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a fair " was the fiat. Mr. King, who was disgusted 

 at this and had made up his mind to part with 

 her, had nearly sold her for thirty pounds, and 

 wrote Mr. Osborne, Senr,, to that effect, but the 

 latter replied that it would be a pity to part with 

 such a bred one at such a price, and suggested 

 that she should be sent to Weatherbit, a horse of 

 his own which was standing at Mr. Jaques' at 

 Easby Abbey, offering to remit the service fee. 

 Mr. King consented, and Mandrake was the 

 result. 



The colt was sold as a yeaaling to Sir R. 

 Jardine for 450 guineas, and proved a useful 

 racehorse. He ran well in his two-year-old races, 

 but won nothing till the Newmarket Houghton 

 Meeting, when he pulled ofi* the Glasgow Stakes 

 after running a dead heat with JSir K. Bulkeley's 

 Owain Glendwr. He ran prominently in two or 

 three big Handicaps before he scored his first win 

 as a three-year-old in the Great Ebor, where he 

 had a good field behind him. The Liverpool 

 Autumn Cup fell to his lot, but unfortunately his 

 owner and his friends did not profit by his victory 

 as they should have done. 



In the Cambridgeshire of that year Sir Robert 

 Jardine had ahorse named The Cor^^oral entered. 

 He had run fairly in the early part of the season, 

 had won the Edinburgh HandicajD, and as his 

 weight, penalty included, was only 7st. 8lb., he 

 was thought to have a good chance of winning. 



