4 o8 CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRIALS. 



two lengths, and the rest by two hundred yards. 

 Mr. Bathgate, Mr. Keene's representative, and myself 

 thought, from this, that he would win the Grand 

 Duke Michael Stakes, the race for which he was 

 specially tried. In it, as it turned out, Foxhall gave 

 Don Fulano 7 lb., and apparently a 21 lb. beating; 

 and the latter looked a stone better than Ishmael, 

 who was thought, from his running second to Scobell 

 in the Great Foal Stakes on the Tuesday before, 

 beating Cameliard, Thebais and Bal Gal, to be almost 

 certain to wdn ; though the French division thought 

 3Iaskelyne, who was said to be much improved, 

 would beat them both. FoxhalVs hollow victory 

 here made him look like winning the Cesarewitch, 

 which he did; and the w r ay in which he in this race 

 beat Chippendale and others, made me think well of 

 his chance for the Cambridgeshire. 



In the latter race he met the very best field that 

 ever ran for it or any other handicap. To show this, I 

 need only remark that he gave Lucy Glitters (who had 

 just run third in the St. Leger, being only beat a 

 length and three-quarters from Iroquois) 2^ st., 

 Tristan 19 lb., Come Boy 37 lb. : these the next 

 vear were about the two best four-year-olds in 

 England. Moreover he gave Wall e?istei?i and Pirmis, 

 two fairly good four-year-olds, 29 and 35 lb. respec- 

 tively ; and Etona II. 44 lb., a horse that had won a 

 Welter Handicap with 9 st. 4 lb. on him, and having 

 winners of several races behind him. Besides, in 



