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could not be trained as a three-year-old, still holds the place 

 of chief lord of the harem at the adjoining Blink Bonny stud 

 farm, and since he was to the fore Highfield has known an 

 endless succession of big winners. For Mr. Perkins I'Anson 

 won the Goodwood Cup in two successive years with Dresden 

 China and Madame Du Barry, and afterwards came Roe- 

 hampton, Chislehurst, Breadknife, Castor, Jenny Howlet — 

 who won the Oaks in 1880 — Hambledon, Newcourt, Chitta- 

 bob, Self-Sacrifice, The Baker, and many others who made 

 their mark. 



It is I'Anson's opinion that Self-Sacrifice was the best mare 

 which the North country has known for many years, and he 

 even now thinks that she would have won the St. Leger if 

 she had been ridden exactly to orders. Colling was instructed 

 to take up the running at the Red House, so as to avoid any 

 chance of being shut in at the Intake Turn ; but his zeal got 

 the better of his discretion, and instead of quietly going to 

 the front, he shot his mare clean away, and went on some 

 half-dozen lengths — or more — in front of his nearest op- 

 ponent. At a mile and a half he had well won, but the 

 pace he went rode the mare down, and she had nothing left 

 to stall off the challenge of Isinglass when the Derby winner 

 came up. That there was much justification for this opinion 

 of the Malton-trained filly will be understood when I state 

 that Self-Sacrifice won a most extraordinary trial ten days 

 before the St. Leger. She was tried with Newcourt and 

 Shancrotha, of whom the former won two Northumberland 

 Plates, and the latter a brace of Manchester Cups (the 

 second a dead-heat with Red Ensign), and was asked to give 

 Newcourt two years and 18 lbs. This she accomplished 

 cleverly, and I do not know that I ever heard of a three- 

 year-old winning such a handicap trial. 



Another good but very unlucky horse who hailed from 

 Highfield not so many years ago was Chittabob, who beat 

 Donovan as a two-year-old in the Whitsuntide Plate at Man- 

 chester. This good-looking horse was always mysteriously 

 lame, and at no period of his career was the exact cause of 

 his lameness known. He was lame as a yearling, when the 

 process of breaking was gone through, and ever afterwards 



