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pair coming right away from Ecossais, who tasted 

 defeat for the first time. The brilliant son of 

 Blair Athol and INIargery Daw was a wonderful 

 two-year-old, but I question if he could get a mile, 

 whilst his badly-shaped fore-legs did not allow him 

 to come down hill Avith any comfort. Atlantic 

 was very unfortunate during the remainder of his 

 brief career. He met with a serious mishap on his 

 road to Epsom, getting through a window and 

 cutting one of his legs, though it is doubtful if he 

 could have beaten George Frederick under any 

 circumstances, for Mr. Cartwright's colt was a 

 very good one indeed on the Derby day. Tom 

 Osborne rode Atlantic at Epsom, and Fordham 

 was on his back at Ascot, where he failed to give 

 12 lb. to Leolinus in the Prince of Waless Stakes, 

 but carried off the Ascot Derby on the following 

 day, Peut-etre, who won the Cambridgeshire of 

 that year, being last of the four runners. He 

 was then reserved for the St. Leger, and was 

 getting on nicely with his preparation for that 

 race, when he unluckily broke a blood-vessel as he 

 was galloping up Long Hill. The same mishap 

 occurred in the race itself, and he was then sold to 

 go to France, where he proved a very valuable 

 stallion, Le Sancy being about the best of his 

 get. 



Not only did Queen Bertha win the first great 

 race that ever fell to the lot of Lord Falmouth, 

 but she proved as invaluable to him as a brood 

 mare as did INIendicant to Sir Joseph Hawley, or 

 Mowerina to the Duke of Portland. Gertrude, 

 her filly by Saunterer, was more than useful, 

 though never quite in the first class ; but her 

 union with JNIacaroni produced something of a 

 better type in the bay filly Spinaway. Though 

 rather on the small side, she did not come to hand 



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