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“The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.”
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- Source:
- The Young Duke. Book i. Chap. v.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a817e8f886db06d2d2a8506eb53fc0d840e930799bed5510b581bded963edc6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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