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between Mr. John Hammond's St. Gatien and Sir 

 John Willoughby's Harvester (which was not run 

 off; stakes divided). In 1825 Lord Jersey's (chest- 

 nut) Middleton, and in 18^,8 Sir Gilbert Heath- 

 cote's Amato, distinouished themselves by win- 

 ning the Derby, though they never ran in public 

 before or after; and in 1864 Blair Athol made his 

 first appearance in public when he won the Derby. 



Only three foreign - bred horses have won 

 the Derby : Gladiateur, bred in France, in 

 1865 ; Kisber. bred in Hungary, 1876 ; Iroquois, 

 bred in America, in 1881. The richest Derby on 

 record, notwithstanding the recent subsidization 

 (of which mention has been made), is still that 

 which was won by Lord Lyon (^7,350) in 1866. 

 That the Derby will be won by the favourite in 

 any given year is — if we judge of the future by 

 the past — unlikely, in the proportion of about 

 I to 2, or, at the best, 2 to 3. The largest number 

 of runners for the Derby has hitherto been thirty- 

 four (in 1862, when Caractacus won, though there 

 were thirty-three in 1851, when Teddington was 

 hero of 'the Great Exhibition year'), and the 

 smallest four (in 1794, when Daedalus won). 



It is to be feared that the days of very 



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