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mile and a quarter two days after the Cesarewitch, and 

 training him to run the Cesarewitch Course would to 

 a certain extent prejudice his chance for that race. 



Regarding the Cambridgeshire, he was to run if he 

 was favourably weighted. Mr. Cloete asked me at what 

 weight I thought the horse could win. I replied : 

 " Isonomy won with 7 st. 4 lb. and could have won 

 with another stone. I think Paradox could win with 

 (8 St. 4 lb." It was only from comparison with what 

 [other good horses had done that I could make that 

 ^suggestion. 



The mistake was that Mr. Brodrick Cloete came to 

 the conclusion his horse could have no possible chance 

 with 8 St. 12 lb., and unfortunately scratched him im- 

 mediately on his arrival in London, and before seeing me. 

 From the time Mr. Cloete left England for Mexico to 

 the time of his return we had no communication whatever 

 with one another. 



I can only add, in justice to Mr. Brodrick Cloete, 

 that during the time he has trained in my stable his 

 racing policy has been most honourable and straight- 

 forward. J. Porter. 



Some of the patrons of the Kingsclere Stable 

 were so incensed by what had occurred that 

 there was only one possible solution of the 

 difficulty which had been so needlessly created. 

 Mr. Cloete*s horses had to leave Kingsclere at 

 the end of the season. Let me add that the 

 incident did not disturb the friendship between 

 Mr. Cloete and myself. We remained on the 

 best of terms to the day of his death. He was 

 one of the many hundreds who lost their lives in 



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