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never understand, for he had speed and was tried to stay. 

 He was backed for both races before the first was run, 

 but being beat in the Cesarewitch, was driven to extreme 

 odds in the other. To show that the Cesarewitch was 

 wrong, I may mention that in it Crown Pigeon beat him 

 at 2 st. at least one hundred yards; and in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire, at 1 Ib. less, Sultan beat his former victor 

 as far. This I think requires no further demonstra- 

 tion. 



The last of the giants comes Foxhall, who, as a three- 

 year-old, won the race in 1881, with the crushing impost 

 of 9 st., the heaviest weight that was ever carried to 

 victory in it by any three-year-old mare or gelding. Fox- 

 hall was only tried once whilst I had him, when he 

 showed himself a really good horse, giving Don Fulano 

 1 Ib. and two others a lot more weight, and beating them 

 all a mile and a quarter with the greatest ease Don 

 Fulano by two lengths, and the rest by two hundred 

 yards. Mr. Bathgate, Mr. Keene's representative, and 

 myself thought, from this, that he would win the Grand 

 Duke Michael Stakes, the race for which he was specially 

 tried. In it, as it turned out, Foxhall gave Don Fulano 

 7 Ib., and apparently a 21 Ib. beating ; and the latter 

 looked a stone better than Ishmael, who was thought, 

 from his running second to Scobell in the Great Foal 

 Stakes on the Tuesday before, beating Cameliard, Thebais, 

 and Bal Gal, to be almost certain to win ; though the 

 French division thought Maskelyne, who was said to be 

 much improved, would beat them both. Foxhall' s hollow 

 victory here made him look like winning the Cesarewitch, 

 which he did ; and the way in which he in this race beat 

 Chippendale and others made me think well of his chance 

 for the Cambridgeshire. 



In the latter race he met the very best field that ever 



