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and then ran a dead heat with ' General Peel ' 

 for the x'\scot Gold Cup. In the run off odds of 

 2 to I were laid on ' General Peel,' who was beaten 

 in a canter by twelve lengths. ' Ely ' next won the 

 Goodwood Cup, giving 7 lb. and a two-lengths beat- 

 ing to ' Cambuscan '; and the next week at Brighton 

 he carried 9 st. 10 lb. in the Brighton Cup, and won 

 by six lengths, giving 'Cambuscan' 10 lb., and 

 ' Caller Ou ' 8 lb. This was a very great perform- 

 ance, as he was conceding ' Caller Ou ' three years 

 in age, as well as the weight, which no other horse 

 ever accomplished. 



Mr. Cartwright also had some other good horses. 

 ' Albert Victor ' was one, and he beat ' Favonius ' 

 in the Newmarket Biennial, and was second (running 

 a dead heat with ' King of the Forest ') to Baron 

 Rothschild's colt in the Derby of 1871. Curiously 

 enough, ' George Frederick ' was third to the dead 

 heaters, ' Miss Toto ' and ' Reverberation,' in the 

 same race at headquarters in 1874, but won the 

 Derby afterwards. He was a smart colt the day he 

 won at Epsom. ' George Frederick ' had the worst- 

 looking shoulders I ever saw to come down a hill, 

 but there is no getting away from the fact that he 

 could use them ; and I never rode a horse which came 

 round Tattenham Corner better than he did. This 



