DERBY, ST. LEGER AND ASCOT CUP 



never won over more than a mile and a half, and 

 demonstrated at Ascot that he could not stay. 

 Orby, again, never attempted a longer distance 

 than the Derby course. Signorinetta's limit must 

 be set down as a mile and a half. Minoru never 

 won a longer race than the Derby, and all his 

 other successes were over shorter distances. 



Occasionally there is a year when the winner 

 of the Oaks is better than the winner of the Derby; 

 interest is frequently added to the Leger by the 

 antagonism of the victor and victrix of the Epsom 

 classics, and this makes the hero or heroine of the 

 contest on the Town Moor more notable. I am 

 quite convinced that if Busybody could have run for 

 the Leger of 1884 The Lambkin would not have 

 had the remotest chance with her, for I happen to 

 know how good a filly she was. She ranks amongst 

 the best of Oaks winners. The Lambkin as a 

 moderate colt. This is, however, merely specula- 

 tion; coming to facts, fillies who won the Oaks and 

 at Doncaster beat the winner of the Derby, going 

 back to a notable instance not too far in the past, 

 include Mr. Merry's Marie Stuart, who in 1873 

 just disposed of her stable companion Doncaster. 

 In 1888 Seabreeze beat Ayrshire, in 1890 Memoir 

 beat Sainfoin, in 1892 La Fleche beat Sir Hugo, in 

 1902 Sceptre beat Ard Patrick, in 1904 Pretty Polly 

 beat St. Amant. Since Seabreeze all the fillies who 



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