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Sabinus, running a dead-heat with Sterling for the 

 second place, he ought to have won very easily, 

 having at least a stone in hand at the finish, but was 

 badly ridden. 



Hobbie Noble s trial has been fully described in the 

 chapter headed 'A Trial for Mr. Merry.' I may say 

 briefly here that it made him 21 lb. better than Joe 

 Miller, a horse that had won that year the Chester 

 Cup and the Emperor's Yase at Ascot, beating all 

 the best horses of the day at weight for age. And 

 as this was equivalent to putting Joe Miller in the 

 Cambridgeshire at 6 st. 5 lb., nothing could be better 

 than Hobble Noble s chance on paper ; and indeed he 

 ought to have won, as I have shown, but, like 

 Allbrook, he got beat, just, as it were, to prove the 

 glorious uncertainties of racing. I have shown how 

 this disappointment came about, and it will be remem- 

 bered that I did not train this horse, but merely tried 

 him, and tried him satisfactorily, for the race. 



Weatherbound 's trial was to all appearance, if any- 

 thing, better than the two just given. For she could 

 and did beat Didcibella at even weights, and Dulei- 

 bella had just won the Cesarewitch easier than it was 

 ever won before or has been since. Moreover she 

 showed she could give 2 st. to Sutherland, the winner 

 of the Royal Stakes, and second to Cape Flyaway for 

 the Doncaster Stakes, and beating St. Albans, the 

 winner of the St. Leger, at 10 lb. If the running of 

 the latter were correct, it would go to show that to 



