DANEBURY DAYS 



At the end of that season she was purchased 

 by Lord Rosebery, and won a couple of 

 unimportant races for him, but most of her 

 form had then deserted her. 



The Duke of Beaufort's Europa was a ches- 

 nut filly with white legs and face, by Trumpeter 

 out of lonica. Her career was a very short and 

 brilliant one, as it only extended from Ascot to 

 Goodwood, in which nine weeks she ran seven 

 races, winning six off the reel, and being beaten 

 a head for the last. Her first performance was 

 distinctly her best, as Uncas, Formosa, JNIichael 

 de Basco, Restitution, and Vale Royal werQ 

 amongst the eleven that she beat for a Triennial 

 at Ascot, but it is impossible to regard this 

 form as correct, and she probably owed her 

 success to being fitter than the majority of 

 her opponents, for there is no doubt that she 

 was always 14 lb. behind Athena. The Marquis 

 of Hastings' Mameluke, a bay colt by Stock- 

 well out of Leila, was another two -year -old 

 that could gallop a bit during 1867, and a good 

 deal of the money that had been lost through 

 Athena's defeat by Leonie at Stockbridge was 

 recovered in the very next race, the Donnington 

 Post Stakes, another 1000 soa^ sweep. This, like 

 the Hamilton Post Stakes, was left to the Mar- 

 ([uis of Hastings and the Duke of Hamilton, 

 but the result was reversed, Fordham and 

 IMameluke doing Arthur Edwards and Innerdale 

 by a head. Nor must I forget the Duke of Beau- 

 fort's Gomera, who was foaled in 1862, and was, 

 therefore, a five-year-old in the season of which 

 T am writing. She was by Marsyas out of Palma, 

 and was a beautiful chesnut mare with a white 

 blaze on her face. As a two -year -old she was 

 no good at all, being terribly nervous, and John 



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