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rival in a canter by ten lengths. His next outing 

 was in a Queen's Plate over the Cesarewitch course 

 at the Newmarket First October, in which he fairly- 

 distanced Reine, the winner of the One Thousand 

 and Oaks of that year, although he was giving her 

 17 lb., a very big task so late in the season. It must 

 seem strange indeed to the racing men of the 

 present day to read of animals of this class com- 

 peting for a prize of 100 guineas, but such an 

 occurrence was common enough thirty years ago, 

 and I think that we enjoyed considerably better 

 sport then than can be witnessed at present, at an 

 infinitely smaller outlay. This was the colt's last 

 appearance for the season, as he received forfeit 

 from Wenlock and Queen's Messenger in a couple 

 of matches that were set for the Houghton AVeek. 

 Presumably the winner of the St. Leger had gone 

 wrong, for he would have received 22 lb. over a 

 course of a mile and a half, and must surely have 

 possessed an immense chance ; but he never 

 appeared in public again after his Doncaster 

 triumph. 



A third essay in the Goodwood Cup, for which 

 he had already run twice, constituted the only 

 appearance of Favonius as a five -year -old, and 

 proved to be the last occasion upon which he ever 

 carried colours. It happened that about a month 

 prior to the decision of this event I was at New- 

 market for the July Meeting, and one morning 

 during that week I saw Favonius do a long gallop 

 in company with an un-named three-year-old filly 

 by Young Melbourne out of Hippia. She was 

 the property of Baron Rothschild, and was being 

 occasionally backed for the Goodwood Stakes, in 

 which she had been let off with 6 st. 2 lb. It 

 struck me very forcibly, in watching the gallop in 

 question, that the filly was fairly holding her stable 



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