PRIME MINISTERS AND THEIR RACE-HORSES 



eighth year, and left a considerable fortune. It 

 was on his advice that Derby bought perhaps the 

 best animal he ever owned — Canezou — a brown 

 daughter of Melbourne and Madame Pelerine by 

 Velocipede — who herself and her sons, Paletot, 

 Fazzoletto and Cape Flyaway, gained him many 

 valuable races. Canezou won the One Thousand, 

 and in the St. Leger she was only just beaten by 

 Surplice. 



The great race of 1848 at Doncaster was long 

 remembered. Canezou, who a fortnight earlier had 

 won the Ebor St. Leger at York, was a sound 

 favourite at 7 to 4 ; the Derby winner and Flat- 

 catcher being supported at slightly more liberal 

 prices. Nine came to the post. Flatcatcher made 

 the running at a great pace with Surplice lying third 

 until the turn for home. Then Surplice and Canezou 

 raced up to the leader, and the three swept round 

 the rails at the Red House in close order. As they 

 reached the distance post Canezou asserted her- 

 self, and went rapidly to the front, while Flat- 

 catcher, beaten by the pace, gave way to Surplice, 

 who then joined issue with the mare. Locked 

 together they came abreast the stands, the dark 

 bay colt just winning by a head in a scene of popular 

 delirium. For the first time since Champion's 

 victory in 1800, a Derby winner had prevailed 

 in the St. Leger, and thus had dissolved the charm 

 which seemed to forbid the same animal to win 

 buch races. On the Friday, none the worse for 

 her severe race, Canezou was pulled out to run in the 

 Park Hill Stakes, and, with 4 to i betted on her, 

 she won easily in precisely the same time as the 

 St. Leger had taken. 



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