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Great Yorkshire Stakes at York, and this, on the 

 face of it, does not look such very bad form, but 

 she was six lengths behind the winner, who won 

 as he liked. She is now at the stud at Breckon- 

 gill. 



Apology was beaten in her earliest engagements, 

 but she was beaten by good horses. Singularly 

 enough, in her first race, in which only three 

 started, she was beaten by Atlantic and Regal, 

 the former destined to be Fred Archer's first 

 winning mount in a big race, and the latter to 

 win the Grand National at Liverpool three years 

 later, carrying list. 3lb., a wonderful performance 

 for a five-year-old, and one that has only been 

 equalled by Alcibiade, who won with 1 1st. 4lb. up. 



When she ran at York she took the fancy of a 

 lot of good judges. We remember talking her 

 over with the late Tom Olliver, after she had 

 been beaten by Sir William Wallace, and he 

 expressed the opinion that she was well worth 

 keeping in sight for her three-year-old engage- 

 ments ; as was George Frederick, who had run 

 unplaced in the same race. 



Apology gradually trained on, and at the 

 Newmarket Houghton Meeting beat Blanchefleur 

 and Aventuriere in the Home-bred Produce 

 Stakes. 



She started favourite in the One Thousand 

 Guineas and won easily by half-a-length from the 

 French mare La Coureuse. 



