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headed. The flyman met us after the races with a 

 somewhat reproachful look, evidently fancying that 

 he had been put off a good thing, and the kindly 

 Duke felt the man's disappointment much more than 

 the loss of his own money, though an extra sovereign 

 consoled the would-be backer of Winter Cherry. 



The late Alec Taylor was about this time extra- 

 ordinarily successful in the preparation of horses for 

 long distance races. In four successive years from 

 1886 his stable carried off the Goodwood Stakes, with 

 Winter Cherry, Carlton, Stourhead, and Ingram ; he 

 won the Metropolitan with The Cob in 1887, with 

 Parlington in 1890, and with Ragimunde in 1891 ; 

 the Northamptonshire Stakes fell to the Manton 

 trained Claymore in 1889 ; Eastern Emperor and 

 Carlton won the Chester Cup in 1886 and 1887 

 respectively ; Ragimunde won the Cesarewitch in 

 1 89 1, and The Cob should have done so in 1886 ; 

 Carlton won the Doncaster Cup in 1887, as did Clay- 

 more in 1889 ; and four times in five years from 1886 

 the stable won the Manchester November Handicap, 

 with Stourhead, Carlton (20 runners). Claymore (18), 

 and Parlington (19), 



Returning to the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, 

 there is comparatively little to be said in comparison 

 with the interest which the contest annually awakens. 

 It is, indeed, rather as a medium of speculation than 

 as a great race that the Stewards' Cup has to be 

 considered. Some notably speedy horses have won — 



