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of the son of Beadsman that he gained greater 

 renown after he left the Turf than he did on it. 



Madame Eglentine, the dam of The Palmer, 

 was a mare with a very peculiar temperament, 

 which, fortunately, she did not transmit to her 

 " children/' When in training she was always 

 extremely obstinate at the start of a race, and at 

 the stud invariably foaled under a tree in one of 

 the paddocks at Leybourne. Had she been 

 confined to a box on these occasions she most 

 certainly would have killed her foal. 



We now come to Red Shoes, the colt by 

 Beadsman out of Miami. The part he plays in 

 our story is that of a species of " super." As a 

 racehorse he was a nonentity, and we are concerned 

 with him only as a juvenile in 1866. After Rve 

 abortive efforts, he did manage to win a ;^5'o 

 Plate at Newmarket. The following day he 

 failed in a similar race, and two days after that 

 ran second in a Sweepstakes, " the winner to be 

 sold for 100 sovs. if demanded." The winner 

 was Mr. Chaplin's chestnut colt Satyr, by Mar- 

 syas. After the race Sir Joseph Hawley ** de- 

 manded '* Satyr, much to the annoyance of Mr. 

 Chaplin and his friends, one of whom was Lord 

 Westmoreland, whose Rose Leaf had finished 

 third. The Satyr party had, I was afterwards 

 told, won ;^7ooo over their colt, on whom odds 

 of 5 to 2 were finally laid. Naturally, they did 

 not want to lose a horse who had done them so 



