ST. BLAISE 217 



A word or two may be interpolated here con- 

 cerning Whipper-in and Incendiary, two horses 

 who figured in most of my trials at this period. 

 They both belonged to the Duke of Westminster. 

 Apart from the races they won, their value to 

 the stable was almost incalculable because of 

 the reliability of their form in test gallops. In 

 this capacity Whipper-in was a veritable treasure. 

 So far as my recollection goes, I can say he never 

 deceived me. He could try other horses over 

 any distance up to a mile and a half, and was in 

 active service in this way for five seasons. In 

 the earlier pages of this book I have extolled the 

 merits of Xi and Lictor as trial horses, but, good 

 as they were. Whipper-in excelled them. In 

 cendiary was also a faithful assistant on the trial 

 ground. These four horses were the only ones 

 I had at Kingsclere that invariably told me a 

 true tale. Incidentally, Whipper-in won, in 

 the course of five seasons, races worth £SS^1' 

 He deserved a monument ! Fortunate, indeed, 

 is the trainer who has a horse of this character 

 in one of his boxes. Whipper-in eventually 

 went to the Argentine, where he became a fairly 

 successful stallion. 



The best of our two-year-olds in 1883 were 

 Sandiway and Duke of Richmond, both owned 

 by the Duke of Westminster. Sandiway was 

 a lovely little chestnut mare by Doncaster out 

 of Clemence. If there was any truth — I do not 



