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" Uncas went wrong about the time and 

 she was covered six weeks later by Thurio, then 

 by Uncas, and she came to Thurio's time as a 

 June filly. She was bred by my brother 

 Robert, as was Countess Lilian, who was a year 

 older. A useful mare, too, she was, and sold to 

 Mr. Robert Todd for breeding purposes. She 

 died in the spring of '99 at the Fairfield stud, 

 after foaling a dead colt by Aperse, her best 

 produce being Yorkmint and Serapion." 

 Gloriation, by Speculum out of Gloria, was a three- 

 year-old, trained by the Osbornes when he won the 

 Cambridgeshire, carrying 7 st. 6 Ibs., in 1887. He was 

 bred and owned by Mr. Robert Vyner. His form as 

 a two-year-old was not so brilliant as that he revealed 

 in his three-year-old season of 1887, when he carried 

 nearly everything before him. That year he won the 

 Nottingham Spring Handicap, the Doveridge Cup at 

 Derby; at Newcastle Summer Meeting he was beaten 

 at even weights for the Gold Cup by Lady Muncaster, 

 after which he won the Triennial Private Sweepstakes 

 and the great National Breeders' Foal Stakes, for which 

 he was disqualified for carrying the wrong weight. 

 Subsequently he won the Breeders' St. Leger at Derby 

 September Meeting, the Doncaster Stakes at Doncaster 

 September Meeting, and the Grand Duke Michael 

 Stakes at Newmarket First October; then in the 

 Cambridgeshire week he won the Free Handicap, 

 beating Martley, conceding 7 Ibs., by a head, the tussle 

 between Glover on Mr. Vyner's colt and F. Barrett 

 on Martley being a desperate affair. He ran twice in 

 the spring of 1888, and was then expatriated to South 

 America. 



