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sweepstakes for two - year - olds. He suggested 

 that she should be called Daughter of the Star, 

 and the incident evidently remained in his mind, 

 for, in his well-known novel, Coningsby, he 

 makes Sidonia go to the races to see his two-year- 

 old win. Hippia began a very busy career at 

 Northampton, where she ran Mr. Pitt — a very 

 speedy three-year-old belonging to the late Duke 

 of Beaufort — to a neck in the Whittlebury Stakes, 

 though it must be mentioned that he was giving 

 her 38 lb. for the year, which is rather in excess of 

 the present scale of weight for age, a scale which 

 always appears to me to be all in favour of the 

 younger division, whether it is a case of twos 

 against threes, or threes against fours. Another 

 outing on the following afternoon resulted in 

 her succumbing by a head to Problem in a half- 

 mile sweepstakes ; but these two races evidently 

 sharpened her up and did her good, for she then 

 scored four times in succession. The most valuable 

 of these victories was gained in the Sunning Hill 

 Stakes at the Ascot Spring Meeting, in which she 

 was beaten by Mr. Savile's D'Estournel, who was 

 disqualified on the ground of a cannon. It was a 

 little singular that Hippia should have been ridden 

 in this event by Morris, who was on Galopin, 

 eight years later, when that colt was beaten by 

 Cashmere in the Hyde Park Plate at Epsom, but 

 got the race on a precisely similar objection. She 

 accomplished a very smart " double " at the Ascot 

 Summer Meeting, as Saccharometer, Ostreger, The 

 Duke, and Marksman were amongst the large field 

 that she beat for the Queen's Stand Plate, and 

 Friponnier and Vespasian were respectively second 

 and third to her for the Fern Hill Stakes. There 

 was no disgrace in succumbing to Achievement in 

 the Chesterfield Stakes, for Col. Pearson's wonder- 



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