SALE OF IMAUVEZIN 



was wonderful. Lord Carnarvon said he would take 

 him off our hands if we would let him, and wrote a 

 cheque there and then for eleven thousand francs. 

 That was about two months before, when I had first 

 brought over Durnell to France. We won six straight 

 races with him, winning a big handicap at Maisons 

 Lafiitte, the horse carrying top weight. I may as well 

 finish about Mauvezin here. When he had got to the 

 top of the handicap he was no longer much use in 

 France, so he went over to R. C. Dawson's place at 

 Wliatcombe. 



I shall always think we ought to have won the 

 Lincolnshire Handicap, but he didn't get too well away 

 and nearly fell at the crossing when half-way home. 



It was curious how several of us missed winning a 

 packet over the horse when he took the Stewards' Cup. 

 I had miscalculated the day, and was at the Hotel 

 Cecil about half-past twelve on the Tuesday with 

 Mr Murray Griffith, who had always been a good friend 

 to me. I told him of the chance of Mauvezin and 

 that I was going down to Goodwood to put a lot of 

 money on him. He looked up at the clock : 



" You will have to hurry up to be there even three 

 hours after the race is run ; they'll be off in about two 

 hours." 



There was nothing for it but to grin and bear it, but 

 we got busy with the starting price offices and managed 

 one way and the other to get on one hundred and fifty 

 pounds, which wasn't so bad in the circumstances, 

 for he started at 10 to 1. I was glad that Lord 

 Carnarvon won a big stake over the success. I don't 

 suppose anyone ever had such a bargain for four 

 hundred and forty pounds. 



Another horse Lord Carnarvon bought in France 

 was Londres, a great big animal over seventeen hands 



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