4 o 4 CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRIALS. 



of horses engaged for the Cambridgeshire Stakes in 

 six different }-ears ; and are the more important because 

 whilst in four instances the individual horse tried won, 

 in the other two our expectations of victory were 

 proved to have been held with at least fair warrant. 



I will give them without respect to chronological 

 order. The first I shall take is the trial of Allbrook, 

 the only horse that was beat of the five that I trained 

 for the race. The following were the horses and 

 Aveights in the trial : 



Allbrook, 5 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . . .1 



' Our Mary Ann, 5 yrs., 6 st. 7 lb. . .2 



C'edric the Saxon, 3 yrs., 6 st. 7 lb. .3 



Ely Dorado, 4 yrs., 6 st. . . . .4 



Distance 1 mile and 240 yards. Won by two lengths; 

 two lengths and six lengths separating the other two. 

 This would certainly make Allbrook 2 st. 3 or 4 lb. 

 better than Our Mary Ann, who had run third for 

 the Chester Cup that year, carrying 7 st. 5 lb., and 

 won it in 1870 ; and 3 st. better than Ely Dorado, 

 which horse we had borrowed of Mr. Cartwright to 

 try with, and won the Cambridgeshire Trial Plate 

 the day before the event with 7 st. 1 lb., beating 

 thirteen others. After this race it looked, in turf 

 parlance, a good thing for Allbrook, for it was like 

 putting Ely Dorado in as a four-year-old at 3 st. 9 lb., 

 and Our Mary Ann as a five-year-old at 4 st, 4 lb. 

 And the race itself confirmed this estimate in every 

 particular ; for though our horse was beat a head by 



