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all their experience of great racing. The pair raced 

 together, at a tremendous pace, every inch of the 

 last quarter of a mile. Geheimniss won the West- 

 minster Cup at Kempton, carrying iost. 3 lb., and 

 defeating Lowland Chief, 9 st. 3 lb., by half a length. 

 This was one of the mare's most magnificent vic- 

 tories. The pair waited on each other until just 

 within a quarter of a mile of home, and then set 

 themselves going in a manner which those who 

 witnessed the struggle for mastery can never forget. 

 The All Aged Stakes and Queen's Stand Plate 

 at Ascot, and the Stockbridge Cup, in which she 

 gave 5 lb. to Energy and defeated him by three 

 lengths, were notable achievements, and, with her 

 other winnings, made the amount in stakes gained 

 by Geheimniss 2,470/. 



Mr. Brodrick-Cloete, who had meanwhile 

 joined the stable, made his mark with Cherry (by 

 Sterling out of Merry Duchess), whom he had pur- 

 chased of Mr. R. S. Evans for 2,000/. With her he 

 won the Kempton Grand Prize, the Epsom Grand 

 Prize, and walked over for the Knowsley Dinner 

 Stakes at Liverpool, representing a round sum of 

 4,779/. Match Girl, remarkable afterwards as the 

 dam of Match Box, did moderately well in 1884, 

 and the same season the stable boasted a fast two- 

 year-old in a colt by Nuneham out of Rebecca, the 

 property of Mr. John Gretton. The colt was very 

 fast indeed at five furlongs. A couple of un- 

 commonly good two-year-olds, namely Luminary 



