sound horse, Kangaroo never won a 

 £50 race after, being no doubt a bad one, and not 

 within twenty-one pounds of a racehorse. He started 

 for the Derby at 1,000 to 10, and was beat easily in 

 that and other smaller races. Again, another of his 

 horses, Elmstliorpe, which won him the Molecombe at 

 Goodwood and the Paitlancl Stakes at Newmarket, 

 was sold to Mr. Geo. "Whieldon for £3,000 ; and, 

 unluckily for his new owner, died mad, just after he 

 had purchased him, from disease of the brain, which 

 was found on a post-mortem examination to have 

 softened to a semi-fluid state. And if, with his 

 purchase of Oulston, Mr. Elwes was rather more 

 fortunate — for he afterwards won him the Drawing- 

 room Stakes at Goodwood, and so brought him back 

 some of the £8,000 he gave Mr. Padwick for him — yet 

 in no other race did he carry his new owner's colour 

 to victory. 



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