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lacks stamina. And now, after a few words with George 

 Dawson, who has no Donovan, Ayrshire or Memoir 

 among three-year-olds to triumph with this year, we 

 leave the Heath for this morning, with a balance of 

 opinion in favour of Dorcas, whose owner, by the way, 

 Mr Daniel Cooper, arrived by the 11.20 train on a 

 flying visit to see how his mare is going on. By 

 Wednesday let us hope that the actual winner will have 

 been revealed to us. 



"Daily Graphic" Tuesday, 26th May 1891. 



PREPARING FOR THE DERBY (II.) 



NOTES ON NEWMARKET HEATH 



By " BLINKHOOLIE " 



LITTLE now remains to be done in regard to the Derby 

 favourites. The winding-up operation is practically at 

 an end, and by to-morrow afternoon the labours and 

 hopes of the past month will have culminated one way 

 or another. Newmarket is beginning to look dreary, as 

 one by one the best-known faces go off by the Epsom 

 specials, and one cannot but wonder what it will be like 

 here on the Derby Day. But still the busy discussion 

 goes on among the wiseacres who delight in airing some 

 show of second-hand knowledge. One gentleman calmly 

 assures us that Corstorphine will most certainly beat 

 Mimi in the Oaks ; he is aware that the stable will back 

 Corstorphine, but all the boys in the stable consider 

 Mimi the better. Another tells us that it has long since 

 been settled that George Chaloner shall ride Dorcas in 

 the Derby this despite the fact that Mr Dawson him- 

 self did not know it on Sunday morning. A third 

 declares that when FitzSimon, Old Boots, Simonian and 

 St Simon of the Rock were galloped the other day, the 



