LAST YEARS AT KINGSCLERE 



Among the horses at Kingsclere in 1901 were 

 Mr. Alexander's Throwaway and Mr. (now 

 Lord) Faber's Pietermaritzburg. Throwaway, a 

 son of Right-away, was a two-year-old that 

 season, and won races at Bath and Liverpool. 

 At Chester in 1902 he picked up the Dee Stakes, 

 and in the autumn won the Liverpool Cup after 

 running a dead-heat with King's Courier, who, 

 a five-year-old, was conceding 8 lb. Throwaway 

 did not win a race in 1 903, and at the end of that 

 season left Kingsclere. In 1904 he won the 

 Ascot Cup, and I was very pleased indeed to see 

 him do so for his owner's sake. I may say, 

 however, that when he was under my care, 

 Throwaway was at least two stone behind 

 William the Third. 



Pietermaritzburg, by St. Simon out of Sea 

 Air, was one of several horses owned by Mr. 

 George Faber that came to me in the autumn of 

 1900. He was then a two-year-old. His only 

 race had been the Tattersall Sale Stakes at Don- 

 caster, in which he was unplaced. As a three- 



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