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sufficient, even if other proofs were not forthcoming, to 

 silence those so ready to impute evil motives to others. 



But what after all, it may be asked, was there so very 

 different in Lady ElizabetJis running to that of hundreds of 

 others of which nothing is heard afterwards .'' The reader 

 who has done me the honour to follow me so far, will have 

 read of instances as confounding, which have been adduced 

 for the purpose of illustrating other points in connection with 

 the racehorse. But fi few more may be given. 



Look at Green Sleeves, who as a two-year-old was the only 

 animal that ever beat Lady Elizabeth. She was, if possible, 

 worse than her opponent at three years old; and had she 

 not been beaten for the One Thousand, would have had 

 as good a right to favouritism for any race as Lady Eliza- 

 beth herself. TJie Maid of Orleans was another example of 

 a mare that, excellent as a two-year-old, could beat nothing 

 afterwards. Then for an instance of later running upsetting 

 the earlier in an exactly opposite way, we have Formosa. 

 At two years old she only won three races out of nine, 

 being beaten by a mare {Eiiropd) that had been beaten 

 at Goodwood by Banditto; but as a three-year-old com- 

 pletely turned the tables on those that had beaten her before 

 — winning the One Thousand, the Oaks, and the St. Leger, 

 and running a dead heat for the Two Thousand. After 

 such victories as a three-ycar-okl, can her earlier perform- 

 ances be said to be a whit more explicable than the 

 running of the other mares whose best form was their 

 earliest form } 



Take another case ; that of Macgregor, who after winning 

 the Two Thousand, started for the Derby at nine to four (as 

 he had a right to start, if any liorsc be entitled to such a 

 price). lie was not i)laccd, and so far as I recollect, 



