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She was then really getting back into her form. 

 She was a great mare that afternoon she won 

 the Ascot Cup ; and so she was in the St. Leger 

 and the Oaks. She was in season on the Oaks 

 day; in fact, on the morning of the race I had 

 to give her a smack or two to make her canter. 

 She was quite a different mare in the afternoon. 

 She jumped off at once and went as freely as 

 possible. Of course, I could never account for 

 her lameness on the St. Leger morning. Maybe 

 it was a little stiffness ; it might have been her 

 shoulder. She was lame in her shoulder two 

 or three times when she was a three-year-old. 

 She walked sound and free as possible on the 

 Leger day, but in trotting she went quite lame. 

 "Now you ask me what is my idea about 

 roaring in horses. Well, it is often brought on 

 by illness, though some horses are roarers from 

 one cause and some from another. I have known 

 a number of horses go roarers from illness. One 

 instance in point was a colt called Upleatham, 

 by Zetland out of Opheha. When he was first 

 tried AgiHty and Toreador were in the spin. 

 AgiHty won by haff a length, and he was beaten 

 haK a length from Toreador. That year our 

 horses brought an illness from Manchester. 

 This colt Upleatham took it, and he became a 

 roarer ; so bad, indeed, that he roared even when 

 trotting. I sold him at Northallerton races for 

 16 guineas. He was a good-looking horse, with 

 immense bone. That illness left him a wreck; 

 he was as sound as a ' bell of brass ' before he 

 took it. He was such a bad roarer that I never 

 tried to train him, and what became of him I 



