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moderate, Diamond Jubilee was backed against the field, 

 in spite of his wayward show at Ascot. 



Watts again had the mount, and the colt got rid of him 

 at the post, galloping riderless to the back of the stands. 

 He was caught and taken back, but in the race he would not 

 try a yard, and finished the absolute last of the half-dozen, 

 something like eighty yards behind Captain Kettle and 

 Galveston, the first-named — a great lengthy son of 

 Buccaneer and Comette, who was bred by Mr. Waring 

 at Beenham House — winning cleverly for Mr. Wallace John- 

 stone in Allsopp's hands. A more wayward performance 

 on the part of a good-looking young horse who was known 

 to possess smart form was never seen, but even then his 

 stable, and the general public also, were not wholly dis- 

 couraged, for at Goodwood, when he ran for the Prince of 

 Wales' Stakes, they again made him favourite, taking as 

 little as 7 to 4 about him, although one of his opponents 

 was Alt-na-bea, who had run third in the July Stakes 

 referred to above. This time M. Cannon had the mount, 

 and though it was quite evident that Diamond Jubilee had 

 the foot of his field, he curled up when the pinch came, and 

 allowed himself to be beaten half a length by the very 

 moderate Epsom Lad. 



After Goodwood nothing was seen of the future Derby 

 winner until the Newmarket First October Meeting, when 

 he was sent to the post for the Boscawen Stakes. The best 

 of his opponents appeared to be Vulpio, a good winner in 

 the early spring, and it having been rumoured that Diamond 

 Jubilee had mended his manners, he was once more en- 

 trusted with good money, and was in fact an even -money 

 chance in a field of five. This time (his fourth race in 

 public) he gave a much better display, but he only got 

 home after a hard fight with Paigle, and many were inclined 

 to decry the form because Paigle had run him to a head. 

 In this they were quite wrong, for Paigle was decidedly 

 smart at the time, as was proved by the fact that, three 

 weeks later, she very easily won the Great Sapling Plate 

 at Sandown, giving a lot of weight away to Lady Min, 

 Strongbow, and others, while Longy, who met her on weight- 



