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be sent to hurdles. Assuredly jumping had no bad effect on 

 Friday, who, after trying in vain to win over hurdles at Croydon, 

 Kempton, &:c., followed in the steps of such animals as Alice 

 Hawthorn, Monarque, Saunterer, Promised Land, Ely, Vauban, 

 Favonius, Flageolet, Doncaster, and Isonomy, by winning the 

 Goodwood Cup, and that, too, from Tristan, one of the very 

 best horses of his time, not to lay stress on the fact that 

 Geologist, second to Peter for the Hardwicke Stakes, and to 

 Iroquois for the St. Leger, was behind the winner, as was Bariolet, 

 a colt which had run well in France. It should be added, 

 however, that Fridav, as a maiden five-year-old, had a great 

 advantage in the weights. Prudhomme, Dan Dancer and Billow, 

 the last two winners of the Ascot Stakes, and others that have 

 run well on the flat after winning over hurdles, might be named. 

 Jumping a country doubtless has a tendency to upset a horse's 

 form on the flat, as indeed continual practice over hurdles 

 might have, though Friday had been schooled over a steeple- 

 chase course, and had run and finished nowhere in a small 

 steeple-chase in the spring of the year of his Goodwood victory. 

 Friday of course was well bred, by Favonius, winner of the 

 Derby in 187 1. 



It may be remarked, as one of the contradictory problems 

 to be met in the consideration of breeding, that Charles I., one 

 of the best hurdle-racers of his time, had a roarer. Prince 

 Charles, for his sire, while his dam was also the daughter of a 

 roarer, Marin. 



