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ran for it or any other handicap. To show this, I need 

 only remark that he gave Lucy Glitters (who had just 

 run third in the St. Leger, being only beaten a length and 

 three-quarters horn Iroquois) 2J st., Tristan 19 lb., Corrie 

 Hoy 37 lb. : these the next year were about the two best 

 four-year-olds in England. Moreover, he gave Wallenstein 

 and Piraeus t two fairly good four-year-olds, 29 and 35 lb. 

 respectively; and Etona II. 44 lb., a horse that had won 

 a Welter Handicap with 9 st. 4 lb. on him, and having 

 winners of several races behind him. Besides, in the thirty- 

 one horses that ran in the Cambridgeshire that year were 

 Bend Or (winner of the Derby in 1880), Peter, Pctroncl, 

 Scobell, and many other of our fastest horses. Foxhall 

 evidently was thus 16 or 18 lb. better than Iroquois, 

 winner of that year's Derby and St. Leger. For Bend Or 

 in the Cambridgeshire gave Foxhall 8 lb. for the year, 

 and received more than that beating ; and to Scobell Fox- 

 hall gave 15 lb. and 5 or 7 lb. beating. Bend Or gave 

 Iroquois 14 lb. in the Champion Stakes, and Scobell met 

 him at even weights, and both defeated him easily. 



I have said nothing about Tristan's performance on 

 -this occasion ; but I may refer to it, for many people 

 have said that he was unlucky in being beaten, and that 

 Foxhall was fortunate in winning. But this opinion is 

 entirely fallacious. To see this we have only to look at 

 Tristan s running with Scobell, when the latter beat him 

 at even weights easily ; and as I have before shown that 

 Foxhall was at least 19 to 20 lb. better than Scobell, it 

 follows that be must have been that much better than 

 Tristan, and therefore that the best horse won, and with- 

 out the assistance of luck, which at times is very useful 

 and welcome to us all when it comes. 



It has always been my contention, that to win a Cam- 

 bridgeshire you must have an animal that can stay, and 



