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four comparatively unimportant races of the 

 eighteen in which she took part during the next 

 two seasons, and her stud career was, unhappily, 

 a very brief one, as, after producing Holmby to 

 Lord Clifden, she slipped twins and died. 



Corisande was a bay filly by King Tom out of 

 May Bloom, and, as will be gathered from what 

 I have already written, her three-year-old career 

 was very much sacrificed to that of her stable 

 companion, for there is no doubt that Baron 

 Rothschild was in the happy position of being 

 able to win the One Thousand and Oaks with 

 either of the pair, and it was possibly the fact of 

 Hannah being named after his only child that 

 induced him to give the preference to her at 

 Newmarket and Epsom. It seems pretty certain 

 that Corisande made her first appearance in public 

 before she was nearly ready, for there is no other 

 way of accounting for such moderate fillies as The 

 Penguin and Queen of the Gipsies finishing in 

 front of her at the Newmarket First Spring. 

 Indeed, but for an accident, she would not have 

 run again until the July INIeeting. Favonius was 

 sent to Ascot for the New Stakes, but, when he was 

 unboxed, Mr. de Rothschild — the present Lord 

 Rothschild — discovered that he was lame, and per- 

 suaded Baron INIeyer to telegraph for Corisande to 

 take his place. The residt was highly satisfactory, 

 as she won by a neck from Bothwell, and beat 

 Queen of the Gipsies so far that the previous 

 running of the pair was conclusively shown to be 

 all wrong. At the Newmarket July Corisande 

 had a very busy time of it, winning three races, 

 including the Chesterfield Stakes, on three con- 

 secutive days ; and then she did not come out 

 again until Doncaster, where she took a complete 

 revenge upon The Penguin. Both she and Hannah 



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