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never won afterwards. Hester, again, for whom even money- 

 was taken for the Oaks, was hke Macgregor unplaced ; and 

 she was a good mare as a two-year-old, and even at three 

 won the One Thousand. 



Lastly, there is Ganios. In 1869 this mare, then a two- 

 year-old, wins six races out of the eight she runs for. In 

 the following spring she is, at Bath, beaten so easily in the 

 very worst of company, that her jockey has to pull her up, 

 and she does not pass the winning-post. Yet in the next 

 week, in the hands of the very same jockey, she wins the 

 Oaks ! Surely this case will be allowed to be the strangest 

 of all I have mentioned ; yet it was but a day's wonder, 

 whilst the cases of Lady ElirjabetJi and some others have 

 been in the mouths *of the racing-public for months. With 

 such examples, one must think that racing with them, like 

 kissing with others, must go by favour. 



