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The feelings of the owner may be imagined when we 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 while 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.' 



well would have won the race. Sir Joseph's star was in the 

 ascendent just then. 



Kisber, though the property of Mr. A. Baltazzi, was 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 z>. 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, 



