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her in good stead, and I was able to draw the race as close 

 as I pleased. 



That evening I was offered and refused a thousand 

 pounds for the mare, but I eventually agreed to lease her 

 for one year for £400, The lease was duly drawn up 

 and the mare delivered over, but a sad fate was in store 

 for her. In the very first race she ran for her new owners, 

 on the flat at the Maze, she broke a leg and had to be 

 destroyed. 



Thinking that it was rather hard upon the other party 

 to the contract, although I had lost my mare, I returned 

 them £100. Gratitude, however, is said to be for favours 

 to come and not for favours past, and as a report was 

 afterwards bruited about that I had not returned any 

 money, I began to feel sorry I had not kept it, as I had 

 the credit of having done so, and I needed it myself. 



Poor " La Marchesa " also met with a fearful accident 

 shortly afterwards, which nearly put an end to her also. 

 She was an unlucky mare, as she first cut an artery in a 

 hind-leg, in the middle of the Wicklow Mountains one day 

 when we had run a hare there. I was entirely alone, 

 without any chance of assistance, and had the greatest 

 difliculty in arresting the copious bleeding. ISTo sooner 

 had she recovered from this accident than I took her out 

 one day to lead her over the banks and ditches in the 

 neighbourhood of Dublin, when an accident happened, 

 which is thus related in The Field newspaper, 20th 

 December 1890 :— 



"Eecovery of Horse from Serious Wound. 



" Sir, — Having been requested by several friends to 

 make public a very interesting case of successful treatment 



