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was the Coventry Stakes at Ascot. He was 

 unplaced. We did not run him again until the 

 autumn. On September 25 he took part in a 

 trial, the record of which reads : 



K. Cannon 

 M. Cannon 



Six Furlongs 



Lowood, 2 yrs., 7 st. 10 lb. 

 Batt, 2 yrs., 9 st. 

 Calveley, 2 yrs., 9 st. 

 Collar, 2 yrs., 9 st. . 

 Ameer, 2 yrs., 9 st. . 

 Shapfell, 2 yrs., 9 st. 



Won by two lengths ; half a length between second 

 and third ; half a length between third and fourth ; four 

 lengths between fourth and fifth. 



Lowood, by St. Serf out of Rydal, had, when 

 racing for the first time, run second to Mauchline 

 in the Gimcrack Stakes at York, and five days 

 later finished fourth to Disraeli (winner of the 

 Two Thousand Guineas the following year) in 

 the Champion Breeders' Stakes at Derby. At 

 the Houghton Meeting, at the end of October, 

 Batt, an even-money favourite, won the Criterion 

 Stakes, beating Sir Blundell Maple's Royal Foot- 

 step, who was giving him 8 lb., by a neck. Airs 

 and Graces, destined to win the Oaks, was behind 

 them. Three days later Batt won the Houghton 

 Stakes. We regarded him merely as a useful 

 sort of colt — nothing very grand. 



Batt's first engagement the following year was 



