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her retrogression advancing to 75 to 40. The jockeyship 

 of Cannon and Osborne in this Great Yorkshire Stakes 

 was, according to the reports of the time, worth going 

 a hundred miles to see. 



Doubtless Apology was not herself in this race. It 

 had been the original intention to start her for the York- 

 shire Oaks, but on the morning of the race it was found 

 she was slightly amiss, and she was not altogether 

 recovered when she stripped for the Great Yorkshire 

 Stakes, which has invariably been looked upon as a 

 good test for the St. Leger, but often enough it has 

 proved otherwise. Stockwell managed to win the double 

 event, and so did Achievement. Rifleman won the Great 

 Yorkshire Stakes, but succumbed to Saacebox in the 

 St. Leger, who had finished behind him on Knaves- 

 mire. It was in the Great Yorkshire Stakes that Blair 

 Athol sustained his only defeat in England, his victor 

 being The Miner, ridden by Osborne. Over Knaves- 

 mire The Wizard was easily beaten by Saturn, but 

 positions were reversed in the Leger, and so they were 

 destined to be in regard to Trent and Apology in the 

 following September. Atlantic, who had won the Two 

 Thousand Guineas this year, was believed to be 10 Ibs. 

 in front of Trent, and naturally he became a strong 

 candidate for " Sellinger " honours. 



Lily Agnes at this same York August Meeting 

 proved herself a good mare by beating Kaiser in a 

 common canter for the Cup, she being in receipt of 

 20 Ibs. for the year between them. Mr. Snarry was 

 disgusted when he sent her to York to be sold as a 

 yearling at not getting a bid for her, and so she came 

 into the hands of the Osbornes, though she improved so 

 much towards the end of her first year that he refused 

 3000 guineas for her. Robert Peck did not send 



