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was consequently made between the two, and came 

 off immediately before the Dewhurst Plate (in which 

 Queen Adelaide, 8 st. 13 lbs., beat Busybody, 9 st. 

 2 lbs., a neck, thus showing themselves practically the 

 same animal). They ran at even weights, and St. 

 Simon won — easily, Archer, who rode him, declared ; 

 with scarcely 7 lbs. in hand was the estimate of Tom 

 Cannon, the jockey of the defeated colt. Duke of 

 Richmond may be here dismissed with the remark 

 that hard struggles in the Hunt Cup and Stewards' 

 Cup next year, for both of which he was just beaten, 

 apparently broke his heart, or at least disgusted him 

 with racing, and he sank to hurdle jumping. St. Simon 

 began as a three-year-old in the same way in which he 

 had ended as a two-year-old — with a match. It had 

 been questioned whether he could stay, and M. Lefevre, 

 the owner of Tristan, one of the few sons of Hermit 

 who had exhibited capacity to win over a distance of 

 ground, challenged St. Simon to run a mile and a half, 

 each having a pacemaker to bring him along. That 

 was if they could, for the pace-makers were reduced to 

 helplessness very soon after the start ; then St. Simon 

 left Tristan and won at his ease by half a dozen 

 lengths. There was nothing that dared to oppose St. 

 Simon for the Epsom Gold Cup (an extinct race). 

 Tristan came out again to run against St. Simon for 

 the Ascot Cup, to see if the additional mile of that 

 race would make a difference, but "won by twenty 

 lengths, a bad third" — Faugh-a-Ballagh occupied the 



