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couple of lengths — with Insulaire and Touchet vainly 

 toiling on in the rear. After securing the Goodwood 

 Cup — by three lengths — beating The Bear and 

 others, he conferred further distinction on the Sussex 

 fortnight by easily capturing the Brighton trophy. 

 They laid 10 to 1 on him for the latter race. 



At York he called forth a Knavesmire edition of 

 1 the Yorkshire cheer ' by cantering home a victor — 

 by eight lengths — in the Great Ebor Handicap, with 

 9 st. 10 lb. on his back, having to carry his burthen — 

 as Porter has already remarked in proof that all 

 kinds of going were the same to him — over, not to 

 say through, a quarter of a mile of a course more 

 than fetlock deep. He was defeated once, not 

 fairly and squarely, with room to do his best, but 

 through being knocked over by his stable companion, 

 Westbourne, and by Dresden China. This was in 

 the Cesarewitch. Mr. F. Gretton had backed 

 Westbourne to win him 50,000/., and had also backed 

 Isonomy for a little. Porter feels certain that but 

 for the accident which befell Isonomy he would 

 have carried his 9 st. 10 lb. to victory. Westbourne 

 was in the Cambridgeshire and was made first 

 favourite, but inasmuch as the owner was unable 

 to obtain the price he wanted and felt that he had a 

 right to have, the pen was put through the horse's 

 name, and the owner ran him in the Newmarket 

 Derby instead. That race he won by three lengths, 

 defeating Lancastrian and three others. This 

 was a sweetener to Mr. Gretton, who landed a 

 single bet of 7,000/. to 4,000/. In 1880 the glorious 



