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the thirty-one horses that ran in the Cambridgeshire 

 that year, were Bend Or (winner of the Derby in 

 1880), Peter, Petro?iell, Seobell, and many ocher of our 

 fastest horses. Foxhall evidently was thus 1G or 

 18 lb. better than Iroquois, winner of that year's 

 Derby and St. Leger. For Bend Or in the 

 Cambridgeshire gave Foxhall 8 lb. for the year, 

 and received more than that beating ; and to Seobell, 

 Foxhall gave 15 lb. and 5 or 7 lb. beating. Bend Or 

 gave Iroquois 14 lb. in the Champion Stakes, and 

 Seobell met him at even weights, and both defeated 

 him easily. 



I have said nothing about Tristans performance on 

 this occasion; but I may refer to it, for many people 

 have said that he was unlucky in being beat, and that 

 Foxhall was fortunate in winning. But this opinion 

 is entirely fallacious. To see this we have only 

 to look at Tristan s running with Seobell when the 

 latter beat him at even weights easily ; and as I 

 have before shown that Foxhall was at least 19 

 to 20 lb. better than Seobell, it follows that he must 

 have been that much better than Tristan, and therefore 

 that the best horse won, and without the assistance 

 of luck, which at times is very useful and welcome to 

 us all when it comes. 



It has always been my contention, that to win a 

 Cambridgeshire you must have an animal that can 

 stay, and well too; though this is just the contrary to 

 the generally received opinion. The ' old school ' used 



