144 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



Formosa, iS6S, Petrarch, 1876, and Ormonde, 

 1886. 



Here is a little statement regarding the Two 

 Thousand I have " rescued " from the sporting 

 journals, in the columns of some of which it was 

 recently " going the rounds." As will be seen, 

 it is not without interest, showing as it does the 

 relative performances of Two Thousand and 

 Derby winners in each of those races for the past 

 thirty-one years : 



"TheTwo Thousand winner hasstarted twenty- 

 six times in that period for the Derby. He has won 

 the latter race seven times, ran second six times, 

 third four times, and unplaced nine. The Derby 

 winner, in the same space, has competed seventeen 

 times in the Two Thousand — seven times as 

 a winner, four times second, four times third, and 

 twice unplaced. It is interesting to note that the 

 winner of the Two Thousand has succumbed in 

 the Derby to a horse he had beaten in the Two 

 Thousand on eight occasions, viz. : in 1861, 1870, 

 1872, 1873, 1877, 1881, 1883, and 1889." 



As has been often said, the race for the Guineas 

 greatly discounts the Derby. So it does. In 

 some years indeed, as in 1891, it is in the nature 

 of a rehearsal for the great event which takes 

 place on Epsom Downs, just in the same way as 

 the One Thousand frequently proves a prelimi- 

 nary canter for the Oaks, these two races 

 having been taken on thirteen occasions by the 

 same filly. Both sexes may try conclusions in 

 the Two Thousand, but in the One Thousand 

 and Oaks only fillies are eligible to compete. 



It is a notable circumstance that, beginning in 

 1814, the first race for the One Thousand fell 



