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land, and won each race. He was brought over by 

 his owner to Victoria to run for the V. E. C. Derby in 

 1888, and was unluckily second to Ensign. He ran 

 third in the Newmarket Handicap to Sedition, a rank 

 outsider, and that good horse, Lochiel; and in the 

 Australian Cup, 2J miles, he was beaten by Lochiel, 

 who carried 8sfc. 7ib. to Carbine's 8st. 61b. — a real 

 good performance for a three-year-old. 



He won the Champion Stakes, 3 mile, as a three- 

 year-old, beating Abercorn, who was then a four-year- 

 old, at w. f a. He won several races this season, 

 including the Sydney Cup, in which he carried 9st., 

 or within 41bs. of Abercorn, who finished third. This 

 race goes far to prove he was a better horse than 

 Abercorn, as he was receiving only 41bs. and giving 

 away a year. 



As a four-year-old he ran second to Bravo in the 

 Melbourne Cup, with lOst. on his back, giving the 

 winner 1st. 71b. He again won the Sydney Cup, 

 carrying 9st. 9lb. — a race the handicapper treated him 

 too leniently in. It was in the Canterbury Plate at the 

 V. 11. C. meeting he ran the only unplaced during the 

 whole of his career. Space will not permit of me 

 giving all his wins, but I can safely say he held the 

 championship as a w. f a. horse from three years old 

 until he retired from the turf. He beat all the best 

 horses over all distances, and he was as good at seven 

 furlongs or a mile as he was at two or three miles. In 



