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picked up a few valuable stakes with them now 

 and then before they went to the stud. This 

 year he felt tempted to break through what has 

 almost become an unalterable rule, and put the 

 handsome brother to L'Abbesse cle Jouarre into 

 training. This is a very smart colt, a nice galloper, 

 with a ' wear and tear ' look about Jiim that gives 

 promise of standing work, and he cannot ftxil to 

 be very useful if he has ordinary luck. 



It is rather singular that the two mares, whose 

 progeny have done so much to the making of the 

 history of the turf during the last half-century, 

 should both have disgusted their original owners, 

 should both have been given away, and should 

 both have realized fortunes for their new owners. 

 Malton has always had a fair share of the good 

 tilings of the Racing world, but the greatest 

 triumphs of the Malton bred and Malton trained 

 horses have been gained by the oftspring 

 of the two cast-offs, Polly Agnes and Queen 

 Mary. 



Queen Mary was bred by Mr. Dennis, in 

 Holderness, and was sold by him to Mr. W. R. 

 Ramsay. She ran once, in a sweepstakes for 

 two-year-olds at Chester, where she fell, and was 

 never quite sound afterwards. Mr. Ramsay then 

 gave her to the late Wm. I'Anson, who was 

 training for him, and that he thought something 

 about her is very evident, for he sent her to 

 Lanercost, who was standing at the Rawcliffe 



