HENRY SAVILE 



doing so. It is rarely indeed that a race over such 

 a distance of ground is run from end to end in this 

 fashion, and Thorn, who was a very bad third, 

 returned to the paddock with his tongue hanging 

 out and perfectly black. Never was a horse more 

 completely " done to a turn," yet he was receiving 

 15 lb. from Uhlan for the year, and had shown 

 himself good enough to win seven out of the eight 

 races in which he had previously taken part that 

 season. Indeed, only three weeks previously. 

 Uhlan had failed to concede him 14 lb. in the 

 York Cup, but then the distance was only a mile 

 and a half, and, as the race was reduced to a match, 

 Mr. Savile's glutton had to make his own running, 

 a thing to which he always had a strong objection. 

 Lilian, a bay filly by Wingrave out of Lady 

 Blanche, by Voltigeur, was always from 7 lb. to 

 10 lb. behind Uhlan, yet her career was so long 

 and remarkable that people remember her who 

 have completely forgotten the horse. In her seven 

 seasons of active service on the Turf she was 

 out no less than 109 times, winning forty-eight 

 races, including Queen's Plates, a truly remarkable 

 record. It is generally supposed that her fine 

 stamina was discovered accidentally by running her 

 as a three-year-old in the Eccentric Free Handicap, 

 a mile and a quarter race at the Lewes August 

 Meeting, and open only to supposed non-stayers. 

 This, however, is a popular error. Gilbert had 

 found out what was her best game long before this, 

 and the original intention was to keep her for the 

 Cesarewitch, but it was finally determined to run 

 her for the Eccentric Free Handicap instead. She 

 carried 6 st. 13 lb. and was ridden by " Billy " 

 Newhouse, about the best light weight of his time, 

 and one who might have had a great career, had he 

 possessed sufficient ballast to keep himself straight 



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