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difficult horse to manage, had two sequences of successes, at 

 an interval of two years, and curiously enough he was in 

 different hands during each period. When trained by Webb 

 at Newmarket he won the Lewes Handicap, the Caesarewitch, 

 and a Two-mile Plate at Hurst Park off the reel ; and two 

 years later, when under the care of Robinson, at Foxhill, 

 he secured the Goodwood Plate under 9 st, the Goodwood 

 Cup, and the Birmingham Handicap under 9 st. 5 Ibs., all 

 within the space of ten days. Between these two spells 

 of victory the horse appeared to an extent to lose his 

 form, but in the intervening year he scored one notable 

 victory, viz. when he beat The Rush and Bay Ronald in 

 the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket. In 1900 he ran once 

 only, finishing a remarkable career by an easily gained 

 success in the Gold Cup at Ascot. 



Newhaven II. won the March Stakes, the City and Sub- 

 urban, and Epsom Cup, all in the spring of 1899, and just 

 about that time he was quite at the top of the handicap 

 class. This horse, by the way, had the reputation of being a 

 great stayer in his own country, but in England all his best 

 form was shown at from a mile to a mile and a half, and 

 when he essayed to run a longer distance he made a very 

 moderate show. Indeed, Merman beat him with the greatest 

 ease in the Goodwood Cup, and yet on a mile course I have 

 no doubt that Newhaven II. would have given his country- 

 man at least a stone. 



Merman was eight years old when he won the Ascot 

 Cup, and Newhaven II. six years old when he carried the 

 top weight home successfully in the City and Suburban, and 

 I find that with the single exception of Barmecide, no other 

 aged horse except Merman has won the Goodwood Cup 

 within the last fifty years. With regard to the City and 

 Suburban, there have been five six-year-old winners besides 

 Newhaven II. in fifty years (one being the American horse 

 Parole) ; but it is an easier matter to keep short-distance 

 horses on their legs than Cup winners, and Merman's sound- 

 ness is almost proverbial. Anyhow, the fact of Merman 

 having won an Ascot Cup at eight years old, and New- 

 haven II. a City and Suburban when a year younger (and 



