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RACING. 

 On May 17, 1888. 



were tried together T.Y.C., the first named winning cleverly 

 by a neck. With two such artists up it must have been a 

 treat to witness. This may not seem much to talk about, 

 though it was nq despicable form to be within a stone of the 

 stable flyer ; but on September 8, 



were tried five-and-a-half furlongs on the Limekilns, Donovan 

 winning all out by a neck, two lengths between second and 

 third. It was no fluke either, since on June 21 Melanion had 

 been tried with Maiden Belle and a lot of others, when the 

 mare, giving him 7 lbs., won rather cleverly by a neck. Dono- 

 van's spring form was, as has been shown, at least 21 lbs. 

 behind her, and by the autumn he had come on so as to beat 

 her a neck and two lengths at 10 lbs.— say an 8 lbs. beating. 

 Melanion, taking the line through her, had improved about 

 5 lbs. since the end of June. For some cause or other he 

 only ran once as a two-year-old, when he was unplaced to Sea- 

 breeze in the Lancashire Autumn Plate. He won the Column 

 as a three-year-old, walked over for another small stake, and 

 now stands as a sire at Danebury. 



Semolina, the Duke's second Brocklesby winner, whose 

 flicker of three-year-old fame is noticed in another chapter, 

 was galloped on March 13, 1889, as under : 



