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I 1 j | I ! TETRATEMAS STAYING IN QUESTION LONDON. Kngland. Febrnarj 1 The Epsom Derby winter favorite. Tetrateasa, i- under suspicion a- a non stayer, chiefly on account of hi- dam. Scotch tJlft. which wa- a i r stayer, though a- fast a- i- Terra tenia. She won her fir-t three race- a- a two year-old in 1000. Hut -he failed in her sub-eipicnt races, and was barely up to five-ei-hth- in Bead o pany. ot Term t eases -ire The Tetrareh, then- seems no reason to doubt that he would have stayed but ■ for hi- unf. ruinate nick of overreaching at speed, la fault that broke him down and probably lost him 1 tin- Bpsom Derby of hi- year. The Tetrareh. or "the Spotted Wonder." a- he wa- called in Kngland. had for hi- -in- that beautiful French -bred gray Kid iHerode. which aerer ran in the land of hi- birth until he wa- a three -year-old, but -bowed at that age he could -lay by -ecui iug the Prix de Nova arer one mile and serea-eighths at Paris, in addition Ul Which he wa- second in the Prix Koyal Oak lone and seven -eighths miles, and beaten a Beck, on weight-far age term-, to patriae in the Prix da President de la Bepubilqne ■ mile and four and a half luilong-l Qaerido had earlier that season easily wiui the Chester Cup. and Rrso proved three quartern of a length too good over one mile and -even eighth- anil on ■ v « • 1 1 term- far Maiuti -ii«»n. the French Derby victor of the previous year.
