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years old, breaking down in the autumn. Mr. 



Clare Vyner gave 3000 for her as a brood 



mare, but there was not much out of her, Lizzie 



Lindsay, the dam of Crowberry, being the best." 



Agility's career extended over four seasons, and her 



record was winning twenty-one out of the fifty-three 



races in which she started, the aggregate of her winnings 



being 6382. After four years' stud life, the sister to 



Apology died, Mr. Vyner, who had purchased her at 



Mr. Gee's sale, having the comparative satisfaction for 



his outlay in her daughter, Lizzie Lindsay, who never 



could race much, but left Crowberry as her best son, 



he distinguishing himself by siring that smart horse, 



King Crow. 



By no means a good-looking mare, her common 

 quarters and drooping tail being redeemed by well- 

 placed shoulders and great depth of girth, Agility made 

 a name for herself on the Turf. In her two-year-old 

 season she w T on the Seaton Delaval Stakes at Newcastle, 

 beating a goodly field, which included Falkland, who 

 defeated her by a neck the next year on the old New- 

 castle Town Moor, but she turned the tables upon him 

 at Stockton, when she beat him in a canter, La Kisle 

 sandwiching the pair. Then, after a desperate pinch, 

 she beat Rosicrucian by a head for the York Cup. Wells 

 objected to her on the ground of a jostle. Singularly 

 enough, Billy Platt, the then middle-weight Ashgill 

 jockey, lodged an objection against her, which was 

 sustained. At the following Doncaster Meeting 

 she easily defeated Gamos (winner of the Oaks) 

 in the Park Hill Stakes, and at a later period 

 of the afternoon dead-heated with Enterprise in 

 the Doncaster Stakes, winding up the season well 

 by conceding Falkland 6 Ibs., and beating him 



