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that she should win the Yorkshire Oaks, for Lord 

 Falmouth rarely missed this event, and she only 

 had a couple of very moderate opponents, but she 

 was still far from being at her best, and, two days 

 later, Peppermint and Nellie were both in front of 

 her for the Great Yorkshire Stakes. About a 

 week later, however, she suddenly began to " come 

 on" in remarkable fashion, and did three really 

 good gallops between then and the date of the 

 St. Leger. In that race she was luckily caught 

 just at her best, and, though Archer had to put up 

 a pound overweight, she brought off a 40 to 1 

 chance with something in hand. The running was 

 probably correct enough, for Geheimniss, who beat 

 all the others easily enough, shone principally over 

 sprint courses, and had no pretensions to get a 

 mile and three - quarters in the best company. 

 Dutch Oven's subsequent performance in the 

 Great Foal Stakes at the First October Meeting 

 gave proof of the enormous improvement she had 

 made in a month. In the Great Yorkshire Stakes 

 she had run fully 7 lb. worse than Nellie, but at 

 Newmarket she gave that amount of weight to 

 Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's filly, and another 7 

 lb. would scarcely have brought them together, 

 whilst the poor show made by Comte Alfred 

 showed how utterly wrong the Goodwood running 

 of the pair had been. Nor did the filly do at all 

 badly at the Second October Meeting, although 

 Tristan and Thebais were a little too good for her 

 in the Champion Stakes. It is a singular fact that 

 very few of Lord Falmouth's cracks really trained 

 on, and Dutch Oven was no exception to the rule. 

 She certainly won a couple of races as a four-year- 

 old, but they were not of much account, and she 

 had bad luck in constantly meeting Tristan, who 

 was invariably too good for her ; probably she was 



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