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third, at 5 lb. How he could do this I never could 

 make out ; for Dulcibella could give him two stone 

 before he ran for it, and did so on his return to 

 Woodyates. Yet directly after the race all the world 

 knew, except myself, that I had thrown away both 

 the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire in consequence 

 of my not having entered him for them. 



The fact is, although I forgot to mention it to any- 

 one else besides Mr. Parker, Sutherland had been sent 

 to Doncaster for the sole purpose of finding out how 

 good or how bad he might be, in order that I might 

 have a line for Dulcibella from his running. And, 

 notwithstanding his excellent performance there, we 

 sold him to Mr. Campbell Wyndham, with the con- 

 dition that he was not to leave my stable until after 

 the Royal Stakes at Newmarket, half of which the 

 vendor was to have if he won. He won the race and 

 left me, but was never afterwards a winner. Here 

 was another mystery. How was it that in this race 

 he could beat horses that could run, such as Baron 

 "Rothschild's King of Diamonds, the winner of several 

 races, and Mr. Merry's Trovatore, who won six races 

 that year, and yet, being the soundest horse in 

 England, his owner could find no race which he could 

 win ? 



Tame Deer won several little races. He once 

 beat the redoubtable Fisherman at 3 lb., at Lincoln, 

 to which place he had been sent merely to get a 

 line for One Act for the Spring Handicaps. He 



