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race were it not that it was understood his temper in 

 all probability prevented him from doing so. He ran 

 well for the Champagne, indeed, starting at 5 to 4 and 

 finishing third to Mr. Willie Low's Mark For'ard and 

 Mr. Douglas Baird's Musa, the filly who won the Oaks 

 next season. Mark For'ard won by three parts of a 

 length, Desmond a neck behind the second. He 

 started for the Dewhurst, but as the phrase runs, had 

 nothing to do with the finish, the race going to 

 Frontier ridden by Morny Cannon, who beat Sloan 

 on Caiman, the latter a hot favourite 1 1 to 8 on. 



As a three-year-old Desmond's contemporary, Flying 

 Fox, stood continually in the way. Desmond's reputa- 

 tion was, however, by this time almost destroyed, a 

 remark which seems justified when it is noted that odds 

 of 40 to 1 were laid against him for the Two Thousand 

 Guineas. The idea was then conceived of giving the 

 colt an easy task to encourage him, sending him for a 

 race in which he would have little to do. A Welter 

 Handicap at Newmarket was selected. This time he 

 was ridden by Sloan and started at even money, but he 

 finished in the ruck. For the Derby he was a hopeless 

 outsider, Flying Fox a 5 to 2 on chance. At Ascot 

 he tried his luck in the Rous Memorial. This was 

 another of the duels which frequently took place 

 between Sloan and Morny Cannon, and here the 

 English jockey had the better of it. Odds of 5 to 4 

 were laid on Dominie II., who was beaten by Champ de 



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