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She was then really getting back into her form. 



She was a great mare that afternoon she won 



the Ascot Cup ; and so she was in the St. Leger 



and the Oaks. She was in season on the Oaks 



day; in fact, on the morning of the race I had 



to give her a smack or two to make her canter. 



She was quite a different mare in the afternoon. 



She jumped off at once and went as freely as 



possible. Of course, I could never account for 



her lameness on the St. Leger morning. Maybe 



it was a little stiffness; it might have been her 



shoulder. She was lame in her shoulder two 



or three times when she was a three-year-old. 



She walked sound and free as possible on the 



Leger day, but in trotting she went quite lame. 



" Now you ask me what is my idea about 



roaring in horses. Well, it is often brought on 



by illness, though some horses are roarers from 



one cause and some from another. I have known 



a number of horses go roarers from illness. One 



instance in point was a colt called Upleatham, 



by Zetland out of Ophelia. When he was first 



tried Agility and Toreador were in the spin. 



Agility won by half a length, and he was beaten 



half a length from Toreador. That year our 



horses brought an illness from Manchester. 



This colt Upleatham took it, and he became a 



roarer ; so bad, indeed, that he roared even when 



trotting. I sold him at Northallerton races for 



16 guineas. He was a good-looking horse, with 



immense bone. That illness left him a wreck; 



he was as sound as a ' bell of brass ' before he 



took it. He was such a bad roarer that I never 



tried to train him, and what became of him I 



