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curiously slow to recognise the merit of Isinglass, who, 

 however, did everything that was asked of him as a 

 two-year-old. He was one of those horses of whom it 

 is said that they would " make a race with a donkey ; " 

 he accomplished what was necessary, but wasted no 

 exertion. That index of public opinion, the ring, con- 

 tinually showed that Isinglass was not properly appre- 

 ciated ; however, he won the New Stakes at Ascot, the 

 Middle Park Plate, and went into winter quarters with 

 an unbeaten certificate. Next year he came out for 

 the Two Thousand Guineas, which he won easily 

 enough ; he won the Derby, the St. Leger, and again 

 throughout the season did everything that he was 

 asked to do. That he could beat Ladas in the Prince 

 of Wales' Stakes at the Newmarket July Meeting was, 

 next year, deemed incredible by the supporters of Lord 

 Rosebery's colt, but there was no sort of doubt about 

 the result when it came to racing, and, in fact. 

 Isinglass only once met with defeat — in the Lancashire 

 Plate, when he failed to give the weight to Raeburn ; 

 this, however, doubtless being because he was a horse 

 who hated to make his own running, and his little 

 jockey, T. Loates, could not persuade him to go on in 

 front. It is no disparagement of Loates, in the face of 

 the colt's succession of victories in which that jockey 

 always rode him, to say that a longer-legged horse- 

 man would have shown Isinglass off to much better 

 advantage than he was able to do. The result of his 

 career, which ended with a victory in the Ascot Cup, 



