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and still say, exactly the same thing about Kisber, 

 and would doubtless tell a similar tale about 

 any real "smasher" that came from abroad and 

 lowered our colours. To my thinking the career 

 of Gladiateur is quite sufficient proof, if any were 

 needed, of the utter groundlessness of Mr. Graham's 

 objection. It is easy to understand that a com- 

 paratively moderate four-year-old would win a 

 Derby pretty comfortably, but the younger horses 

 would be catching him at Leger time, and, in the 

 following season, would be in front of him. What 

 do we find, however, in Gladiateur's case ? He 

 beats Archimedes by a neck in the Two Thousand, 

 and by three lengths and a half in the St. Leger ; 

 whilst the three lengths he is in front of Regaha 

 in the latter race is increased to forty lengths in 

 the Ascot Cup. Indeed his superiority to all his 

 contemporaries was never more strongly marked 

 than at the end of his wonderful career. 



To return, however, to Regalia. For the re- 

 mainder of the season her efforts were almost 

 entirely confined to Queen's Plates, for which she 

 was either allowed to walk over or encountered a 

 merely nominal opposition, but her essays in the 

 Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire were unsuccessful, 

 though the weights she had to carry — 8 st. 9 lb. 

 and 8 st. 6 lb. respectively — were very big ones in 

 those days of a 5 st. 7 lb. minimum. The fiUy 

 began again in the March of the following year, 

 and her victory in the Trial Stakes at Northampton 

 was one of the smartest of all her achievements, 

 and bears out my previous statement that a mile 

 was about her very best distance. She beat that 

 very speedy horse. The Duke, by three parts of a 

 length, Elland was a bad third, Saccharometer, 

 who, with 9 st. in the saddle, had only failed by a 

 neck to give 49 lb. to Treasure Trove in the 



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