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hill has to be ascended, but It occurs at the start 

 when the horses are full of vigour, then the turns to 

 some extent ease the journey, from Tattenham 

 Corner to nearly the winning post there is a long 

 descent, which cannot fail to be welcome to horses 

 who have been exerting themselves, and if there is 

 a slight subsequent rise to the winning post it is 

 short and the gradient is trivial. A period of from 

 three to four months elapses between the Derby 

 and the Leger, and during this time a three-year-old 

 may be expected in the ordinary course of nature 

 to develop stamina. That he does so, indeed, the 

 calculated scale of weio-ht-for-aa"e recog^nises. The 

 mile and a half at Epsom, therefore, may perhaps 

 be held as something like the equivalent of the 

 mile, six furlongs, 132 yards at Doncaster ; never- 

 theless the tendency is to regard the winner of 

 the Leger as an approved stayer, whilst doubts 

 on this head may at any rate sometimes exist in the 

 case of the winner of the Derby. Glancing back 

 to a period which is not remote, Shotover found 

 the Leger course too far for her, having won the 

 Derby without difficulty, and of other Epsom 

 winners Sainfoin could not last the mile and a half 

 of the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot; in fact it is to be 

 noted that as a four-year-old, when he was only 

 brought out twice, on one occasion the distance 

 was a mile, on the other six furlongs. Cicero 



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