CHAPTER XVI 
In 1882 Archer's record of wins fell ten short of his return 
for the previous year, viz., 210, and his most important 
victory was perhaps that of landing the St. Leger for Lord 
Falmouth on the despised Dutch Oven, who started at the 
remunerative price of 40 to i. A short time previously she 
had been hopelessly beaten at York, and so much controversy 
was caused that it is worth repeating an account of the race 
which was written at the time. 
" Though Jannette gave Mathew his second St. Leger 
victory, it was reserved for another mare in the same owner- 
ship to supply one of the most sensational St. Legers he or 
any other owner ever had to do with. 
" Dutch Oven, as a two-year-old, won nine of the twelve 
races she contested, among them some of the most important 
two-year-old races of the year, and she beat very many of 
the best of her time, giving promise of a brilliant three-year- 
old career. This promise, however, was not borne out in the 
earher part of it. In 1882 before the Leger she ran more or 
less badly in the Derby, the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, 
and the Great Yorkshire Stakes. 
" At Goodwood she was a bad third to such moderate 
horses as Comte Alfred and Battlefield, so altogether there 
was little hope for her in the St. Leger, where she was fated 
to meet that wonderfully speedy mare Geheimniss (on whom 
13 to 8 was laid), Shotover (winner of the Derby), and other 
good horses making up a field of fourteen. Dutch Oven 
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