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weight to Adine and others, and beating them in a 

 canter. 



Avalanche I should name as another of his 

 treasures, accidentally obtained from Captain Olliver, 

 who gave her to him for the payment of her forfeits. 

 Little, perhaps, need be said of Odd Trick and Malacca, 

 both Cambridgeshire winners, unless it be that the 

 former, like most of its predecessors, had plenty to 

 do, though the work must have been injudiciously 

 administered. He won the traditional .€15 in two 

 heats ; and, as no one dared oppose him, cantered 

 over for the Queen's Plate the same day. His platers 

 were too numerous to mention ; it must suffice to say 

 that though they won many races, they could not as 

 a whole have proved tinancial successes. 



I have, I think, plainly shown in my description of 

 the horses and their eccentricities of running, that 

 something must have been wrong in their prepara- 

 tion. This might easily arise, if in no other way, 

 from the continued absence of the master from home. 

 No matter what races he had his horses engaged in, 

 nothing would keep him from personally attending a 

 selling meeting with his platers, to the injury of the 

 horses he left behind him. He did not, in short, err 

 so much in mistaking the merits of his horses, as in 

 not properly preparing them, as shown in the case of 

 Fisherman, Saucebox and Mortimer. Nor was it that 

 he worked them too little, but that he did so 

 injudiciously at inrproper times. He would most 



