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THE TURF 



One Thousand Guineas. 



1863, Lord Stamford's ch. f. Lady Augusta, by Stockwell. 



1866. Marquis of Hastings' b. f. Repulse „ ,, 



1867. Col. Pearson's br. f. Achievement ,, ,, 



The Derp.y. 



1864. Mr. W. I'Anson's ch. c. Blair Athol „ „ 

 1866. Mr. Sutton's b. c. Lord Lyon „ ,, 

 1873. Mr. Merry's ch. c. Doncaster ,, ,, 



Six times in eight years, it will be seen, Stockwell's 

 sons and daughters carried off the St. Leeer, whilst 

 Doncaster's son, Bend Or, won the Derby of 1880, 

 and became the sire of Ormonde, who won the Two 

 Thousand, Derby, and St. Leger six years later. 



If this division of my work deals chiefly with 

 comparatively recent times, it is because we have more 

 trustworthy data to go on, and in consequence of a 

 belief that readers will be more interested in animals 

 whom they have seen, or the exploits of whose 

 progeny they have witnessed. The success of Blink 

 Bonny in the Derby of 1857 — the second of the three 

 fillies that have won it in 118 years — reminds one that 



