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Pearson, and myself. Not so with my old friend 

 James Dover, who always maintained that they had 

 behaved badly to me. What was worse, the owner 

 of ' Achievement ' would not, or did not, admit it, 

 after it was so clearly proved that the filly was out 

 of all form at Epsom. When I saw her walking 

 round the paddock at York in the August meeting 

 looking the picture of health, and with that beautiful 

 jaunty walk of hers, I could hardly think it was the 

 same animal. However, she was just as well as she 

 looked, and she won the Great Yorkshire Stakes in 

 a canter. As it turned out, I was correct in my 

 judgment, as 'Achievement' beat me on ' Hermit' 

 in the St. Leger, and, with Kenyon up, won the 

 Doncaster Cup two days later, again defeating 

 ' Hermit,' who was piloted by Jeffery. 



There never were two more different animals for 

 brother and sister than ' Lord Lyon ' and ' Achieve- 

 ment.' Both of their portraits, painted by Harry 

 Hall, are in front of me as I write, and show the 

 greatest dissimilarity. ' Lord Lyon ' as a three- 

 year-old stood 15.3, with good bone, looking like 

 carrying 14 st. to hounds, with very short pastern 

 joints and flat feet. ' Achievement ' stood over 16 

 hands as a two-year-old. She was very light of 

 bone, with long pastern joints, and leggy ; but she 



