7'4 ASHGILL. 



Curiously enough George Frederick won a 

 race at the same meetino- and one morninc: 

 Apology and he met as they were coming from 

 exercise. A byestander, on whom the mantle of 

 projDhecy appeared to have fallen^ said in tones 

 of the deepest conviction, "There go the winners 

 of the Derby and Oaks." 



Miss Toto was the favourite for the Oaks, a 

 position to which her two-year-old runnning, as 

 well as her victory over George Frederick at the 

 Craven Meeting, fully entitled her, but Apology 

 had no trouble with her, and won by three 

 lengths with a lot in hand. 



She was promptly installed a leading favourite 

 for the St. Leger, dividing the favouritism with 

 George Frederick, and at last passing him in the 

 quotations. She ran in the Great Yorkshire 

 Stakes, but was beaten a head by Trent, who had 

 a little the best of the weights. The ground was 

 very hard, and she had her own running to make, 

 a thing she never liked ; and Osborne is of 

 opinion that had she been served by the pace she 

 would have won easily enough. 



When Georofe Frederick was scratched she 

 became first favourite for the Leger, which her 

 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire supporters thought 

 was a gift for her. 



She arrived at Doncaster fresh and well, and 

 did her usual quantity of work. On the Wednes- 

 day morning she went on to the Town Moor for 



