158 TRIALS. 
sufficient, even if other proofs were not forthcoming, to 
silence those so ready to impute evil motives to others. 
But what after all, it may be asked, was there so very 
different in Lady Elizabeth's running to that of hundreds of 
others of which nothing is heard afterwards? The reader 
who has done me the honour to follow me so far, will have 
read of instances as confounding, which have been adduced 
for the purpose of illustrating other points in connection with 
the racehorse. But a few more may be given. 
Look at Green Sleeves, who as a two-year-old was the only 
animal that ever beat Lady Elizabeth. She was, if possible, 
worse than her opponent at three years old; and had she 
not been beaten for the One Thousand, would have had 
as good a right to favouritism for any race as Lady Eliza- 
beth herself. The Maid of Orleans was another example of 
a mare that, excellent as a two-year-old, could beat nothing 
afterwards. Then for an instance of later running upsetting 
the earlier in an exactly opposite way, we have Formosa. 
At two years old she only won three races out of nine, 
being beaten by a mare (Europa) that had been beaten 
at Goodwood by Banditto; but as a three-year-old com- 
pletely turned the tables on those that had beaten her before 
—winning the One Thousand, the Oaks, and the St. Leger, 
and running a dead heat for the Two Thotisand. After 
such victories as a three-year-old, can her earlier perform- 
ances be said to be a whit more explicable than the 
running of the other mares whose best form was their 
earliest form? 
Take another case; that of Macgregor, who after winning 
the Two Thousand, started for the Derby at nine to four (as 
he had a right to start, if any horse be entitled to such a 
price). He was not placed, and so far as I recollect, 
