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been much wrong with Favonius, or he would not 

 have beaten Mortenier — one of the most brilHant 

 all-round performers that I can call to mind — by a 

 neck for second place. The Brighton Cup, which 

 was then run over a two-mile course, and was a far 

 more important event tlian it is at the present day, 

 fell an easy prey to Favonius, as Corisande was 

 started to help him, and the opposition was very 

 feeble. It is noteworthy, however, that he was 

 giving 11 lb. to his stable companion, who finished 

 a bad third, as this amply confirms the truth of the 

 home trials, which always showed him to be fully 

 16 lb. in front of Hannah. Sterling and he both 

 carried 8 st. 11 lb. in the Cambridgeshire, and hfe 

 finished behind the son of Oxford, who was an 

 extraordinary performer when not asked to travel 

 much beyond a mile ; whilst, later in the week, he 

 was allowed to walk over for a 200 sov. sweepstakes 

 over the last mile and a half of the Cesarewitch 

 Course. 



Favonius made a capital start in the following 

 season by winning the Newmarket Biennial for four- 

 year-olds over the D.I. M. Lefevre's Ravenshoe 

 was a red-hot favourite, but Baron Rothschild's 

 colt gave him 17 lb. without the smallest apparent 

 difficulty. At the following Newmarket Meeting 

 he beat Dutch Skater over the same course ; but 

 his visit to Ascot was not a success, for Henry was 

 too good for him in the Gold Cup, and he was 

 unplaced to Musket for the Alexandra Plate, though 

 it must be mentioned that he had the worse of the 

 weights with that great stayer. At the same time 

 he was probably not quite himself just tlien, for, in 

 the latter race, Albert Victor, in receipt of 5 lb., 

 finished a long way in front of him, whereas, when 

 the pair met again in the Goodwood Cup about six 

 weeks later, Favonius gave 7 lb., and beat his old 



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