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with John Day, tells me that, having a dead line of 

 the Queen of the Gipsies, and being quite certain 

 to beat her in a canter, which he did, and never 

 dreaming of my beating him with Bramble, he 

 made sure of winning the Lansdowne with Peep- 

 ing Tom, whilst he kept the 4 Ib. off Brother to 

 Harold in the Cup. 



" I understand that old John Smith, who had 

 all these horses in training, and recommended 

 John Day to buy the three he bought, says that 

 Brother to Perseus was a long way the best, 

 Brother to Harold second, Kate Kearney third, 

 and Pompey the worst of the lot. I suspect, how- 

 ever, that speed is the best of the Brother to 

 Harold, and in that case it is just possible he may 

 not stay the distance, but I have no notion that 

 Discord can get the distance either : a mile has 

 always been held to be his best course, and that 

 he gets worse and worse every step he goes beyond 

 a mile. 



" I hope when you try you will keep the weights 

 down as much as possible, and I presume you 

 will try up to Gaper's form viz., a stone under 

 Discord and a stone above St Jean d'Acre. I 

 suppose, too, you will put Sam Rogers on the old 

 one to take care it is no humbug pace. However, I 

 don't wish to interfere. I merely throw out these 

 as hints, leaving it to Lord March to try the horses 

 as he likes, and make what use of any of my horses 

 he thinks proper, except Gaper, who is lame, and 



