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of it I was associated with him. He had, amongst 

 other expensive and multifarious undertakings, to 

 which I shall later refer, an extensive breeding: 

 establishment. The yearlings he bred and did not 

 sell, he either trained himself, or gave them to some 

 trainer for a share in their winnings should they 

 prove successful. With me, at different times, he had 

 many horses ; and amongst them the following : 

 Traducer, Manrico, The Gillie, Isthmian, Signalman, 

 Watchbox, Countersign, and Colt by Vedette, dam by 

 Cowl out of Venus. These, with many others, were 

 our joint property. 



Traduce)' was a good horse, and if he had been second, 

 instead of being beaten, as he was, half a length for 

 second place in the Two Thousand in The Wizard's 

 year, would have won it; for the jockey who rode 

 the winner carried 2 lb. over the weight declared, and 

 would have been disqualified, just as Wells was dis- 

 qualified on Blue Gown in the Champagne Stakes at 

 Doncaster, for riding 2 lb. overweight without de- 

 claring it; only in our case, the second horse, Mr. 

 Tute's (alias Mr. Padwick's) Map was in the same 

 stable as the winner, and, as all the party had largely 

 backed the latter, no objection was made. The trial 

 of Traducer for this race showed he had a good 

 chance for it. In it he beat Promised Land, then in 

 very good form, a mile, at 16 lb.,' by a head. The 

 fact is, in the race itself he met an extraordinary 

 good horse at the distance in The Wizard; and it was 



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