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prepare some plans. My doctor became greatly 

 interested in the scheme, and every time he paid 

 me a visit wanted to know how it was progressing. 

 There was only one thing that bothered me, and 

 that was the drainage system connected with the 

 pig-sties ! This worried me so much that at 

 last the doctor ordered me to leave the sties out 

 until I returned home. I may say here that the 

 Kingsclere stables were eventually built pretty 

 much in accordance with my plans, and the 

 pig-sty difficulty was triumphantly surmounted. 

 They constituted a striking contrast with the 

 buildings at Cannon Heath, where the stables 

 were merely converted barns, the place having 

 formerly been a farmhouse, with the usual ap- 

 purtenances. Nevertheless, the Derby winners 

 Musjid and Beadsman were quartered there. 

 Fine stables do not make fine horses. 



Adopting the advice of Sir Joseph Hawley, 

 I went to the seaside when at last I was well enough 

 to leave Doncaster, and it was Christmas when 

 I got back to Cannon Heath, to find it denuded 

 of horses. Jim Dover still had them at Ilsley, 

 and they remained with him until I felt thoroughly 

 fit. Altogether, I was " out of harness ** about 

 six months. 



Among the two-year-olds that came to me 

 from Dover's in January 1866 were the Salamanca 

 filly (by Beadsman, and afterwards named Ara- 

 peile). The Palmer (a bay colt by Beadsman out 



