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also the Champion Stakes of 2,496/. and the Second 

 Great Challenge Stakes of 1,117/., and third with 9 st. 

 to Out of Bounds, 7 st. 12 lbs., and Knight of Burley, 

 7 St. 2 lbs., for a free handicap sweepstakes at New- 

 market Houghton, winning altogether 17,947/. in a little 

 over four months), Saint-Jean (tliree years), Salteador 

 (three years, unplaced for the St. Leger), Seville (two 

 years, by Don Carlos ; unplaced for the Middle Park 

 Plate and for the Criterion), Sirene (two years ; beaten 

 by her only opponent, Petal, for the Stetchworth Stakes 

 at Newmarket July, &c.). Sutler (four years, won the 

 Rufford Abbey Stakes Handicap of 145/. at Doncaster 

 and the Stewards' Cup Handicap of 116/. at Liverpool), 

 Tafna (two years, won \ the Lincoln Cup of 222/. by 

 running a dead heat witli Macaria, unplaced for the 

 Brocklesby Stakes at Lincoln, third to Prestonpans and 

 Illuminata for the Alexandra Stakes at Harpenden, 

 and unplaced for the Cheveley Stakes at Newmarket 

 Houghton), Ultima (three years, unplaced for the Coro- 

 nation Stakes at Ascot), Verneuil (five years, unplaced 

 for the Ascot Cup), Volte-face (two years), and Venise 

 (three years) — some threescore, or thereabouts, in 

 number, whereof those whose names ai'e printed in 

 italics won more or less reputation at some time or 

 other in their own country or in England. 



Rayon d'Or of course stands out conspicuously 

 beyond all his compatriots, with his brilliant series of 

 successes in the latter half of the season, after losing 

 tlie Derby and Two Thousand, which he certainly 

 ought to have won. But he and his owner. Count F. 

 de Lagrange, were undoubtedly indebted for their very 

 material triumph to the misfortune of Lord Falmouth's 

 Wheel of Fortune, who broke down, or something very 

 like it, in the Great Yorkshire Stakes, havinij^ been 



