LORD FALMOUTH 



early, indeed it was only in the last of her three 

 essays as a two-year-old that she gave any promise 

 of future excellence. This was the Home-bred 

 Sweepstakes at the Houghton Meeting, in which 

 Seymour and New Holland were respectively 

 second and third to her. The first of these was a 

 brown colt by Lord Clifden out of Fabiola, who, 

 after beinii beaten in eleven of the twelve races in 

 which he took part, actually started first favourite 

 at 4 to 1 for the St. Leger won by Craig Millar, a 

 case which, I fancy, must be quite unique. It is, 

 however, through New Holland that the rapid im- 

 provement made by Spinaway can be best gauged, 

 for only a fortnight previously he had beaten her by 

 four lengths, whereas, in the Home-bred Sweep- 

 stakes he was nearly that distance behind her. 

 This improvement must have continued through 

 the winter, for though she started at 10 to 1 for 

 the One Thousand — a very liberal price in a field 

 of only half-a-dozen — she won by a couple of 

 lengths from Per Se. Her stable companion, 

 Ladylove, a beautiful chesnut filly by Elair Athol 

 out of Vergiss-mein-nicht, was nearly as good a 

 favourite for the Oaks, but had no chance with 

 Spinaway, though she finished in front of the 

 other five runners. The filly could scarcely have 

 been herself when Gilbert, with a very slight ad- 

 vantage in the weights, upset the odds laid on her 

 for the Ascot Derby, and this idea is confirmed by 

 the fact that the moderate Earl of Derby gave her 

 9 lb. and got within a length of her. However, 

 she soon came round and credited herself with 

 nine brackets in succession, one of these being 

 gained by a walk over, and another through re- 

 ceiving forfeit in a match with Per Se. It is 

 needless to go into the details of all these victories, 

 by far the most important of them being gained in 



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