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horse gets patted in the paddock, he does not 

 consider that the smallest apology is due from, 

 him. Besides, this story is true, and ' Magna 

 est Veritas et prevalebit.' 



On the following Saturday Eeginald re- 

 ceived a letter from his trainer, telling him 

 that Fortitude had been coughing since his 

 return from Epsom, and also was suffering 

 from cracked heels. This quite decided 

 Eeginald not to run the horse at Ascot, but 

 to keep him for the Leger, for which race 

 he backed him at TattersalFs, on the Monday 

 after the Derby, in thousands, at eight to one. 



Wadding, who got so knocked about in 

 the Grand National Hunters' Steeplechase, 

 had now been staying at Radbrook for the 

 last three weeks, and had become very much 

 enamoured of Turner's daughter, a comely 

 Mendaleshire lass of nineteen summers. He 

 asked Turner if he would allow him to pay 

 his addresses to her; but Turner, who had 

 heard rumours that Reginald's fall in the big 

 race the first day was due to Wadding pulling 



