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CHAPTER X. 



LATTER HALF OF THE RACING SEASON OF 1845. 



THREE weeks after her severe exertions at 

 Goodwood, Miss Elis ran at York for the Great 

 Yorkshire Stakes, when Lord George Bentinck 

 backed her again. She was beaten easily by Miss 

 Sarah, a fine slashing filly, who had run third to 

 the Duke of Richmond's Refraction for the Epsom 

 Oaks, and was a daughter of Gladiator (at that 

 time one of the best stallions in England), and of 

 Major Yarburgh's famous mare Easter, by Brutan- 

 dorf. The ground at York was excessively deep, a 

 large portion of the course being under water. I 

 well remember that Mr Ramsay's Malcolm, a very 

 powerful chestnut two-year-old colt, who won the 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes on the first day, sank 

 down into the mud as he was being saddled, and 

 was quite unable to extricate himself until four or 

 five strong men, whose assistance was invoked by 

 Tom Dawson, his trainer, applied their shoulders 

 to his ribs on both sides of his body, and fairly 



