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minster's colt, notwithstanding that the famous jockey 

 was ridinof with one arm at the time, not havino" 

 recovered from the injuries inflicted when he was 

 savaged by Muley Edris. 



When there are two notable horses of the same age 

 it not seldom happens that some unfortunate chance 

 keeps them apart, as, for instance, was the case in 

 1884, when lovers of the Turf were exceedingly 

 anxious to see what would happen if St. Simon and 

 St. Gatien could meet over two miles. Bend Or and 

 Robert the Devil, however, had several tussles, and 

 each scored in turn, though in the St. Leger Robert 

 the Devil had it all his own way, Bend Or being 

 nowhere in the race ; and when they repeated their 

 struggle over the Epsom course for the Cup, Robert 

 the Devil turned the tables on the Derby victor, 

 though as a matter of fact the neck by which he won 

 did not mean very much, as neither horse was really 

 himself at the time. The fact of the matter doubtless 

 is that Bend Or had the better speed and that Robert 

 the Devil was the better stayer. At a distance of a mile 

 and a quarter it is probable that the chestnut would 

 have won, but over the Cesarewitch course the general 

 opinion would have leant strongly and unanimously 

 to his rival. The French and the Hungarians had, it 

 will be seen, carried off the Derby, and in 1881 it was 

 to go to America by the aid of Iroquois, a son of 

 Leamington. Iroquois was probably not a good horse, 

 though he won the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Ascot 



