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i i i : • | 1 i i : . i GREAT TWO-YEAR-OLDS TRAIN ON. Relative to the form in England of first-class two-year olds when they raced the following season. "Raider" writes as follows in the London Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: "During the ten years from 1800 to 1809 the colta and illies that had been the best two year olds of their BMSOB all won classic races, with a single exception, and even ths does not fully represent the state of the ease. for the reason that the two bracketed together as tlie best ill the last named year were both classic winners. Furthermore, these nine won a remarkable number of classics between them. Volodyov-ski took tie Derby and lost the Leger by a neck; Sceptre took four of the five: Rock Sand the three or rhlch be was eligible: Pretty Poiiv the three for which she started; Cicero the Derby, .Tardy. bracketed with him. being three parts of a length hehnd: Flair the One Thousand: Slieve Galllon tlie 1 " Th -and. I.esbia was the solitary failure. Bavardo wen the Leger. and was unodubtedly the best of ids year: Lemberg the Derby, and Neil Row V. • T li, irand. Thus in the ten years they "on !!• fewer than seventeen cblXSieS. Mushroom ami Beaforffa are bracketed in mm. The for r wis ii .r entered for anv of the lassies, so it is slhle to sny what he might have done. One did do w.i- to beat I MB Leger winner. Prince Palatine, for the Midsummer Stakes at New-market. giving him. moreover, tin pouada As for S rorth, after winning his first race as a tw.i-year-old, be vent to pieces: but it cannot be said that be lost bis form. Belleiale is another of the exceptions at bast, she did not retain her capacity. Cragunour won the Derby: though he d;d not get it. and The Tetrarch vva- unable to run. As for Friar Marcus, rated as the liost two-year old of mil. he scarcely trained on. it is true, and his weak point is his inability to stay. Prom all of this, however, it will appear thai the owner of a really good two -year-old is extraordinarily unfortunate if he baa not a good three-year-old also."
