Anecdotes of Racehorses y'j 



train them for Ascot, but " Camballo " never started 

 again. 



If these horses had been simply turned out into a bare 

 grass field and allowed to exercise themselves, there would 

 have been every chance of their being trained in time, but 

 shut up as they were like fattening bullocks, with every 

 muscle and sinew in a state of flaccidity, it would have 

 taken a year at least to get them back into racing trim. 



" Conductor," instead of being ready for Ascot, did not 

 appear on a racecourse until August 9th at Eedcar, when 

 he ran nowhere, and after starting twice more unsuccess- 

 fully, also retired to stud life. As a hunter sire, he has 

 been of the utmost value, having sired innumerable weight- 

 carrying hunters, who take naturally to jumping, and 

 boast excellent tempers, though a drawback to their 

 appearance has generally been a too liberal an allowance 

 of white. On his first appearance in the Trial Stakes at 

 Ascot, " Conductor " won, carrying 7 st. 9 lb., being then 

 three years old. "Thunder" was second with 10 st. 2 lb., 

 with several others also behind them, and Mr. Clare Vyner 

 thought he had made a good bargain when he claimed the 

 winner for £1000, but the latter never was first past the 

 judge's box again. 



" Thunder," by " Thunderbolt," was a wiry bay horse, 

 all " whipcord and wire," as the saying is, and was extra- 

 ordinarily smart, his best performance probably being the 

 winning the City and Suburban, with the heavy weight of 

 9 St. 4 lb. from the capital field of twenty-three starters. 

 No doubt he owed his victory a good deal to the wonderful 

 nerve and dash of poor Fred Archer, who hugged the rails 

 at Tottenham corner so closely, that he had to ride with his 

 left leg on the horse's neck, for fear of coming in contact 



