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the select list of winners of over ^20,000 ; but it was 

 generally agreed that she owed her success here to the 

 unsatisfactory performance of G. Barrett, who rode 

 Orme. Like so many other horses that did great 

 things on the turf, she has been a failure in the 

 paddocks. Another of the Duke of Portland's St. 

 Simon fillies, Memoir, did not very greatly distinguish 

 herself this year, though she won three of the six 

 races in which she took part ; events of no great 

 importance, however, three of them being worth only 

 just over ^1,300 ; but she was a filly who made great 

 improvement with time. There was another very 

 good two-year-old also this year, belonging to the 

 Duchess of Montrose, who raced under the name of 

 " Mr. Manton," in Riviera, a daughter of St. Simon 

 and Marguerite, who won ten races in thirteen attempts, 

 worth altogether ^12,237, and that she would have 

 made a great name for herself is probable, in spite of 

 the fact of her having failed in the Oaks, but she had 

 the misfortune to break her back while at exercise on 

 Newmarket Heath. She had met Signorina at 

 Manchester and ran unplaced to the flying filly. 



Surefoot, to return to him after the digression 

 necessitated by the mention of Signorina, came out 

 and won the Two Thousand in brilliant fashion. He 

 started the hottest favourite for the Derby that had 

 ever been known up to that date, odds of 95 to 40^ 

 being laid on him ; but he could not stay for one thing, 

 and he was an extremely bad-tempered horse for 



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