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4 years, 7 st., won the Great Ebor Handicap (August, 

 1874) 2 miles, in 3 m. 31 s. Both Chivalrous and King- 

 craft respectively won these races with great ease. 



In hack selling races winner to be sold for from 

 Us. 200 to 500 when not beyond } mile, country-breds 

 sometimes hold their own ; those that do so having 

 almost always a strong dash of English blood, from 

 which they generally derive their turn of speed, as well 

 as some of their inherited infirmities, which doom them 

 to running for such minor events. A useful horse for 

 such races winner to be sold for Rs. 500 or Rs. 600 

 ought to be able to do with 10 st. up, -J mile, in 53 to 

 53J s., or j mile in 1 m. 21 s., or 1 m. 22 s. on an ordinary 

 race course. 



Since the time of Meg Merrilis, which won the 

 Governor-General's Cup in 1858, and again in the follow- 

 ing j'ear Shamrock, the black mare Gypsy, Deception, 

 and M. T. late Mermaid, late Jessie, have been nearly the 

 only country-breds that could stay as well as gallop. 

 Gypsy beat the Earl and Silvertail, who were both quite 

 first class Arabs, at the Calcutta Meeting of 1871, doing 

 the mile in 1 m. 52 s., carrying 8 st. 8 Ibs., but by maiden 

 allowances and penalties, the Arabs were actually giving 

 her 8 Ibs. At weight for age and class the Arabs might 

 probably have beaten her, and would certainly have 

 done so under these conditions, for two miles. 



As a rule Arabs will always beat country-breds for 

 any distance from a mile and a quarter upwards, at their 

 class allowance, though the latter have the legs of the 

 former for shorter races. 



For galloway and pony races, .Arabs are undoubtedly 



