236 THE RACING WORLD 



head wins, 70 neck wins, and only 147 wins of 

 favourites, whilst the " odds on " favourites which 

 passed the post first were very few indeed. Keep- 

 ing these figures in mind, turn to the results of 

 1866, 1869, 1872, and 1875 — years when the late 

 Admiral Rous was in the zenith of his fame — and 

 what do we discover ? We find, to our astonish- 

 ment be it said, that in the years alluded to, which 

 were selected hap-hazard, taking an interval of 

 three years in each case, the following tabulated 

 figures (the 517 handicaps beginning in each case 

 with the Lincoln Spring Meeting, and being taken 

 in direct sequence therefrom as meeting followed 

 on meeting). 



Judging from these figures, which have been 

 tested on two or three occasions and verified to be 

 correct, unless the handicapping in the first four 

 years above tabulated (and I believe that the 

 intermediate years will be found to correspond 



1 I have lost the record of these, but the number was very- 

 small. 



