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performed so well as in the Portland Plate and 

 the One Thousand, her splendid victories in which 

 races earned her the epithet by which she is still 

 fondly called in the north, 'Hhe flying" Manganese. 

 Her pace must have been great indeed, for 

 Mr. Osborne thinks she is about the fastest 

 animal he ever rode. 



It is interesting to note that she won the 

 Brownlow Stakes at Lincoln in September, a 

 subscription of 5 sovs. each with £25 added. 

 What would be thought now of a One Thousand 

 winner running in a race like that. Still it was 

 no uncommon occurrence in those days to see the 

 highest class horses contesting for a £50 plate, 

 and that there was as good or perhaps better 

 sport than there is in these days of gate money 

 meetings and colossal stakes few will be likely 

 to deny. 



Manganese went to the Stud farm at Ashby 

 in 1858, but did not produce her first foal until 

 1860. This was Mandragora, a chesnut filly by 

 Pataplan. She was only a little one, but was as 

 handsome as a picture, and such a good bred one 

 as she was, naturally raised great expectations ; 

 expectations however wliicli were doomed to be 

 disappointed. She was tried as a two-year-old, 

 and found so bad that it was determined not to run 

 her ; but it was thought desirable to give her 

 another chance. She was tried again in the spring 

 of 18G3; and '' not good enough to win a bridle at 



