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to hand ; it was not until the middle of his 

 first season that he took a real start, and he 

 never approached his best form until he was 

 three years old. Still he managed to win four of 

 the twelve engagements he fulfilled as a two- 

 year old, and perhaps his best performance at 

 that age was accomplished when he beat 

 Baron Rothschild's Suffolk by four lengths in 

 the Rutland Stakes at the Newmarket First 

 October. It does not do, however, to make too 

 much of this feat, for Suffolk was always 

 an uncertain performer, and reversed positions 

 with The Earl before the end of the year. See- 

 Saw, by Buccaneer out of Margery Daw, a 

 mare that afterwards threw Ecossias to Blair 

 Athol, was another backward two - year - old, 

 who did not give much taste of his quality 

 during his first season. He certainly won five of 

 the thirteen races he ran at that age, but he 

 did not have much behind him, and no weight 

 in reason would have brought him upsides 

 with Lady Elizabeth. He was a brown, very 

 straight in front, and a bad goer in his slow 

 paces, but possessed of magnificent quarters, 

 which gave him enormous propelling power, 

 and materially assisted him to win the 

 Cambridgeshire and the Royal Hunt Cup. 

 As, however, he had passed out of the posses- 

 sion of the Marquis of Hastings before these 

 triumphs were accomplished I need not dwell 

 upon them here. 



Athena, who won ten out of the fourteen 

 races in which she took part as a two-year-old, 

 would have been estimated far more highly if 

 she had been in any other stable than that in 

 which Lady Elizabeth was trained. She was 

 a big, very good - looking chesnut filly by 



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