DANEBURY DAYS 



could live with her when once she set herself 

 going. No filly ever possessed a finer constitu- 

 tion, indeed she never left an oat during the whole 

 of her first season. Her debut was made in very 

 modest fashion in the Sulby Stakes at North- 

 ampton, which was only worth £55, and she 

 also took the Althorp Park Stakes at the 

 same meeting, in which Suffolk and Uncas 

 were the best of the nine that finished behind 

 her. She then appears to have gone temporarily 

 "off," for she had only a neck the best of a 

 very close finish with an extremely moderate 

 trio in the Salisbury Stakes, whilst Grimston 

 ran her to a short head in the Weston Stakes 

 at Bath, and then, after dead-heating with her 

 for the Two -year -old Stakes at Epsom, was 

 only defeated a head in the run -off. Still 

 these two events were only half-mile sprints, 

 and Lady Elizabeth's stamina was even more 

 remarkable than her speed, whilst Mr. Pryor's 

 somewhat unlucky little colt must have been 

 wonderfully smart just then, as Blue Gown and 

 Formosa were amongst the beaten lot at Bath, 

 and King Alfred finished third at Epsom. 



A more important engagement — in the New 

 Stakes — than any that Lady Elizabeth had yet 

 fulfilled took place only a fortnight later, and, 

 as the stable did not believe in the correct- 

 ness of her running at Salisbury, Bath, and 

 Epsom, it was determined to try to ascertain 

 how good she really was. Accordingly John Day 

 went to Ascot with the rest of the horses that 

 were to run there, and Enoch was left behind 

 to superintend one of the severest questions 

 ever put to a two-year-old. Enoch was out 

 before three o'clock on the Tuesday morning of 

 the Ascot week — the touts at Danebury certainly 



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