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"which her dam ran well five years previously. 

 She won some races both as a three and four- 

 year-old, and was finally sold to go into Italy, 

 where all trace of her was lost by her original 

 owner. She was a useful mare, and it would be 

 interesting to learn, knowing what we do of the 

 successes of her sister and her descendants, what 

 has been her career in the land of her adoption. 



Miss Agnes was, like her, rather flighty, and 

 indeed most of the offspring of Agnes were 

 troubled with an uncertain temper. She won 

 the Fitzwilliam Handicap at Doncaster as a 

 three-year-old, a very creditable performance, as 

 she had some useful horses behind her, amongst 

 them Baron Rothscliild's Mentmore Lass, the 

 winner of the One Thousand, from whom she was 

 in receipt of lllbs. She was a disappointing 

 mare on the turf, but Osborne was both patient 

 and persevering, and knowing her to be a good 

 one, kept her in training in the hopes that some 

 day she would run up to her true form and repay 

 him for all his trouble. His patience, however, 

 was exhausted at the Liverpool meeting in 1855, 

 where she was nicely in the Derby Handicap, 

 but took it into her head to run the course twice 

 over before the flag fell, and she never appeared 

 in public again. 



Little Agnes, by The Cure, was the first filly 

 she bred. She w^on a few races, the most im- 

 portant of them being the Tradesman's Handicap 



