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the York Cup, in which she easily disposed of such 

 celebrities as Thunder and Lily Agnes at v/eight 

 for age. Possibly she was getting a little stale 

 when she ran for the Jockey Club Cup, the field 

 for which was certainly the best that ever took 

 part in the race, and included Gang Forward, 

 Kaiser, Apology, Balfe, Nougat, and Carnelion. 

 The last mentioned, who was one of the very few 

 good ones ever got by Lecturer, won by a neck, 

 and Apology, conceding 21 lb. to Spinaway for 

 the year, kept her out of second place. This was 

 the last time that she ever carried colours, and 

 Swift sums her up as "a great doer, and very 

 honest little filly." 



In 1876 the best of Lord Falmouth's two-year- 

 olds were Silvio and Lady Golightly. The colt 

 was by Blair Athol out of Silverhair, and the only 

 oriofin I could ever discover for the absurd state- 

 ments which were occasionally made that he was 

 really by Macaroni, was that he was a bay instead 

 of a chesnut. A gallop with the Duke of St. 

 Albans' Crann Tair first opened the eyes of the 

 stable to the fact that Silvio was something quite 

 out of the common. This very speedy daughter 

 of Lord Lyon and White Squall made her debut 

 in a half mile Maiden Plate at the Newmarket 

 July Meeting. She was backed against the field, 

 which ran into double figures, and carried Archer 

 home ten lengths in front of her nearest follower. 

 A few days later she and Silvio were put together, 

 with such a satisfactory result so far as the latter 

 was concerned that 11 to 4 was laid on him when 

 he ran for the first time — in the Ham Stakes at 

 Goodwood — and these odds were fully justified by 

 the result. The colt was not out again until the 

 Buckenham Stakes at the First October Meeting, 

 for which he was again a hot favourite, but Count 



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