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neither being able to catch the other horses until the 

 last few strides. 



In 1855 Sultan, as a three-year-old, carrying 7 st. 

 t> lb., won the race very easily. He had been 

 tried with Nabob two and a quarter miles at 10 lb. 

 and beat him, and it was thought that the Cesarewitch 

 as well as the Cambridgeshire would fall to him. 

 But in the long race he appears, for some reason 

 or other, to have tired after passing the Bushes, 

 when he had the best of everything in the race, but 

 was soon after beat easily. This I could never under- 

 stand, for he had speed and was tried to stay. 

 He was backed for both races before the first was run, 

 but being beat in the Cesarewitch, was driven to 

 extreme odds in the other. To show that the 

 Cesarewitch was wrong, I mav mention that in it 

 Crown Pigeon beat him at 2 st. at least one hundred 

 yards; and in the Cambridgeshire, at 1 lb. less, 

 Sultan beat his former victor as far. This I think 

 requires no further demonstration. 



The last of the giants comes Fo.vhall, who, as 

 a three-year-old, won the race in 1881, with the 

 crushing impost of \) st., the heaviest weight that 

 was ever carried to victory in it by an}' three- 

 year-old mare or gelding. Foxhall was only tried 

 once whilst I had him, when he showed himself a 

 really good horse, giving Don Fulano 7 lb. and two 

 others a lot more weight, and beating them all a mile 

 and a quarter with the greatest ease — Don Fulano by 



