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on over the Goodwood Stakes, and to be sold after the Great Northern Handicap 

 for ,5,000. Fred never backed "anything that could talk," or perhaps Wallace 

 might have let out the fact that he cost less than ^100. I need scarcely add that 

 the highly popular winner of that 1860 Derby was Mr. Merry's Thormanby, one 

 of the very best he or any one else ever owned. His Dundee got second on three 

 legs the next year, and his Buckstone was third to Caractacus. Mr. Merry's chief 

 trainers were William Day and Matthew Dawson, and his greatest triumph was 

 in 1873, when he won the Derby with Doncaster and the Oaks and St. Leger with 





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" Busybody " by " Petrarch " (1881). 



Marie Stuart; but throughout his political career he was known by Lord 

 Beaconsfield's happy appellation of " The Member for Thormanby" 



Mr. Merry would have added the Derby of 1870 to his score if MacGregor had 

 not broken clown. But the disaster gave Lord Falmouth his first Derby with 

 Kingcraft, and a career began that has few parallels in the history of racing. When 

 the "black jacket, white sleeves, and red cap" were seen no more upon the Turf, 

 Matthew Dawson and Fred Archer presented Lord Falmouth with a silver shield on 

 which were inscribed the names of the winners of two Derbys, three Oaks, three 



