THE DESPISED ' DULCIBELLA: 437 



Lincoln half a length in the Grand Duke Michael 

 Stakes across the flat, I think he never ran better. 

 He won the following year the only three races that 

 he ran for whilst with me — one being the Claret 

 Stakes of 200 sovs. each — and was sold to Lord 

 William Powlett, as I have described ; and thouo-h 

 he ran several times, strange to say never won a 

 race afterwards. I sold him, as I have said, because 

 I did not think he had improved as a four-year-old, 

 and the selling an exposed horse for so large a sum 

 (£2,350) was the right thing to do. 



This brings me to our joint ownership of Dulcibella, 

 taken in exchange from Lord William — an animal I 

 then valued, never having seen her, as horse-dealers do 

 ' a chopper,' to use a technical term, at nothing. On 

 telling Mr. Robinson at Epsom, next day, what I had 

 done, he wished me to keep the mare myself, saying 

 he did not want to have anything to do with her. 

 But as Lord William had valued her at £400, I 

 explained that it was onlv fair and riffht that he should 

 take his share in her ; and when he saw it in this 

 light he unhesitatingly took the half of her at £200. 

 And yet this despised mare, selected by Lord William 

 as the one of his stud to be got rid of, bought by 

 myself without being seen, and merely as the means to 

 have what I viewed as a good bargain clinched, and a 

 share in which my partner would only take with reluc- 

 tance, within five months wins the Cesarewitch easier 

 than it had ever been won before, or has been since ! 



