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the same privilege was extended to Goater, one 

 of whose patrons was Mr. Lambert, who, in 

 1858, bought from Mr. Pad wick the then 

 three-year-olds Rocket and Queenstown, paying 

 ;^8oo for the two. The former was a colt by 

 Chatham, son of The Colonel ; the latter a 

 daughter of Annandale. Neither of them won 

 a race as a two-year-old; indeed, they were both 

 maidens when they became Mr. Lambert's 

 property. Lambert disposed of half his share 

 in Rocket to his friend Hodgman, and the latter 

 sold a moiety of his share to Edward Green. 

 Until the summer of his three-year-old days 

 Rocket was regarded, or treated, as a sprinter; 

 but in some way it was discovered that he was 

 really a stayer. The confederates thereupon 

 resolved to put him in the Cesarewitch, and, 

 carrying 6 st. 4 lb., he won that race by a head 

 from Prioress and The Brewer, who dead-heated 

 for second place. 



Clydesdale's only race as a two-year-old was 

 a Biennial at Ascot, which he won. The follow- 

 ing year he finished third in the Two Thousand 

 Guineas to Sir Joseph Hawley's FitzRoland and 

 Lord Ribblesdale's The Happy Land, beaten a 

 length and a half and four lengths. The three 

 jockeys were Wells, Fordham, and Goater. 

 Clydesdale started an equal first favourite with 

 The Peer. Odds of 16 to i were laid against 

 FitzRoland, and Sir Joseph Hawley was as 



