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LORD GEORGE AS A LETTER- WRITER. 



ground. We have ybiir much too near together for 

 there to be a real ofood one in the lot. 



" This is my handicap :- 



"T.r.C. 



" If I am right in this, it will bring them up to 

 be as good weight for age next year as Cowl 

 and Rose of Cashmere, — which may not win the 

 Oaks, but will win a good many things. 



" I forgot exactly what was our best trial last 

 year, but I think we were always trying the old 

 horses with their heads from home, and that last 

 year we only tried half a mile instead of three- 

 quarters. I think you say, too, that the Torch 

 filly would have won half a mile ; if so, Real filly 

 and Ennui would have been about winning, carry- 

 ing 5 st. 7 lb. half a mile — i.e., just 4 st. under 

 African. The question, therefore, is, How have our 

 yearlings been with African last year and the year 

 before half a mile ? 



" They have taken no taste yet of their year- 

 lings at Bretby, but mean to do so about Christ- 



