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Newmarket First October, and this must have 

 encouraged Marsh to give him plenty of time. 

 Accordingly nothing was seen of him in the 

 following season until Ascot, where he brought 

 off a very useful " double," winning the last race 

 on the Thursday and the first on the Friday, the 

 combined stakes amounting to the very useful 

 sum of £2250. He earned three more brackets 

 during the season, but not in events of any very 

 great importance, whilst he gained an undeserved 

 reputation for being shifty. This was by no 

 means the case, for the colt was a thoroughly 

 generous one, but he was still weak, and physically 

 incapable of fighting out a close finish to the bitter 

 end. It would have been very easy to ruin an 

 animal of this sort by injudicious treatment, but 

 Marsh never hurried him, and reaped a full reward 

 when he came to his best as a four-year-old. At 

 that age he ran seven times and only sustained one 

 defeat, a defeat that was even more creditable than 

 many of his victories, as he carried 9 st. into fourth 

 place for the Cesarewitch. His most important 

 successes that year were gained in the Prince's 

 Handicap at Gatwick and the Manchester Cup, 

 in the last named of which a 10 lb. penalty 

 brought his weight to 8 st. 1 lb. He also secured 

 the Goodwood Cup, but, in that race, had only 

 the very moderate Thessalian to beat. These 

 constant long gallops affected the suspensory 

 ligaments of both fore -legs, and Marsh had a 

 terrible amount of trouble with his preparation 

 for the Ascot Cup of the following season. To 

 add to his difficulties, the ground was even harder 

 than usual, so that it was impossible to do much 

 with him, and he was not nearly fit. Under these 

 circumstances he ran a very great race, for, though 

 Love Wisely had won some distance from home, 



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