AS A TWO-YEAR-OLD 



think they would be particularly instructive. The 

 stable sheltered no other good horse, and I am 

 rather puzzled, indeed, to guess how the form was 

 estimated. Everyone could see, however, that 

 Prince Palatine was quite out of the common, and 

 he was engaged with what on the whole must be 

 recognised as much discretion, put into a certain 

 number of the chief two-year-old events, as also 

 into a few minor races in case he did not fulfil his 

 promise. Thus we find him in the Surbiton Plate 

 of ;^200 at Hurst Park, and in a ^500 race at 

 Manchester. At Ascot he was in the Coventry 

 and a Biennial, but omitted from the New Stakes, 

 and at Newmarket in the autumn he was left out of 

 the Middle Park Plate, but put into the Dewhurst. 



The first race for which he could have run, if, that 

 is to say, his engagements had been observed, was 

 the Sandown Park Stud Produce Stakes in the April 

 of 1909, but he missed this and two or three others, 

 being kept in reserve for the Royal meeting. He 

 passed over the Coventry, making his first appear- 

 ance later on the Tuesday afternoon in the Biennial. 

 There was a strong favourite here in Mr. S. B. 

 Joel's St. Nat, a son of St. Denis and Nathalie, 

 who had given proofs of his capacity and likewise 

 benefited by his experience. St. Nat had been 

 beaten a short head for the Sandown Park Stud 

 Produce Stakes just mentioned, and he had won 



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