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three season's racing were £4,200, and the fact 

 that he won seventeen races, and was either 

 second or third in six out of the nine races* in 

 which he suffered defeat, is sufficient testimony 

 that he was a good racehorse judiciously placed. 



Dresden China, Ben Alder, Adamite, and 

 Caper Sauce were all Doncaster purchases, and 

 all won good races. Dresden China was bought 

 by Mr. Perkins just before the Great Yorkshire 

 Handicap in 1879, and her hollow victory in that 

 race was an augury of her future successes. She 

 next carried the turquoise and violet sleeves third 

 in the Cesare witch, Chippendale and Westbourne 

 being respectively first and second ; and finished 

 the season by winning the Northumberland 

 Autumn Plate. The Northamj)tonshire Stakes, 

 and the Goodwood and Doncaster Cups, the only 

 races for which she started next year, fell to her 

 lot, and she was sent to the Stud in 1882. 



Ben Alder cost 1,200 guineas, and scored a 

 solitary win in a Nursery Handicap at Gosforth 

 as a two-year-old. Neither was his three-year- 

 old form very first-rate, for although he ran fairly 

 in one or two races, only two unimportant handi- 

 caps fell to his share. The next year he M'on the 

 Great Ebor Handicap, for which he started a 

 very hot favourite. He was sold to Mr. G. A. 



'■' In the Newtou Gold Cup in which he was second to Sir R. 

 Jardine's Glengyle, to whom he was conceding the year and 181bs., 

 there were only three runners. 



