EARLY TRIALS. 



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The roll of two-year-old trials may well begin with one 

 which took place on Langton Wold on July 2, 1862, as it is 

 curious to compare the relative merits of eminent matrons 

 when in their frisky youth. 



T. Y. C. A II two years old. 



Won easily by a length : three lengths between second 

 and third ; Fantail beaten off. 



Mr. Bowes, Mr. Padwick, Lord Falmouth, and Mr. Perry, 

 who then raced in the name of his trainer Boyce, were here 

 represented. 



None of these young ones had a great two-year-old record : 

 Old Orange Girl winning twice at that age, Laura and Queen 

 Bertha once each, and Fantail not at all ; it is the fame of the 

 progeny of two of them which lends such historic interest to 

 this trial. Queen Bertha became the most celebrated of the 

 quartet, as winner of the Oaks, as second in the Leger, and 

 as having, moreover, left such a mark in the Stud Book as 

 few other mares can boast ; she being the dam of Gertrude 

 (who gave birth to Charibert) by Saunterer ; of Paladin by 

 FitzRoland ; of Spinaway by Macaroni ; of Wheel of Fortune 

 by Adventurer ; of Grand Master by Kingcraft, besides other 

 minor celebrities, and it has been calculated, though we have 

 not seen the statistics, and do not vouch for their accuracy, 

 that Queen Bertha and her descendants have up to the pre- 

 sent time won considerably over ioo,ooo/. in stakes. If Old 

 Orange Girl was faster in this first essay than her two cele- 

 brated contemporaries, it was the only time she ever proved 

 herself in any way superior to either of them. The one 



