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another French horse, Fille de I'Air, won the Oaks, but 

 it was explained that Phenix could not manage so long a 

 distance as a mile. No wonder then there was considerable 

 opening of eyes at Ascot when the supposed non-stayer 

 over a severe mile course came away and won in a 



canter, giving 21 lb. to Out of Bounds and beating 

 Sir Joseph and a large field. Phenix was " whitewashed," 

 but there were those who dissented from the Stewards' 

 position on the ground that two at least of the arbiters 

 had backed Paul's Cray at Epsom. 



Mr. Gretton's wonderful horse, Isonomy, in 1880 again 



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