ORME 



Ormc is a bay horse with a star on liis forehead, but in 

 uthei' respects free from white. He was bied in 1889 by 

 His Grace the hite Diike of Westminster, in whose hands 

 he continued to remain, and is still located at Eaton. He is 

 by Ormonde, out of Angelica, by Galopin, and stands fully 

 16 hands high. 



As a race-horse he stood far out and away from his com- 

 peers, and was decidedly one of the best of his time. He 

 commenced his racing career as a two-year-old by placing to 

 his credit the Kichmond Stakes, followed by the Prince of 

 Wales' Stake, value £2800. At Newmarket first October 

 Meeting he won the Middle Park Plate, value £2.505, when 

 he carried 9 sts. 3 lbs. At the Houghton Meeting he won the 

 Dewhurst Plate and the Home-Bied Po.st Foal Stakes. 



In 1892 he was unable to compete for the Tw-o Thousand 

 Guineas and the Derby owing to an illness which it was 

 alleged had resulted from the efleets of poison secretly admin- 

 istered to him by some unknown person. As a three-year-old 

 he won the Eclipse Stakes, value 9105 sovereigns, and the 

 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. At Newmarket he won the 

 Great Foal Stakes, the Champagne Stakes, the Limekiln 

 Stakes, and the Subscription Stakes. As a four-year-old he 

 won the Rous Memorial Stakes at Ascot, and for a second 

 time the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park, \-alue 9902 sove- 

 reigns. At Goodwood he won the Goidon Stakes, and wound 

 up a splendid racing career by lunning Childwick to three- 

 quarters of a length in the Limekiln Stakes, when giving him 

 2 sts. 5 lbs. 



At the stud he got that brilliant race-hor.se Flying Fox, who, 

 after winning the Derby, St. Leger, Two Thousand Guineas, 

 Eclipse Stakes, and other I'aces, was sold at the sale of the late 

 Duke of \Vestminster to ^I. Edmond Blanc for the record 

 price of 37,500 guineas. 



Six yearlings by him disposed of at the Eaton Sale averaged 

 3878 guineas. He is also the sire of Duke of Westminstei', 

 Orchid, Flying Lemui-, Manchuria, ^lissel Thi-ush, and Ormenus. 



