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Stakes at Pontefract. As a three-year-old the Oaks 

 was her first and last victory. She had a neck the 

 better of the finish, starting at 20 to 1, with the favourite 

 Mr. Vyner's Menthe 9 to 4. She ran well for the 

 Hunt Cup, third to Whitelegs and the Cambridge- 

 shire winner Veracity ; this being among the com- 

 paratively few races in which one of Captain Machell's 

 good things did not come near to anticipation, Danby- 

 dale a 5 to 2 favourite being badly beaten. She 

 remained in training for a third season and part of a 

 fourth. As a four-year-old she started by taking the 

 £1000 Princess of Wales's Plate at Sandown. In the 

 Manchester Cup weighted with 8 st. 6 lb. she carried 

 8 st. 8 lb. in order that Tom Cannon might ride, and 

 earned the £2202 by three parts of a length. For the 

 Gold Vase at Ascot she was second to Sir Mortimer 

 Singer's Tyrant, a horse for whom a remunerative 

 series of coups had been successfully projected ; and 

 she beat Antibes in a match at the Newmarket First 

 July. Father Confessor, who had been second to her 

 at Manchester, beat her in the Liverpool Summer Cup, 

 the form coming out with much accuracy ; at Man- 

 chester she gave 5 lb., at Liverpool just failed to give 

 7 lb., and proof of her exceptional speed was afforded 

 when she took the Portland Plate with 9 st. As a 

 five-year-old after one failure she won the Hardwicke 

 Stakes at Ascot, her last appearance. Trappist, her 

 sire, a son of Hermit and Bunch, was one of a little 

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