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and, taking a fancy to him, bought him. Passed 

 on to ** Mr. Hamilton " (a name assumed by 

 Mr. Blake, I think), his first race was the Derby 

 of 1 861, and, ridden by Jim Goater, he finished 

 fourth to Kettledrum, Dundee, and Diophantus. 

 He was only beaten a length, a head, and a neck. 

 Well backed for the St. Leger, he again ran 

 unplaced. He won the Oatlands at Newmarket 

 that year, and a Queen's Plate at Lincoln in 

 1862, while in the latter season he was fourth in 

 the Cambridgeshire. He afterwards became the 

 property of Lord Westmoreland, for whom he 

 won some minor races; but he disappointed us, 

 because at one time he looked like developing 

 into a good horse. 



Among the few horses Mr. Savile had in 

 training at Findon was The Ranger, a brown colt 

 by Voltigeur out of Skirmisher's dam. He did 

 not run as a two -year- old, but the following 

 season, 1863, after winning the Biennial at 

 Newmarket, and finishing unplaced in the Derby 

 to Macaroni and Lord Clifden, he gained 

 notoriety by winning the first Grand Prix de 

 Paris. I was in charge of him during that 

 trip. It was my first visit to Paris. Other 

 English horses in the race were Lord Clifden 

 and Saccharometer. Nobody was more delighted 

 than George Fordham when he learned that Lord 

 Clifden (who finished fifth only) had suffered defeat. 

 He had been roundly scolded for ** allowing " 



