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not absolutely the very best, everything considered, 

 inasmuch as she was a mare that with her tempera- 

 ment called for the most careful training. And 

 now a word about the St. Leger. As if to show 

 how false the running in the Derby had been, when, 

 as we have pointed out, she was perfectly fit and 

 well, La Fleche beat Sir Hugo in a canter by a 

 couple of lengths. Next to him came her stable 

 companion, Watercress. Orme, who started first 

 favourite with 11 to 10 on, was unable to finish in 

 the first four. The Grand Duke Michael and the 

 Newmarket Oaks, which she won quite as a matter 

 of course, call for no special comment, but the 

 Cambridgeshire, her final achievement in 1892, 

 does. The mare won carrying 8 st. 10 lb., and 

 beating Pensioner (3 yrs., 6 st. 4 lb.). Windgall's 

 running in the Old Cambridgeshire Handicap, which 

 Pensioner (6 st. 4 lb.) won, beating Windgall (8 st.) 

 by a head, supplies a relative measurement of the 

 respective form of Baron de Hirsch's pair. The 

 mare was that much better than the colt, with 

 probably ' a bit over.' 



It is deemed sufficient to say here of Watercress, 

 another of the Baron's string, that he was ' a brilliant 

 miler.' Indeed at that distance he was little, if 

 anything, inferior to La Fleche. The close of the 

 season of 1892 witnessed the withdrawal of the 

 horses respectively owned by the Prince of Wales 

 and the Baron de Hirsch from Kingsclere, in con- 

 sequence of a misunderstanding with the manager 

 of the united stud. The affair was destitute of any 



