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the same year is a matter of turf history. But the 

 most curious part of the whole business is that Parr did 

 not give himself time to prepare the horse before Lewes 

 assuming, as we may, that the horse had been beaten for 

 want of preparation in his former races but had tried 

 and found him a good horse almost as soon as he arrived 

 at his new training- quarters. We cannot, therefore, in 

 this direction discover how the improvement came about. 



Some curious incidents in the management and running 

 of Weathergage may be briefly noticed. He first wins 

 35 in heats, then in a gentleman-rider's race Parr him- 

 self steers his favourite to victory ; rather hard work for 

 a three-year-old that had so many and such great things 

 set him to accomplish. After being tried at home, Mr. 

 Jones, of Prestbury, tries him for the Goodwood Stakes, 

 which he wins. He is then immediately despatched to 

 Lichfield, to York, and Derby, where he suffers defeat 

 in the first four races, and, as a kind of set-off to this 

 disappointment, wins the two last, both on the same day 

 one of them a mile-and-a-half race of the value of 179 ; 

 the other, the Innkeepers' Plate of 50, two miles. After 

 travelling nearly half over the British Isles in search of 

 50 plates to run for, and horses to try him with for the 

 Cesare witch a service ultimately effectually done for 

 him by Joe Miller he triumphs in the dual victory, and, 

 glutton-like, finishes up the season by winning his best 

 race with Charles Marlow on his back, in the Audley 

 End Stakes at Newmarket, giving Black Doctor his year 

 and 7 lb., and a lot of weight to Adine and others, and 

 beating them in a canter. 



Avalanche I should name as another of his treasures, 

 accidentally obtained from Captain Olliver, who gave 

 her to him for the payment of her forfeits. Little, per- 

 haps, need be said of Odd Trick and Ma 7 acca, both 



