176 THE GOODWOOD STABLE IN 1845. 



she ran nearly to the top of Trundle Hill before 

 Kitchener could stop her. It will be observed that 

 in this race six of the twenty-three starters were 

 supplied by the Goodwood stable — viz., Lothario, 

 John o' Gaunt, Naworth, Coal-black Rose, Laird 

 o' Cockpen, and Miss Elis, whom Kitchener rode 

 in a 7 -lb. saddle. But it is also worthy of remark, 

 in these days when there are no six -year-old and 

 aged horses in training, and when five-year-olds 

 and even four-year-olds are rare, what was the 

 composition of the field that Miss Elis beat so 

 easily. Among the starters there were three aged 

 horses — John o' Gaunt, Naworth, and Ajax ; two 

 six -year -olds — Roderick and Rochester; seven 

 five-year-olds — Lothario, Aristides, Venus, Not 

 tingham. Pineapple, Wee Pet, and Europa ; four 

 four - year - olds — Morpeth, A-la-mode, Boarding- 

 school Miss, and Coal-black Rose ; and seven 

 three -year -olds — Miss Elis, The Libel, Laird o' 

 Cockpen, Pythia, ^gis, Giantess, and bay filly 

 by Stumps. Li estimating the merits of modern 

 three-year-olds like Robert the Devil, St Gatien, 

 Foxhall, and Plaisanterie, which are able to win 

 the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire with 9 stone, 

 or nearly 9 stone, on their back, I, for one, should 

 feel more certain that they were better than 

 Faugh-a-ballagh, The Baron, and Alarm, if, like 

 these last-named horses, they were capable of 

 beating large fields of old horses, such as Miss 

 Elis defeated for the Goodwood Stakes in 1845. 



