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James and Will Here, too, trainers havc made some- 

 Edwardss Trials, thing more than mere " Guesses at 

 Truth." It was across the Flat that Tiny Edwards, 

 the devoted worshipper of Sorcerer, watched from his 

 wall-eyed pony, a trial which convinced him that he 

 had five horses good enough to win the Derby, and 

 one of them that idle Mameluke, whom he had scored 

 down during the winter, when he lay rolling about in 

 the straw-yard, as not worth a brass farthing. Fleur 

 de Lis, The Colonel, and Zinganee were also put to- 

 gether by his son over the T.M.M., as the most suit- 

 able ground in its nature to get an exact line for the 

 Goodwood Cup, and after three weeks, seven days of 

 which were spent on the road, they came out the first, 

 second, and third in their okd forms to a pound. 

 Modern Trials Coopcr was never able to try Vulture 

 at Newmarket. Qy^r the T.Y.C. with anything but the 

 second-hand of his own repeater, but he " tried her 

 very high" with that, and twice over she won. Her 

 pinions- were, however, quite clipped at a mile, and she 

 could only get home fourth. Orlando — or " Sand- 

 wich," as Colonel Peel facetiously christened him for 

 a few months, after he won The Ham — was only tried 

 seven times in 1843-46. He won both his two-year- 

 old trials, giving weight to a bad lot, and gave 21 lbs. 

 successfully to Garryowen, when they were put to- 

 gether on the first of April, next year. However, 

 Ionian had the best of him at evens in their trial, at 

 the Derby distance and weights, some six weeks after; 

 while I'm-not-Aware could only manage the third 

 place with a stone less. That was the last time Ionian 

 ever worsted him, as when they were put together for 

 an Ascot Cup measure, in 1846, over the D.I., he 

 could only finish second at 2st. less. Orlando was in 

 a trying vein that April ; and as after having the mea- 

 sure of his D.M. foot taken as well by King Cob and 

 Co., he gave the eight-year-old Garryowen lolbs., and 

 beat him over that T.Y.C, at which he was once as 



