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and nothing else. But, of necessity, he could not 

 make his friends think so. Paradigm, T should add, 

 broke down in her second race, and never, so far as I 

 recollect, ran after that meeting, and was early put 

 to the stud. She became the dam of Lord Lyon, 

 Achievement, and others, and, we may conclude, did 

 General Pearson, her owner, more service there than 

 she would have done on the racecourse had she 

 continued running. 



Lord of the Isle* did not run after as a two-year- 

 old, being kept specially for his two spring engage- 

 ments — the Two Thousand and the Derby. Of his 

 performances in both these races, I think I can find 

 something to say of interest. Mr. Merry came in the 

 spring to Woody ates for the first time. After seeing 

 the horses and looking at the traininsr-fiTound, in the 

 evening we arranged the weights and selected the 

 horses that should take part in the trial, and after 

 dinner and a pleasant chat, about eleven o'clock 

 retired to rest. The next morning at four o'clock, 

 the boys — I usually had them and not jockeys in 

 trials — were weighed and sent with the four horses 

 on the Downs, there to await our arrival. AVe were 

 somewhat delayed by the fog that had suddenly 

 made its unpleasant appearance. This, after the first 

 canter, became so dense that we could scarcely dis- 

 tinguish one horse from the other. Had it not been 

 for Mr. Merry's anxiety to leave for town, the trial 

 would have been postponed, and the horses sent 



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