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She went very * dotty ' in her prehminary 

 canter, although not so lame as in the morning, 

 but she gradually warmed to her work, and Mr. 

 Osborne, as he tells the history of the race, says, 

 ■with his quiet smile, " It was one of the pleasantest 

 rides I ever had in my life, I had them all settled 

 at the Red House." 



Such a scene of excitement as ensued when he 

 returned to the paddock has rarely been seen on 

 a racecourse. Mare and jockey received an en- 

 thusiastic ovation, and some of the mare's ardent 

 admirers pulled hairs out of her mane and tail for 

 heirlooms, or wiped the sweat off her quarters 

 with their pocket handkerchiefs. 



Mr. King died in the following spring, and 

 Apology was, consequently, thrown up for some 

 time, and got big. They trained her for the 

 Goodwood Cup, but she only made a moderate 

 exhibition. Indeed she ran badly all the season, 

 and never really was fit to run till the end of it, 

 when she ran Carnelion to a neck in the Jockey 

 Club Cup at Newmarket, having 6lbs. the worst 

 of the weio^hts. 



Loss of form is one of those things with which 

 owners and trainers of racehorses have often to 

 contend, and for which they can seldom, if ever, 



or lose the Leger, run her in the Doncaster Cup." Osborne, 

 after winning the Leger, wrote to^Mr. I^ng advising him not to 

 run her in the Doncaster Cup under the circumstances, and his 

 advice was followed. 



