The canter is a cure for every evil.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

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.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.