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owned, for the matter of that, was ' Ely,' who was by 

 ' Kingston ' out of ' The Bloomer.' The " beautiful " 

 ' Ely,' as he was called, was a real good colt, and 

 proved himself so as a four-year-old, but he did 

 not have a chance to do so earlier. Tom Olliver, 

 who trained him at Wroughton, had nothing in the 

 spring of 1864 to lead him in his work, try him, or 

 anything else, so naturally he laboured under diffi- 

 culties. As it was, ' Ely ' showed himself to be a 

 lo-lb. better horse in the autumn than in the spring. 

 After being unplaced in ' Blair Athol's ' Derby, 

 ' Ely ' won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, 

 beatino- ' Fille de I'Air,' ' Knioht of Snowdon,' and 

 others, and at the same meeting ran second to 

 ' Blair Athol ' in the Triennial. Other races fol- 

 lowed, and he won at Stockbridge, at Liverpool, and 

 Goodwood. At York ' Ely ' beat ' The Miner,' but 

 at the same meeting was defeated by " Parson " 

 King's horse and ' Blair Athol' in the Great York- 

 shire Stakes. He was unplaced in the St. Leger, 

 but won the Doncaster Stakes and the Triennial. 

 As a four-year-old, in 1865, 'Ely' was beaten by 

 ' Cambuscan ' for the Biennial at the Newmarket 

 Craven, but he turned the tables on Lord Stam- 

 ford's colt for the Beaufort Cup at Bath, Mr. Cart- 

 wright's horse won a race at Ascot early in the week, 



