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as a two-year-old. Two days later Dutch Oven 

 carried off the Rous Memorial Stakes; on this occa- 

 sion she was three lengths in front of St. Marguerite, 

 but it must be remembered that the latter, being 

 by Hermit, would scarcely relish a couple of races 

 in forty-eight hours. There was no disgrace in 

 failing to give 7 lb. to Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's 

 Nellie in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at York, 

 for this daughter of Hermit and Hippia was very 

 smart ; and Dutch Oven's next outing was in the 

 Champion Breeders' Foal Stakes at Derby, in 

 which she had little trouble in disposing of 

 Despair and fourteen others. Kermesse was a 

 little too good for her in the Champagne Stakes at 

 Doncaster, in which Nellie had no chance against 

 her at even weights, and she wound up her two- 

 year-old season in great style with five consecutive 

 brackets. She defeated Nellie twice more, although 

 there was not very much in it between them, and 

 retired into winter quarters after giving 4 lb., her 

 sex allowance, and a head beating to Marden in 

 the Dewhurst Plate. She had won nine out of 

 the twelve races in which she had taken part, and 

 credited Lord Falmouth with £9429 : 5s. in stakes. 

 Her first race as a three -year -old was in the 

 Derby, for which she was not at all fancied, as, in 

 spite of the strong following that Archer had 

 amongst the general public, the effect of which 

 was more noticeable at Epsom than upon any 

 other racecourse, her starting price was 10 to 1, 

 and she did not finish within many lengths of 

 Shotover. Backed against the field for the Sussex 

 Stakes at Goodwood she could only run a moderate 

 third to Comte Alfred and Battlefield, though it 

 may be noted that she quite reversed her form 

 with Sachem, who had filled third place in the 

 Derby. It was only in the natural order of things 



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