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what long in the back and flat sided, and a rare 



mover, galloping with great force and resolution. 



As she was a big mare she did not put in an 



appearance in public until the Second October 



meeting, where she ran in the Clearwell but was 



unplaced. Her next a})pearance was in the 



Friday Nursery in the Houghton week, Avhere 



she ran very creditably, carrying 7st. 12lb. Mr. 



Osborne had entered her in a Selling Sweepstakes 



for all ages on the Saturday, and thought very 



highly of her chance. He had won about £200 



in small bets during the week and put it all on 



his favourite, so sanguine was he of success. She 



ran prominently for a short distance and then 



died away to nothing, finishing a bad third. 



It was always Osborne's opinion that she had 



been drugged, and by no other means could he 



account for her runnino- beino" so far below her 



form when at home. True, some good judges 



thought her rather soft, but her owner would 



never acknowledge that there was any foundation 



for such a report. We are inclined to think 



Osborne was right, as the mare never recovered 



her form, and had there been any foundation for 



the report that she lacked stamina, she could not 



have won such a trial as she did."' 



* Agnes was tried over a mile-and-a-qiiarter with the two-year- 

 old Hyderabad, to whom she gave 2st., aud Carisbrook, from 

 whom she was in receipt of 211bs., and won her trial easily by 

 two lengths. Carisbrook ran prominently in the Cesarewitch 

 with 7st. 71b., aud finished fourth. 



