222 LATTER HALF OF RACING SEASON OF 1845. 



who was not in other hands able to get T. Y. C. to 

 run If mile, as well as curing her bad temper, I 

 shall make up the odds you and your father stood 

 with me to 25 to 200, which I send you in my 

 cheque. 



" I am obliged to be in London on Thursday for 

 a meeting on Friday. If any trial of interest were 

 to take place on Saturday or Monday, I could be 

 at Goodwood for it. We ought not to try till we 

 can trust Miss Elis to have got over her two races, 

 as she must be considered now the key to all the 

 Cesarewitch horses. 



" I cannot estimate her nearer than 9 Ib. under 

 Miss Sarah, and I suppose, as The Baron actually 

 gave Miss Sarah 5 Ib., lost start, and beat her a 

 length, we must estimate him at least 8 Ib. better 

 than Miss Sarah. This makes 17 Ib. We must 

 therefore find something, which I fear we shall 

 not do, that can beat Miss Elis, assuming her to be 

 in the Cesarewitch at 6 stone 8 Ib., and in the 

 Cambridgeshire at 6 stone 4 Ib. Discord and 

 Refraction are the only chances we have in the 

 Cesarewitch of finding one to do it. 



" Lothario and Croton Oil are our only chances in 

 the Cambridgeshire, but I cannot help suspecting 

 that Kitchener never got My Mary out the first 

 day we tried her with Croton Oil. We ought to 

 try My Mary, Clumsy, Croton Oil, Miss Elis, 

 Refraction, and Lothario together before the 

 Cambridgeshire Stakes : if the last two are not 



