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Sarah for £3500. I hope you will get it back for 

 me to-morrow with My Mary ? " At that time the 

 Great Yorkshire Handicap was run on the third 

 day of the Doncaster September Meeting. With- 

 out hesitation I replied that I had no doubt My 

 Mary would win, as she was so " well in," having 

 only 5 stone to carry, which was equivalent to 

 putting in Miss Elis at 5 st. 7 lb. and Miss Sarah 

 at 6 st. 2 lb. When My Mary was tried with Miss 

 Elis for the Goodwood Stakes, the latter won with 

 the greatest difficulty, giving My Mary 7 lb. I 

 remarked, however, that at the end of a mile and 

 three-quarters (the exact distance of the Great 

 Yorkshire Handicap) My Mary would have won, 

 and this made me feel great confidence that she 

 would get back Lord George's St Leger losses, and 

 probably a little more, on the following day. 



It may not be out of place or uninteresting 

 to my readers if I recite here the circumstances 

 under which My Mary came into Lord George's 

 hands. She was bred by Alderman Copeland 

 (a very good and popular sportsman) in 1842, 

 her sire being Bran by Humphrey Clinker, and 

 her dam by Oiseau, a grandson of Hamble- 

 tonian. Bran ran second to Touchstone for the 

 Doncaster St Leger of 1834, and was the sire of 

 several good horses, among them being Our Nell 

 and Meal, who ran first and second for the Oaks 

 in 1842, as previously recorded. My Mary was 

 own sister to Our Nell, and had run nine times as 



