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home convinced his connections that he was 

 an arrant rogue, and after giving him one more 

 chance in the Gimcrack Stakes at York with 

 the same result, Reginald was so sick of him 

 that he told his trainer to sell him. 



Now, there are always a lot of clever people 

 connected with the Turf, who think they can do 

 more with a horse than those in whose hands 

 the horse may happen to be, and this was no 

 exception to the rule. A couple of bookmakers 

 who did not bear the best of reputations, but 

 who were remarkably shrewd men and who 

 were acquainted with Reginald's trainer, offered 

 a price for the horse, and he was immediately 

 transferred to their stable, about six miles off. 

 Meanwhile Reginald's other two-year-old kept 

 gradually improving, and was quoted all 

 through the winter months at twenty-five to 

 one for the Derby. 



Independent had been in regular training 

 since the first of March, and both Reginald and 

 Acton thought that he would run a very good 

 horse in the Grand National Hunt. The meet- 



