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Arbury till reaching Becher's Brook, over which Emblem 

 was the first to land, followed by the riderless Inkerman, 

 Yaller Gal and Arbury going on next. Jealousy, gallop- 

 ing strongly, took up the running on approaching the 

 canal and was several lengths in advance on turning into 

 the race-course, where Inkerman, apparently thinking he 

 had accomplished enough voluntary work, took a line of 

 his own and was found in the evening at some distance 

 from the course. At the thorn fence the horses were in 

 a cluster, and The Orphan, being just behind Arbury, 

 appeared not to see the obstacle, at any rate he galloped 

 right into it, and, of course, fell, while Fosco, who was 

 immediately behind, shared the same fate, and gave 

 Mr. Bevill a heavy fall. Holman was cannoned against 

 by Light of Other Days and narrowly escaped coming 

 down. Jealousy led over the water in front of the stand, 

 and Medora pecked badly on landing. Before long 

 George Stevens gently brought Emblem nearly along- 

 side of Jealousy, but the latter gave way at the fence 

 before Becher's Brook to Yaller Gal, the next pair being 

 Arbury and Emblem. The Dane, who came next, not 

 rising at the fence, broke his back, and Master Bagot 

 broke down at Valentine's Brook. At the hurdles placed 

 about a distance from home Emblem was leading; but 

 jumping sideways she stumbled on landing, and it 

 speaks much for the strength of seat of George Stevens 

 that at the end of a long and tiring race he sat perfectly 

 still. The mare recovered herself and won by twenty 

 lengths from Arbury, who was ten lengths in front of 

 Yaller Gal. 



This race is noteworthy for several reasons. In 

 the first place the winner. Lord Coventry's Emblem, a 

 thoroughbred mare by Teddington — Miss Batty, was 

 bred in Wales by Mr. Holford in 1856, and in 1859, when 

 a three-year-old, she ran thirteen times and won but once, 

 the Revival Handicap at Cardiff, when the property of 



