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in the field, as were her old opponents Martagon and 

 Alloway, both in receipt of 7 lbs., and she ran right 

 away from the lot of them. The race was won in the 

 first three hundred yards ; she " squandered her field "^ 

 as the phrase goes, and came in at her ease. What 

 she did for Signor Ginistrelli is best shown by his 

 position in the list of winning owners. 



1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 



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251I 11,8671 



Of this last Signorina won all but ^162. 



It is the custom of writers on turf affairs to waste 

 much time and ink during the winter and spring in 

 weighing up the two-year-old form of fillies (as well as 

 of colts), and in endeavouring to deduce from it the pro- 

 bable winner of the Oaks. As a matter of fact, two- 

 year-old fillies lose their form as often as they retain 

 it ; and after her extraordinary succession of victories in 

 her first season, Signorina, as a three-year-old, ran five 

 times and won only a single race worth ^200, her one 

 victory having been in a match with a filly (Susiana) 

 who displayed an amazing aptitude for running second, 

 as in the nine races she ran that year she was second 

 on eisht occasions ! How Memoir must have come on 

 to beat Signorina in the Oaks, or how Signorina must 

 have gone off to be beaten, is obvious. Next year in 

 four attempts she again won a single race ; but it was 

 a valuable one, the Lancashire Plate of ;^8,97i, which 

 raised her total to the sum that gives her admission to 



