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The confidence the Jealousy connections dis- 

 phiyed in the mare's chance caused her to start a hot 

 favourite at 5 to 4. Cannibal and Windsor were 

 second in demand at 6 to i each ; Frank was 

 backed at "seven," and 10 to i freely offered 

 on others. The Field tells that this Gold Cup was 

 not one of the Captain's happiest sporting days. 

 At the fall of the flag Jealousy settled clown with 

 a clear lead. On passing the stand the first time 

 the Captain, in order to avoid the deep furrow, 

 took a line a little too high up the side of the hill. 

 This brought him upon the strongest part of the 

 fence and Jealousy refusing lost fully twenty lengths. 

 Hazard and Inkerman were away in front, and 

 it was not until the brook was reached that 

 the righted Jealousy took close order with the 

 leaders. Both Emily and My Mary fell. To cut 

 the story short, there was a long tail when Jealousy 

 and Rifleman came to the last fence, from which 

 an exciting struggle ensued. The Captain was 

 first over, but Jealousy was unable to hold her own 

 up the winning field hill and eventually lost by 

 three lengths. Windsor was a bad third, Elsham 

 fourth. Hazard fifth, Cannibal sixth. The Field 

 in consolation says that Jealousy, but for the refusal 

 and the ground she had to make up, ought un- 

 doubtedly to have brought off perhaps the first of 

 Captain Machell's manysubsequently planned coups. 



