REGALIA 



followed, had its inevitable result — Regalia throw- 

 ing up her head and declining to gallop a yard 

 when she was asked to go on and win her race. 



The mare ran five times after this, with Heart- 

 field in the saddle on each occasion, but she seemed 

 to have had enough of racing, and never won again. 

 At home, however, she was as good as ever, and 

 you could not put her and Caithness together in 

 private gallops — a circumstance that was nearly 

 costing Stephenson, the great bookmaker, a nice 

 little fortune. After Caithness had incurred an 

 8 lb. penalty by winning the Lincoln Autumn 

 Handicap, he was only in receipt of 9 lb. from his 

 stable companion in the Liverpool Autumn Cup. 

 Still Mr. James Smith fancied him, and Stephen- 

 son, knowing well that the mare could give him 

 three times that amount of weight at home, laid 

 that gentleman 10,000 to 1000 against him, and 

 handed the colt over to him some days before the 

 date fixed for the race. ]Mr. Smith put up Cannon, 

 and it is by no means certain that, with ordinary 

 luck, he would not have won, for Regalia, who 

 started favourite at 100 to 30, never gave a worse 

 exhibition. It was ominous that she stood at the 

 post hke an old sheep, and she was all over the 

 course during the race. However, she indirectly 

 contributed to the defeat of Caithness, as she per- 

 sistently hung to him, and fairly pinned him on to 

 the rails for a long distance, so that, when he at last 

 got free of her, he had not time to catch the placed 

 horses. 



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