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lengths, whilst Gertrude, who had carried off the 

 Great Yorkshire Stakes in the preceding week, was 

 a couple of lengths in front of the Derby winner. 

 This form was too bad to be true, and Kingcraft 

 easily reversed the result with Wheatear at 

 Doncaster, but succumbed to Hawthornden by 

 half a length. After this he degenerated very 

 rapidly, and it is unnecessary to trace his further 

 career. He took part in a great many handicaps, 

 a very unusual thing in the case of a horse belonging 

 to Lord Falmouth, but, for a couple of seasons, he 

 never got nearer than second. Subsequent to his 

 memorable Epsom triumph he was beaten eighteen 

 times in succession, but at last, when he was six 

 years old, Fred Archer got him home first for 

 the Great Lancashire Handicap at the Liverpool 

 Autumn JNIeeting. It was not a brilliant victory, 

 as the four-year-old Vanderdecken, who was giving 

 him 14 lb., was not beaten a length, but it enabled 

 him to leave off a winner, and the Turf knew him 

 no more. There is little doubt that he was a high- 

 class two-year-old, until ruined by the desperate 

 finish for the Middle Park Plate, and he will always 

 be remembered as one of the most moderate on all 

 the long list of Derby winners. 



It is needless to devote any space to Cecilia, 

 a bay filly by Blair Athol out of Siberia, who 

 comes next amongst Lord Falmouth's classic 

 winners. She ran ten times in all, and her only 

 victory was gained in the One Thousand Guineas, 

 a case to which I can remember no parallel. How 

 she ever achieved her solitary success is a complete 

 mystery. Certainly, Marie Stuart, always a good 

 21 lb. or more in front of her, was dead amiss on 

 that day from natural causes, but Cecilia's stable 

 companion. Silver Ring, was her superior as a 

 two-year-old, and such as Angela, Windermere, 



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