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Won cleverly by two lengths; a near thing between second and 

 third. It will be seen that Semohna was running at 7 lbs. less 

 than weight for age with the four-year-old (who, be it remarked, 

 ran that year no fewer than seventeen times without once scor- 

 ing), and this was thought good enough to make the Duke's 

 filly favourite at Lincoln, where she won by a length, and' 

 where of course Pink Pearl, who was in the same stable and 

 could go a bit, did not oppose her, her two best antagonists 

 being Lactantius and Heresy. Her great contemporary 

 Memoir never seems to have been put alongside anything good 

 in early youth, though she did easily enough the trifling tasks 

 set her at home. 



Katharine H., the last and by a long way the worst of the 

 Heath House trio under notice, was also the least highly taxed 

 in her trial. She had, it is true, on February 25, cleaned out 

 four other two-year-olds, of whom Anna was second, and 

 afterwards proved to be best, but the real test was on March 7, 

 when over five furlongs Charm, then three years old, gave her 

 2 St. and beat her cleverly by a length ; Watts on the elder and 

 Allsopp on the younger filly. No great encouragement here 

 to the Dawsonites ; however the performance was better than 

 it looked at first sight, for on the opening day at Lincoln 

 Charm beat a large and quite unusually good field in the 

 Batthyany Stakes, after which Katharine was of course favour- 

 ite and got home by a head from Butterscotch, with ten others 

 behind her. She never won another race from that day. 



It would be perhaps impossible in the annals of racing to 

 find three animals trained in the same stable, whose early 

 promise held out by success in the same stake on almost the 



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