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bought her from him and I sold a half share to a 

 Mrs. Ambrose Clark. She was in a race at York. 

 I wired to Mrs. Clark in America asking her if 

 she would care to sell her share, which she did. 

 This all happened a short time before the race, so, 

 to avoid any trouble, I wired to Weatherbys office 

 to say the mare was my sole property. She won 

 all right, but Lord Glaneley, whose horse was 

 favourite, was second and he objected to mine. 

 His objection plea was described as wrongful- 

 ownership. You see, this mare had just been 

 entered in Captain Lowenstein's name and then as 

 Mrs. Clark's. Anyhow, I met Lord Glaneley 

 in the sale paddock at Doncaster the following 

 week, and he said how much he regretted having 

 to object : " But, you see, Bert, so many of my 

 friends had backed mine, and so I was sort of 

 bound to do it, but I had met Mr. Weatherby just 

 before and he told me I had nothing to fear." 



We went before the Stewards at Doncaster, and I 

 remember Lord Hamilton was again the Chief 

 Steward. Anyhow, they rejected the objection 

 and fined Lord Glaneley £2S. I remember 

 meeting Lord Hamilton in the paddock at the 

 races, and he came across to me and said : " Now, 

 if I were you, Bert, I should give up racing. You 

 seem to be all the time in trouble." He was a 

 charming man, and a very good customer of mine. 



I bred a very useful horse out of Wild Rose. 

 I think we named him Rose Wreath, but as a 



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