6o THE TURF 



esting in this rapid age, the true story of Lord 

 Hastings' racing career would always be absorbing. 

 It has, indeed, occupied many pens, but it is all too 

 evident that the writers have usually drawn upon 

 their imaginations for their facts, and they differ 

 ludicrously about their fiction. 



In some years the fillies are greatly superior to the 

 colts, and 1867 furnishes a case in point. Achieve- 

 ment, the daughter of Stockwell and own sister to 

 Lord Lyon, the hero of the previous season, was 

 doubtless unapproachable, and a wonderful animal 

 to boot, for though she never ran as a four-year-old, 

 and in her clay the rich stakes of ^10,000 (and 

 upwards, for they have sometimes exceeded the 

 nominal amount), which afterwards came into vogue, 

 were not inaugurated, she is among the select little 

 company of horses that have won over ^20,000, a list of 

 which will presently be given ; and she was followed 

 by another filly of almost equal fame, who also comes 

 into the narrow list of "over ^20,000," and whose 

 reputation is yet scarcely all that it should be for a 

 very simple reason. Formosa, a daughter of Buccaneer, 

 carried off the One Thousand, the Oaks, and St. 

 Leger ; and she was not beaten for the Two Thousand. 

 In that race she ran a dead heat with a horse of Mr. W. 

 S. Crawfurd's, named Moslem. The colt subsequently 

 walked over, and she is consequently not enrolled as a 

 winner of the first classic race of 1868; but that he 

 was inferior to Formosa few ever doubted, and he 



