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Or in handicaps, the sire of Ormonde having won the 

 City and Suburban the spring after his Epsom triumph, 

 and having failed the same autumn in the Cambridge- 

 shire. Here Bend Or, 4 years old, carrying 9 st. 

 8 lbs,, ran unplaced to Foxhall, 3 years old, 9 st. The 

 two thus met at weight-for-age, and the younger colt, 

 who had never taken part in a "classic" race, very 

 easily beat the classic winner. To Lucy Glitters, who 

 was second to Thebais for the Oaks and a good third 

 to Iroquois for the St. Leger — beaten less than two 

 lengths — Foxhall gave no less than 3 st. 7 lbs. In 

 the face of this what ground can there be for disparag- 

 ing Foxhall as a "handicap horse".'* St. Gatien, a 

 Derby winner, or dead-heater, which is much the 

 same thing, gained lustre by his success in the Cesare- 

 witch as a three-year-old with 8 st. 10 lbs. Melton 

 failed in the Cambridgeshire, but carried 9 st. 3 lbs. 

 home, as a four-year-old, in the Liverpool Autumn 

 Cup. La Fleche, beaten for the Derby by a horse 

 subsequently proved to be much her inferior, but 

 winner of the One Thousand, Oaks, and St. Leger, 

 ran in handicaps, won the Cambridgeshire as a three- 

 year-old with 8 St. 10 lbs., and the Liverpool Autumn 

 Cup next year with 9 st. 6 lbs. Memoir, an Oaks and 

 Leger winner, ran in handicaps. Throstle won the 

 St. Leger, beating Ladas and Matchbox, for which 

 latter the Austrian Government paid 18,000 guineas. 

 Soon afterwards Throstle met Best Man, a " handicap 

 horse," and he beat her easily. Isonomy was a 



