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the English Turf; and in the next year also the 

 Derby went abroad, Mr. A. Baltazzi having been the 

 owner of Kisber, a son of Buccaneer, and so a close 

 relation of Formosa. 



What is the worst horse that ever won the Derby 

 is a point upon which agreement could hardly be 

 reached. Sefton, Sir Bevys, Merry Hampton, Sain- 

 foin, and Sir Visto would probably all be named if 

 the question were put to the vote, and so little need 

 be said about them under the present heading. 

 Probably Sir Bevys owed his victory in a great 

 measure to the fact of Fordham havingf ridden him 

 with peculiar discretion. The weather is generally 

 fine during the Epsom Summer Meeting, but that 

 year the course was a quagmire on the lower side, and 

 Fordham came wide on the right, thus running a little 

 farther, but securing firm ground to gallop over. He 

 was a great believer in the difference made by good 

 going, thinking the smallest advantage well worth gain- 

 ing, and there was a track at Newmarket along which 

 he always took his horse under certain conditions of 

 going. The Derby of 1880 is memorable for the 

 desperately close struggle between Bend Or and 

 Robert the Devil, and hard as I am trying to avoid 

 the repetition of facts which will probably be known to 

 most of my readers, it must be remarked that Robert 

 the Devil ought certainly to have won, but that his 

 jockey looked round and was apparently paralysed 

 by Archer's desperate rush with the Duke of West- 



