A GREAT YEAR 



her to his brother, for whom she did such wonderful 

 service in the paddocks. She never ran as a three- 

 year-old, probably because it was not thought worth 

 while to keep her in training. I am told that she was 

 mean in appearance, in fact she would have been 

 considered by many breeders out of place amongst 

 her new owner's choice selection of mares. And as 

 one more example of the glorious uncertainty of the 

 Turf she did vastly better than any of the others. 

 Truly one never knows ! 



Loved One, the property of Mr. Manton, as the 

 Dowager Duchess of Montrose chose to be called, 

 was always there or thereabouts as a two-year-old. 

 Coming slowly to hand he waited till the Newmarket 

 First October Meeting (1885), when he ran Prince 

 SoltykofFs Mephisto, on whom 3 to 1 was laid, to a 

 length for the Boscawen Stakes, and in the Clearwell 

 he finished third, beaten just a length by the Duke of 

 Portland's subsequent Oaks winner Miss Jummy, the 

 favourite, Lord Bradford's Martinet, intervening. 

 Loved One took the Cheveley Stakes from a French 

 colt, M. Lupin's Phcebus, and then showed the extent 

 to which he had come on by beating Mephisto three 

 lengths for the Home Bred Foal Post Stakes at the 

 Houghton Meeting. As a three-year-old he led off 

 by cantering away with the Wokingham, the verdict 

 being six lengths. That was his last success, for he 

 was beaten in the Stewards' Handicap by Crafton and 



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