SUCCESSES WITH MY STABLE IN PAST TIMES. 99 
too numerous to mention, ran many years successfully, and 
left off as sound as on the day they were foaled. They 
ran various courses, from three furlongs to three miles 
and five furlongs, two-year-olds winning courses of three 
miles. In these they won stakes numbering considerably 
over 400 (besides others of less significance), amounting 
in the aggregate to the value, exclusive of the minor races, 
of over £100,000 sterling. 
Heats, as I have before mentioned, and long courses, in 
those days added greatly to the enormous amount of work 
horses had to do to accomplish such feats ; yet, as far as I 
know, no more were broken down than usually succumb to 
a more lenient treatment in the present day. That some 
estimate of the merits of the animals they had to meet may 
be formed, I summarize at foot a few of the races they won.} 
As to the performers, I could give a lengthy list; but I 
must be content to cite a few, and give a brief survey of their 
performances whilst with me; and I may add that after 
leaving me, their names were not again included in the list of 
winners on the flat. They were disposed of ina variety of 
ways; some by public auction, others by private contract, 
while some few were claimed out of selling races, or bought 
1 Handicaps.—Chester Cup, Cambridgeshire, Royal Hunt Cup, and Somerset 
shire Stakes, three times each; the Metropolitan, Steward’s Cup at Goodwood, 
Great Eastern Handicap, Goodwood Stakes, and Northamptonshire Stakes, twice 
each; the Portland Plate, the Czesarewitch, the Chesterfield Cup, the Steward’s 
Cup at Chester, the Doncaster and the Lincoln Handicaps, and the Newmarket, 
Lincoln, Goodwood, Doncaster, and Stockbridge Nurseries, the Shrewsbury 
Handicap, besides most of the lesser Handicaps. Among two-year-old victories may 
be mentioned the New Stakes at Ascot, and Molecombe and Lavant Stakes, and 
Mottisfont twice each ; the Findon and Ham Stakes, and Criterion, as well as the 
following weight-for-age races at three years old and upwards: the Oaks, Good- 
wood Derby (twice), Queen’s Vase at Ascot (twice), Emperor's Vase, Ascot and 
Goodwood Cups, the Two Thousand Guineas (twice), Royal Stakes, and other 
races of less importance, including the Vearling Stakes at Shrewsbury. 
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