126 THE PURCHASE OF YEARLINGS. 
her as too light, without legs sufficiently strong to carry even. 
so weak a body. He refused to have her, and no doubt 
there was much truth in his opinion. Yet she was racing like 
and evenly shaped, and if nothing else, she looked like going 
fast; so my father had to keep her, and afterwards sold a 
moiety of her to Mr. Gully. This wretched-looking under- 
sized ‘‘weed” that the astute nobleman would have nothing 
to do with, was Afendicant, the best animal of her year; the 
winner of the One Thousand and The Oaks, besides many 
other races. She was better than Pyrrhus the First, the 
winner of that year’s Derby, of the truth of which assertion 
there can be no doubt, for they belonged to the same owners 
and they said so. Here is aremarkable instance of two 
acknowledged judges disagreeing as to the latent merits of 
one of the best yearlings in the world; one being in raptures 
with her looks and blood, whilst the other disliked one if not 
both. The sincerity of their declarations on this point was 
supported by their unwavering faith in their judgment ; the 
one rejected and the other bought her. 
With this case before us, how can we trust the judgment of 
any individual? Swweedmeat, I am told, did not fetch £100 as 
a yearling, and many a noted good one has been sold for half 
that sum. Venzson was so small that the late Lord Lonsdale 
would not send him to the sale with the rest of his yearlings; 
and he was afterwards purchased privately by my father. 
Foe Miller, in the month of July, looked more like a foal than 
a yearling. Musyid returned to his paddock after having been 
seen by all the best judges at Doncaster, for the want of a 
purchaser at 150 guineas ; at which sum the late Sir Joseph 
Hawley bought him some time afterwards. Glenlivat was 
bought for 1,000 guineas, a high figure in those days, but he 
only won once by walking over, after running a dead heat with 
