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Peppermint and of Clinkumbell. With luck on his side 

 in an ordinary year, The Miner would have been a 

 classic horse. His defeat in the Three-Year-Old Produce 

 Stakes by Ely, who was conceding 3 lbs., Osborne 

 ascribes to the pace not being forced by anything in the 

 race. His promising career as a Cup horse was cut 

 short by a breakdown in the Cambridgeshire. 



PRODUCE OF MANDRAGORA. 



Bred by Mr. W. H. Brook in 1860, got by Rataplan, her dam Manganese, 

 by Birdcatcher, out of Moonbeam, by Tomboy. 



1864 — ch c Mandrake, by Weatherbit. 

 1865- -bl or br c Skedaddler, by Skirmisher. 

 1866 — ch f Misadventure, by Adventurer. 

 1867 — b f Ability, by Adventurer. 

 1869— br f Muddle, by Moulsey. 

 1871 — ch f Apology, by Adventurer. 

 1872 — ch c (died), by Adventurer. 

 1875— b f Agile, by The Palmer. 

 1877 — ch f Lizzie Lindsay, by Scottish Chief. 

 1877— b f by Scottish Chief. 



Barren in 186S, 1874, and 1876, and died in 1878. 



Mandrake, as a yearling, came into Sir Robert 

 Jardine's ownership for 450 guineas. As a two-year- 

 old he paid his way by winning the Glasgow Stakes at 

 Ne^vmarket Houghton. In his three-year-old season he 

 won the Ebor Handicap and the Liverpool Autumn 

 Cup, adding further to his fame in the succeeding 

 year by beating the flying Achievement in the Ascot 

 Biennial and Juhus in the Doncaster Cup, these two 

 last exploits placing him on the high pinnacle of being 

 almost as good as anything of his year. 



At York August Meeting of 1875 an artistic finish 

 was seen between Custance and Osborne, the former 

 on Louise Victoria and the latter on Thunder, in Her 

 Majesty's Plate — two miles. The actual strength of 

 the field was five, though no one cared to look further 



