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won this race (the Grand Sefton) in a canter 

 by twenty lengths, beating such good-class 

 horses as Midshipmite, Ardcarn, Fanatic, and 

 Leybourne. The extraordinary seizures — 

 which seem to be something akin to paralysis 

 — to which the horse is subject have doubtless 

 robbed him of victory on more than one 

 occasion, unfortunately. 



Mention of Cloister reminds me — and, "par 

 pai'enthese, I may say that when you are 

 writing on this subject one thing brings to 

 mind another in such a way that the difficulty 

 is to know how to leave off! — of another 

 horse belonging to Mr. Duff; I believe the 

 first he ever owned, old Edward, by King 

 Alfred (who, it well be remembered, ran second 

 to Blue Gown in the Derby). The horse was 

 twelve years old when Mr. Duff bought him 

 from Mr. Arthur Yates, and after that he 

 won over twenty races, and was running up 

 to the age of fifteen — truly a " useful slave." 



Whilst riding one of this order some years 

 ago, w^hich had certainly not been " eating 

 the bread of idleness," he made a mistake 



