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Avas herself again a few weeks after Ascot, and 

 carried all before her for the rest of the season. 

 Thurio, in spite of his victory in the Grand Prix 

 de Paris, had no chance of giving her 8 lb. in 

 the Midsummer Stakes at the Newmarket July 

 Meeting, and the Yorkshire Oaks, which Lord 

 Falmouth fairly farmed for several years, was 

 only a nice exercise gallop for her. The marked 

 superiority that she had shown to Childeric in 

 their trial as two -year -olds was exactly borne 

 out in the St. Leger, in which the pair finished 

 first and second, just as Silvio and Lady Golightly 

 had done twelve months previously, except 

 that, in this case, " the mare proved the better 

 horse," and so little did the race take out of her 

 that there was no hesitation about pulling her 

 out again for the Park Hill Stakes on the last 

 day of the meeting. This was followed up by 

 her success in the Champion Stakes, to which I 

 have already alluded when dealing with Silvio, 

 whilst, later in the afternoon, she gave 7 lb. and 

 a length beating to Clementine in the Newmarket 

 Oaks. It would have been best for Jannette's 

 reputation if she had not been kept in training 

 for another year, for, as so very often happens, 

 she was never so good as at the end of her second 

 season, and was beaten in five of the seven races 

 in which she took part as a four-year-old. One 

 of these defeats, however, was more meritorious 

 than most victories. This was in the Doncaster 

 Cup, in which she ran Isonomy to a head at 

 weight for sex, and, only a month later, Mr. 

 Gretton's great horse carried 9 st. 10 lb. into 

 fourth place for the Cesarewitch, a race that he 

 would very nearly have won had he not been 

 sacrificed to his stable companion, Westbourne. 

 Jannette's last race was a highly creditable win 



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