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a long way. This at least proved how good she was, 

 if we may take it that she was Little Harry s equal at 

 even weights, and he afterwards won the Ascot 

 Stakes, carrying 8 st. 7 lb., beating Kingston, the 

 same age, at 7 lb., and fourteen others. In the winter 

 of 1854 she w T ent a roarer ; yet in the spring of the 

 following year won the Port Stakes at Newmarket, 

 beating Acrobat. After this she gradually got worse, 

 and never was again a winner, though she ran well in 

 both the Koyal Hunt and Ascot Cups. Ultimately, 

 after running ingloriously unplaced in the Craven 

 Stakes at Goodwood in 1855, she left the exciting 

 scenes of the turf, where she had so often been 

 victorious, for rest at the stud, but proved the reverse 

 of a success. Lord Stradbrooke bought her of 

 Mr. Padwick after her last race at Goodwood for 

 £500. Had it not been for her roaring; she would 

 have fetched four times as much. She was the dam 

 of Thalestris — which, carrying a light weight, won the 

 Cesarewitch for Lord Coventry — probably the best she 

 ever bred. She died in 1869. 



Mr. Padwick owned other good horses. Amongst 

 these was Scythian, bought of Colonel Anson after 

 being beat at Goodwood, who won many races, in- 

 cluding the Chester Cup of 1855, on which Mr. Pad- 

 wick landed a good stake ; Cheval oV Industrie, Little 

 Harry, Theodora, Vaidtress, Eclipse, St. Hubert, 

 Kangaroo and Alvediston. Yellow Jack and Queens 

 Head I have already named. Of these, just as Virago 



