SUCCESSES OF LCW-PRICED YEARLINGS. 125 
apiece. However, this is an error any one may fall into ; 
for there is no method of detecting the existence of the 
defect before purchasing, unless, indeed,. surreptitiously 
through the attendant. 
For one, Promised Land,I gave this price; or rather I 
should say, I gave Mr. Robinson £500 for half of him, and he 
was a fortune to both of us. Ihave bought many cheaper ones, 
such as Brigantine for 150 guineas; and indeed, had always 
an objection to paying long prices in so risky a matter. 
Amongst good bargains in yearlings, I may mention Schzsin 
for twenty guineas, bought at Doncaster at public auction on 
the sale of the late Lord Clifden’s horses. She won me many 
thousands of pounds, and her victories included the Queen's 
Vase at Ascot, and the Somersetshire Stakes at Bath. I 
sold her afterwards for £1,500. But the very smallest sum 1 
ever gave for a yearling was ten guineas for Blue Rock, who 
won me many races, including the Great Eastern Handicap 
at Newmarket, and Cup at Shrewsbury. On the occasion of 
his winning the former race, he slept in London, went down 
to Newmarket by train in the morning, and returned to his 
stable at night without sustaining the least harm. 
It is a very common expression that Mr. So-and-So is a 
first-rate judge of yearlings, and on every fortunate purchase 
his praises are sounded everywhere, though -little is ever said 
of his mistakes. The late Lord George Bentinck was always 
looked on as one of the best judges of his day; he certainly 
bought many good, and it may be added, many bad ones. 
My father, with whom he then trained, bought most of his 
lordship’s yearlings for him. One of his purchases was 
a filly by Touchstone out of Lady Moor Carew, which was 
bought privately of Mr. Whitworth for 300 guineas. It 
appeared that his lordship had previously seen and condemned 
