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Westminster to buy her. His Grace had not, 

 however, made up his mind to do so when the 

 mare was ready to go back home; but a few 

 weeks later he sent Chapman to Malton to 

 examine and report upon her. Eventually the 

 Duke decided to buy, but made the stipulation 

 with Snarry that the price should not be dis- 

 closed. It was not until after Ormonde had won 

 the St. Leger Chapman learned that the Duke 

 gave for Lily Agnes ;t2500, and two free sub- 

 scriptions to Bend Or, whose fee was then 200 

 guineas. The Duke afterwards bought Lizzie 

 Agnes, sister to Lily Agnes and dam of Orwell. 



When Lily Agnes became the property of the 

 Duke she was already the dam of Narcissus and 

 Eastern Lily, both by Speculum, and both 

 devoid of racing value. To the mating with 

 Doncaster in 1880 she produced the colt Ros- 

 sington, who, having also failed to win a race, 

 went to America. In 1881 the mare was again 

 put to Doncaster, and this time the produce was 

 the filly Farewell, who, as already recorded, was 

 successful in the One Thousand Guineas. 



A practice frequently adopted at the Eaton 

 Stud was that of mating a mare who had thrown 

 a good foal to a given sire with the best son of 

 that sire. This course was adopted with Lily 

 Agnes in 1882, though it cannot have been 

 resorted to in her case because of the merits of 

 Rossington and Farewell, for they were but 



