208 LORD GEORGE AS A LETTER- WRITER. 



ground. We have four much too near together for 

 there to be a real good one in the lot. 

 " This is my handicap : 



"T.Y.C. 



Age. st. Ib. 



African . . .5 97 



Cowl . . .2 77 



Rose of Cashmere . .2 73 



Moonshine . . .2 62 



Estelle f . . .2 60 



Realf. . . .1 4 12 . 



Ennui . . .1 4 12 



Yacunaf. . . .1 4 12 



Torch f. . . .1 3 10 



"If I am right in this, it will bring them up to 

 be as good weight for age next year as Cowl 

 and Rose of Cashmere, which may not win the 

 Oaks, but will win a good many things. 



" I forgot exactly what was our best trial last 

 year, but I think we were always trying the old 

 horses with their heads FROM home, and that last 

 year we only tried half a mile instead of three- 

 quarters. I think you say, too, that the Torch 

 filly would have won half a mile ; if so, Real filly 

 and Ennui would have been about winning, carry- 

 ing 5 st. 7 Ib. half a mile i.e., just 4 st. under 

 African. The question, therefore, is, How have our 

 yearlings been with African last year and the year 

 before half a mile ? 



" They have taken no taste yet of their year- 

 lings at Bretby, but mean to do so about Christ- 



