" THE HEAD OF THE LIST" 



Gow. They had met the previous season in the 

 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, where Neil Gow 

 inflicted on the other his first and only defeat, and 

 Neil Gow was preferred for the classic, starting at 

 2 to i, whilst 7 to 2 could be had about Lemberg. 

 Until the number was hoisted no one could tell what 

 had happened, the general impression being that the 

 two had run a dead heat. The Judge announced that 

 Neil Gow had won a head, which he specially described 

 as short. Afterwards Lemberg ran in eight races and 

 won six of them outright, dead-heating for the seventh. 

 His victories were the Derby, the St. James's Palace 

 Stakes at Ascot once more, and then for the Eclipse 

 the accuracy of the Two Thousand form was practically 

 made manifest, the Judge being unable to separate 

 the two. Subsequently, however, Lemberg took the 

 Jockey Club Stakes of £7440, the Champion, the 

 Lowther, and the Sandown Foal Stakes. In the books 

 of reference, it may be added, Lemberg's winnings 

 as a three-year-old are given at ,£28,224, but it will be 

 understood that this is because the whole £8770 of 

 the Eclipse is reckoned instead of the ^4385 his owner 

 actually received. 



To the day of his death Mr. Fairie was convinced 

 that Maher by riding a bad race lost the Leger, which 

 was won by Lord Derby's Swynford, Lemberg third 

 a head behind Bronzino, whom he surely ought to have 

 beaten. Mr. Fairie was by no means demonstrative, 

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