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second essay was at Ludlow, and there he did not 

 distinguish himself, but at Derby he was only beaten a 

 head by the only other competitor, a son of Herald 

 named Chronicle, on whom odds of 1 1 to 4 were laid. 

 Herald is remarkable in Turf history as having run to 

 an almost unexampled age for an entire horse, and 

 though his stud career cannot be described as particularly 

 brilliant, he was the sire of a considerable number of 

 winners, did, I think it may be said, better at the stud 

 than there had been reason to expect. The day after 

 his narrow defeat Zodiac, ridden by E. Morgan, who 

 was frequently found on his back, started a 7 to 4 

 favourite in the Juvenile Steeplechase Plate, which he 

 won by half a length, and at the Pembroke Hunt he 

 won the Stewards' Plate with odds of 5 to 4 on him. 

 Evidently he was a particularly sound horse, for again 

 at Ludlow he came out two days running, failing to 

 show up prominently in the Ludlow Cup, two miles on 

 the flat, but winning the Oakley Park Steeplechase from 

 a better favourite in Irish Thisde. At the Pembroke- 

 shire Hunt he won again, with odds of 3 to i on him, 

 and after being beaten at Nottingham for a race which 

 he was apparently not expected to win, as he is not one 

 of those mentioned in the betting, he accomplished a 

 performance which gave his owner particular pleasure. 

 For the Abbeystead Steeplechase at Liverpool he only 

 had one opponent, a useful colt named Pawnbroker, who 

 had won the Altcar Four-Year-Old Steeplechase at the 



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