PRINCE PALATINE 



Mr. H. G. Fenwick's b.g. by Galoping Lad — 

 Lady Melrose, 8 st. 2 lb. - - - R. Keeble 



Mr. Lionel Robinson's Delilah IL, 7 st. il lb. C. Trigg 



5/4 Prince Palatine, 5/1 Phryxus, 7/1 Meleager, 100/12 Braxted, 



lo/i St. Anton. Won by a neck, 3 lengths second and third ; 



Lady Melrose gelding dwelt badly at the start. 



The colt's sixth and last race as a two-year-old 

 was the Dewhurst Plate, in which he was burdened 

 with a 10 lb. penalty, and according to the general 

 opinion would not beat Lord Derby's King William. 

 This son of William the Third and Glasalt must be 

 set down as a particularly disappointing animal, 

 though he won a number of races, and on this 

 occasion very nearly did what was expected of him. 

 The fact doubtless was that King William, both as 

 a two-year-old and subsequently, did brilliant things 

 in home gallops which he was disinclined to repeat 

 in public. Here he was at once pitched on as 

 favourite, the only other backed in addition to 

 Prince Palatine and Phryxus being Prince San, 

 who had started the season in effective fashion, 

 having won two of his five races and been beaten 

 a short head for the third by Meleager, Phryxus 

 unplaced, for the Fulbourne Stakes at the New- 

 market First July. In the Dewhurst the penalty 

 told on Prince Palatine, who, as it struck me, ran 

 with very little dash, the race ending in a dead 

 heat between King William and Phryxus. Mr. 

 Pilkington's colt had, however, handsomely paid his 



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