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Le Marechaly a good horse that afterwards won the 

 Gimcrack Stakes at York. On the day of the race 

 Elcho, one of mine, won the Metropolitan, with 

 Caractacus second, the winner at the next Epsom 

 meeting of the Derby. The Waterloo Plate I w r on 

 with Lord Coventry's colt by Mildew out of Under- 

 hand's dam ; and the Balaclava Stakes with a filly 

 of my own by Tadmor out of Fortune-teller, beating 

 fourteen others. These were the only four horses I 

 ran that day, proving my trying tackle was to be 

 relied on ; and yet BrieJc, at their respective weights, 

 was as good as mine, for we ran a dead-heat. We 

 divided the stakes, and the bets were, of course, put 

 together and divided, each taking half in the usual 

 way. 



Now if the running; was correct — though I can- 

 not for a moment accept it as having been so — it 

 would make Brick a long way the best horse of his 

 year, or perhaps of any year, and of this public form 

 never gave any proof whatever. The Gillie, we have 

 seen, was 16 lb. and a beating better than Muezzin ; 

 and Brick, allowing 2 lb. to have enabled him to win, 

 was 16 lb. better than The Gillie, which made him 

 32 lb. better than Muezzin, or a stone superior to the 

 best horse of his year. Yet he ran unplaced in the 

 Biennial Stakes at Ascot, and only beat an. animal 

 like Taje a neck at Goodwood. So in this case, as 

 in many others, the trial was the truer form ; and if 

 I did not win the race outright, it was rather from 



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