THREE- YEAR-OLDS. 

 One mile. All three years old. 



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On this occasion Argences was the trial horse, he having on 

 the previous day run well up in the Newmarket Biennial won 

 by Kangaroo, whom Lord Hastings immediately purchased 

 from Mr. Padwick at an usurer's ransom for the purpose of 

 winning the Derby. 



In ten days time, on April 29, Jennings again tried his Two 

 Thousand candidate, putting in some fresh tackle and increas- 

 ing the difficulty of the task, with a similarly satisfactory result. 



One mile. 



Of these Vivid had, as a four-year-old, beaten Wingrave, 

 Bathilde, a Cambridgeshire winner, Caroline, a smart mare of 

 Mr. Longfield's, and Moulsey, who was the best horse Lord 

 Bateman ever possessed, at weight for age over the Rowley 

 mile. Note also that Gladiateur was here meetins: Le Man- 



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darin on 11 lbs. worse terms than when they were first put 

 together. 



Then came the Two Thousand, won by a neck from Archi- 

 medes, after vv'hat the Calendar describes as a magnificent 

 race, with Liddington only beaten the same distance from the 

 second. Either Gladiateur was not wound up or this was a 

 false run race, for though Archimedes did struggle up third in 

 the Leger, neither he nor Liddington was ever within a street 



