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fortunate as to name the winner, occasionally 

 obtain wonderfully good odds. Since 1875 only 

 five favourites have won the race. On the other 

 hand, what are called " long prices " have been 

 laid against horses that have won in recent years, 

 as, for instance, 33 to i, Jongleur (1877) ; 40 to 

 I, Jester (1878) ; 30 to i, La Merveille (1879) ; 

 50 to I, Bendigo (1883); and 40 to i, Gloriation 

 (1887). Several other Cambridgeshire horses 

 might be quoted at 20 to i, and at figures a little 

 below 20. Such prices do not often attend the 

 race for the Cesarewitch, but then the winner in 

 1890 started at the odds of 28 to i ; and 

 Stoneclink (1885) was quoted while at the starting- 

 post at 100 to 3 — an excellent price, as all who 

 had the good fortune to back the horse willingly 

 acknowledged. 



As has been hinted, the Cesarewitch has been 

 notorious for the thousand and one plots that 

 have been laid to obtain a victory ; the same may 

 be said of the Cambridgeshire. Many hopes and 

 fears have been centred on the chance of winning 

 one or both of these races. Clever turfites have 

 again and again planned and schemed, only, how- 

 ever, to incur defeat. Honest owners, running on 

 the square with an honestly handicapped horse, 

 have been " done " in the end by the machinations 

 of some syndicate possessed of an animal kept for 

 the purpose. 



The Northumberland Plate, still run for at 

 Gosforth Park, the Great Ebor Handicap, and 

 the Liverpool Cups, as also the Cumberland 

 Plate, were all of them some twenty-five years 

 ago favourite betting races. They are no longer, 

 however, what they were ; but bettors have the 

 Jubilee Stakes at their service, as also such 



