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Clifford became sore as he was not wearing any shoes. Unable to take the horse any further the thief left him in a farmer's field. He was quickly found and brought back to his original stable with a $ 500 reward for the capture of the thief but nothing came up afterward. It would be the first theft of a horse in Lexington since the Civil War.
331:. W.J. Cherry purchased the horse for $ 900 at Belle Meade's auction on April 27, 1891, and sold him shortly thereafter to Clifford Porter, who named the horse after himself. Although he only owned him for his first race. After he broke his maiden he was bought for $ 4,000 by Robert L Rose and Eugene Leigh.
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Clifford would hand Henry Of Navarre the final defeat of his career when he won the Oriental Handicap only 4 days later. Clifford stayed strong at 5 to win 7 of 10 races that year. But as a 6 and 7-year-old, he ran less frequently. In both years he
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where he lost all chance after missing the start. But after this, he never finished worse than third in his career ever again. After starting another streak of stakes wins he was yet again transferred to a new trainer. Eugene Leigh bought out Robert Rose's stake in the horse for $ 25,000 and handed
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Entering his 3-year-old season
Clifford had only one start under his belt from the previous year but it was a maiden victory. On January 27, 1893, he was stolen from his trainer Eugene Leigh's farm. The thief had gotten on Clifford's back and rode off with him. Riding the horse 18 miles near Paris
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25,000 people attended to watch the 3 horses race. It took 2 false starts as
Clifford initially refused to run showing more temper than he usually did. But on the third try, Domino and Henry Of Navarre broke together with Clifford just behind them. Clifford trailed the majority of the race until
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He'd finally reach his limit in start number 12 when he was forced to carry 140 pounds in the Austin
Handicap. Resulting in a third-place finish in which the winner was carrying only 104 pounds. It turned out to be only a small hiccup as he returned very quickly to take a $ 7,000 sweepstakes at
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won exactly 3 races still in handicap races. He would have one final battle with Henry Of
Navarre at age 6 in the Suburban Handicap with Henry Of Navarre winning and Clifford finishing third. At 7 his two notable wins were in the Kearney Handicap where he dead-heated with
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Domino started to fade. He passed the tired horse who ended up being 10 lengths behind his rivals and chased after Henry Of
Navarre. He couldn't catch him and would be held off by 3/4 of a length. By the end of the year, Clifford had won 10 races and took home
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where he carried top weight and defeated Ben Brush the previous year's
Kentucky Derby winner which would also be his final career win. But his final race was in the Omnium Handicap where he finished third and came up sore forcing his retirement.
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just a start later. Clifford then got to race Henry Of
Navarre in their own match race only a week after. This time Clifford got the nose over Henry Of Navarre setting the stage for all 3 to race together.
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said about him, "As a yearling he was one of the poorest-looking animals of the lot in which he was offered for sale, and nothing great was expected of him." However, he ultimately became, according to the
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Hawthorne shortly after. His last win that year came on
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180:Earnings
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