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he kept winning a few races and paying his way 

 from the commencement of the season of 1885, 

 but it was not till the York August meeting that 

 he showed what he was really made of. Here in 

 the Queen s Plate he upset the odds of three to 

 one which were betted on Newton, and literally 

 galloped that sterling horse to a standstill, a per- 

 formance he repeated at Richmond the following 

 week with Borneo, the Manchester Cup winner, 

 as a competitor instead of Newton. 



But his greatest performance was in the Don- 

 caster Cup. He only had three opponents, viz.. 

 King Monmouth, Blue Grass, and Louis d'Or. 

 The two latter were fair performers, and only in 

 June Blue Grass had given Hambledon a three- 

 quarters-of-a-length beating in the Northumber- 

 land Plate, at a difference of 24lbs. for the 

 two years. King Monmouth was in rare form ; 

 he had won the Great Yorkshire Stakes at 

 York in handsome style, and carrying 7st. 13lb., 

 the highest weight carried to victory in that 

 race by a three-year-old, had won the Great 

 Yorkshire Handicap with a bit in hand. But 

 Hambledon was runnino- into form, and the 

 farther they went the farther he left his 

 field, winning ultimately by six lengths. It 

 shows the improvement he had made when he 

 beat Blue Grass so far, and was meeting him on 

 5lbs. worse terms than in the Northumberland 

 Plate. 



