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good a favourite as Koyal Harry — a creature that 

 was soon running in, and failing to win, little hurdle 

 races — but Isinglass had no difficulty in disposing of 

 his rivals, though he was always a lazy horse, inclined to 

 ' make a race ' with anything— a type of animal very 

 much esteemed by experts. For the Middle Park Plate 

 there were three better and two equal favourites ; 

 but Isinglass again won, with Eavensbury — who was 

 destined to be second to him so often — occupying that 

 230sition for the first time. Two Thousand Guineas, 

 Newmarket Stakes, Derby, and St. Leger, fell to the 

 colt — whose dam had been bought out of a cart for 19Z. 

 — poor Eavensbury second in all except the Newmarket 

 Stakes, where he was third. But the hitherto invincible 

 bay always had a rooted dislike to going in front — 

 making his own running — and, as it is maintained by 

 his friends entirely from this cause, the Duke of 

 Portland's Eaeburn, with 10 lb. the best of the weights, 

 beat Isinglass a length in the Lancashire Plate. 



Meantime another ' horse of the century ' had been 

 discovered in Lord Eosebery's two-year-old son of 

 Hampton and Illuminata. He came out at Epsom in 

 the Woodcote Stakes, and achieved a victory that was 

 little expected, for it had been thought that the winner 

 of that race would not ' take much finding,' as the phrase 

 goes. Odds of 3 to 1 were laid on a filly called Glare ; 

 but the Illuminata colt won, and in due course he carried 

 off the Coventry Stakes at Ascot and the Middle Park 

 Plate. Next year the Two Thousand, Newmarket Stakes 

 and Derby fell to Ladas, as he had now been called, the 

 last victory giving rise to an extraordinary scene of ex- 

 citement when Lord Eosebery, who was Prime Minister 

 at the time, led in the winner. An extravagant estimate 



