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LORD FALMOUTH {Concluded) 



A YEAR younger than Lady Golightly, and infinitely 

 her superior in class, was Jannette, a great lengthy 

 bay filly by Lord Clifden out of Chevisaunce, 

 whose first season was an unbroken series of 

 triumphs. She had never been formally tried before 

 carrying silk for the first time in a Triennial at 

 Ascot, but it must have been pretty generally 

 guessed that she was fairly smart, and as the oppo- 

 sition was weak, both numerically and in point of 

 class, slight odds were laid on her. This race told 

 very little as to her ability, and it was decided to 

 find out something as to her real merit before 

 she was sent to Goodwood for the valuable 

 Richmond Stakes. Childeric, a remarkably fine 

 colt by Scottish Chief out of Gertrude, had just 

 won the Chesterfield Stakes from a large field, and 

 at four o'clock one morning he and Jannette were 

 put together on the Lime Kilns. Archer rode 

 Childeric, and Swift was on the filly, the latter 

 winning by five lengths in very easy fashion. The 

 result of this trial placed the Richmond Stakes 

 quite at the mercy of Jannette, for The Spark, 

 who had only finished third to Childeric in the 

 Chesterfield, proved to be the best of her 

 opponents. Subsequently to Goodwood Jannette 



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