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None of the Rothschild two-year-olds seem ever to have 

 beaten the private record of North Lincoln, who was tried 

 before the Criterion of 1858, at even weights with Mentmore, 

 four years, and to give no less than 3 st. to Sichoeus, another 

 four-year-old, and the same weight to Bastion, two years ; the 

 latter was ' chucked in ' so as to win the trial nevertheless 

 North Lincoln won cleverly by a length. 



Immense was the excitement of the party over this spin, 

 the object of which was to ascertain if they could turn the 

 tables upon W. Day's Promised Land, who, in receipt of 5 Ibs. 

 at Goodwood in the Findon Stakes, had beaten North Lincoln 

 very easily by two lengths, when the plungers of the day laid 

 6 and 7 to 4 unweariedly on the Baron's colt. Now in the 

 forthcoming engagement ' at the top of the town,' the two 

 horses had to meet at 3 Ibs., or a difference of 2 Ibs. only in 

 favour of the Baron. There was difference enough in the 

 form, for North Lincoln won easily by a length, and down 

 went the plungers again, who this time, fortified by study of 

 the book, did not hesitate to lay n to 8 on Promised Land. 



Throughout his career Favonius invariably showed himself 

 better than his two celebrated stable companions Hannah and 

 Corisande ; as a yearling he beat them both by three lengths ; 

 as a two-year-old, during the first Spring Meeting of 1870, he 

 was tried to give the same fair ladies 10 Ibs. a-piece, a feat 

 which he accomplished by two lengths. 



Taken to Ascot, to make his bow to the public in the New 

 Stakes, he went amiss immediately on arrival. How great a 

 certainty the race would have been for him Corisande lost no 

 time in demonstrating, as she ran as his substitute and won easily. 



He never ran as a two-year-old ; of his capabilities at three 

 years we shall hereafter treat. 



Kisber, in the same stable, is an instance of a bad begin- 

 ning making a good ending, for he was tried as a two-year-old 

 during the July Meeting of 1875 with a wretched four-year-old 

 plater called Beaconsfield, and succumbed by half a length. 

 He does not appear to have been stripped again till the 



