CHAPTER X 
This brings the record down to 1876, and in this year 
Archer scored another wonderful feat and beat all records, his 
total successes amounting to 206. Poor Harry Constable 
was next on the list with but 74 wins, a great difference 
indeed ! 
In this year Skylark won half a dozen races, and a couple 
of two-year-olds brought valuable grist to the mill. These 
were Silvio, by Blair Athol out of Silverhair, and Lady Go- 
lightly, by King Tom out of Lady Coventry. The former won 
four out of his five races, and Lady Golightly won five out of 
eight. Farnese as a three-year-old became a roarer 
and was soon drafted out of the stable. Thunder, then the 
property of Mr. Clare Vyner, won the City and Suburban, 
carrying 9 stone 4 lb., the highest weight which had ever been 
borne successfully in the history of the race. 
In this year, too, came Lilian's Ebor and Rosebery's 
Cesar ewitch. 
Custance says in his book of Reminiscences, after describing 
a race in 1874 (the Ditch Mile Handicap at Newmarket) : 
" I beat Archer over the same course in somewhat the same 
way. This was at the Newmarket Craven Meeting of 1876. 
Archer was riding a hot favourite in Great Tom, belonging to 
Lord Falmouth, for the Post Sweepstakes, and I was on Wild 
Tommy. Poor Fred was very wroth about this, as he thought 
he ought to have won both races. He certainly ought to have 
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