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horse before Lewes — assuming, as we may, that 

 the horse had been beaten for want of preparation in 

 his former races — but had tried and found him a 

 good horse almost as soon as he arrived at his 

 new training-quarters. We cannot, therefore, in 

 this direction discover how the improvement came 

 about. 



Some curious incidents in the management and 

 running of Weaihergage may be briefly noticed. He 

 first wins £35 in heats, then in a gentleman-rider's 

 race Mr. Parr himself steers his favourite to 

 victory ; rather hard work for a three-year-old that 

 had so many and such great things set him to 

 accomplish. After being tried at home, Mr. Jones 

 of Prestbury tries him for the Goodwood Stakes, 

 which he wins. He is then immediately despatched 

 to Lichfield, to York, and Derby, where he suffers 

 defeat in the first four races, and, as a kind of set-off 

 to this disappointment, wins the two last, both on the 

 same day — one of them a mile-and-a-half race of the 

 value £179 ; the other the Innkeepers' Plate of £50, 

 two miles. After travelling nearly half over the British 

 Isles in search of £50 plates to run for, and horses to 

 try him with for the Cesarewitch — a service ultimately 

 effectually done for him by Joe Miller — he triumphs 

 in the dual victory, and, glutton-like, finishes up the 

 season by winning his best race with Charles Marlow 

 on his back, in the Audley End Stakes at Newmarket, 

 giving Black Doctor his year and 7 lb., and a lot of 



