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but had beaten the flymg Bus3'body (another of Lord 

 Fahnouth's stud) m the Dewhurst Plate — a great per- 

 formance indeed, though Busybody had 3 lb. the worst 

 of the weights, and that equalised the neck beating. Pre- 

 sumably Sir John had ascertained that Queen Adelaide 

 was better than Harvester, and there seemed confirmation 

 of this in the knowledge that Busybody was better than 

 her ex-stable companion also. ' On form,' therefore. Har- 

 vester could have no sort of chance in the Derby, and, as 

 a matter of fact, Queen Adelaide was a warm favourite 

 at 5 to 2. It was confidently expected that a fourth filly 

 w^ould be added to the list of winners. Harvester was 

 backed at 100 to 7, or at least 100 to 7 was offered against 

 him ; but the ' form ' was woefully upset, for Harvester 

 and St. Gatien ran a dead heat, beating the mare two 

 lengths — a most unexpected result. St. Gatien had suf- 

 fered from sore shins shortly before the race, but that 

 the gallop did him no harm is shown by the fact that he 

 went on to Ascot and gave a taste of his quality by 

 beating that good mare Corrie Eoy in a canter for the 

 Gold Vase, with much the worst of the weights, Tristan 

 behind the pair, a bad third. 



The relative value of Harvester and St. Gatien was 

 here to be readily gauged through Tristan. This horse 

 was beaten on Tuesday, and again on Thursday, in the 

 Gold Cup, by St. Simon ; so that on Friday — the Cup 

 course at Ascot is a terribly tiring journey — he must 

 certainly have been far from fresh, probably a good deal 

 behind his true form ; but in the Hardwicke Stakes on 

 that day he came out again. Harvester opposed him, and 

 the Derby dead-heater was beaten easily by half a dozen 

 lengths, a colt called Waterford separating the two. 

 Harvester's subsequent performances were extremely 



