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RACING, 



The feelings of the owner may be imagined when w^e mention 

 that the betting was 3 to i on Knight of the Garter, and 8 to i 

 against Lozenge ! 



To return to the trial. Suffolk beat King Alfred easily, 

 but was kicked by a cart-horse w^hile being saddled opposite 

 Armstrong's stables, and was lame when he ran in the Derby, 

 where King Alfred was second, beaten only half a length by 

 Blue Gown ; so it is fair to suppose that Suffolk sound and 



• Get off as best they can.' 





w^ll would have won the race. Sir Joseph's star was in the 

 ascendent just then. 



Kisber, though the property of Mr. A. Baltazzi, w^as trained 

 in Hayhoe's stable, and, good as a two-year-old, was a real 

 smasher at three years. His Derby trial was a Yorkshire 

 gallop, with the weights carefully ascertained—/.^, even weights 

 with Hesper, three years, and an old horse called Huntsman, 

 over a mile and a half on the July course — and Kisber won 

 running away. His owner backed him for an enormous stake, 



