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years old, and a winner of seven races that season at a 

 difference of only 2 1 lb., and " Camballo " won by three 

 lengths. The following spring, before the Two Thousand 

 Guineas, the pair were again tried together, this time at 

 13 lb,, and again "Camballo" won by about the same 

 distance ; as " Thunder " had just won the Great Warwick- 

 shire Handicap, he was evidently in " form," and it shows 

 what a great horse " Camballo " must then have been. He 

 won the Two Thousand Guineas in a canter, with Johnny 

 Osborne on his back, and that was the last time he came 

 to the post fit to run, for on his subsequent appearances 

 he was far from being up to the mark. 



He was coughing badly before the Derby, and had no 

 business to be on a racecourse at all, but his owner had 

 made some very big bets, and did not like to let them go 

 without at least an effort to win them. " Camballo " ran 

 as might have been expected, and then was sent over 

 to Paris to run for the Grand Prix, still coughing almost 

 as badly as ever. He came back and ran again at Ascot, 

 but of course he was utterly unfit, and after that was sent 

 to Newby Park in Yorkshire, where he was turned into a 

 loose box with a yard to it, while " Conductor " was in a 

 similar one at the back, built originally, I believe, for 

 fattening two bullocks. I happened to be at Newby in 

 the following February, riding some of Mr. Vyner's steeple- 

 chase horses in their work, and one morning when we 

 were looking at the two horses in their boxes, I asked him 

 what he intended to do with them. " Run them at 

 Ascot," he replied. I then asked how long they had been 

 in the boxes, and he replied, " Since last Ascot," where- 

 upon I remarked it was an impossibility to get them fit in 

 the time. He did not think so, and made an endeavour to 



