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him, a reversal of the Goodwood running, and that 

 backers did not know what to think about it is 

 shown by the return, " even betting," Glare was 

 out once more this season, for an All Aged Stakes 

 at the HouQ^hton Meeting-. This time ii to lo 

 was laid on her in what was a match with Sir J. 

 Blundell Maple's five-year-old Prince Hampton, and 

 he beat her by three parts of a length. 



Almost as often as not two-year-old fillies lose 

 their form, and unfortunately Glare is an example. 

 She reappeared for the Newmarket Stakes, the 

 betting here being eloquent. No less than loo to 8 

 was laid on Ladas, lOO to 6 against Mr. Douglas 

 Baird's St. Florian, 25 to i against Glare, 66 to i 

 against the Duke of Portland's Galston, 100 to i 

 against Mr. T. Jennings's Sir John Broad. The five 

 finished in the order indicated. Glare was evidently 

 supposed to be in better trim at Ascot, for she and 

 Mr. Henry Milner's Jocasta, a son of St. Simon and 

 Thebais, started equal favourites for the Coronation 

 Stakes, which was taken by Throstle — the filly who 

 so unexpectedly carried off the St. Leger — from 

 Sir J. Blundell Maple's Royal Victoria ; Jocasta, 



8 St. 3 lb., and Amiable, who had won the Oaks, 



9 St. 10 lb., running a dead-heat for third place. 

 This was one of the wettest Ascots on record, and a 

 note in the Calendar is to the effect that " in conse- 

 quence of the mud and the rain the jockeys could not 



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