AS A TWO-YEAR-OLD 



way, having accumulated in stakes more than had 

 been given for him, ^2925, and, as a matter of 

 course, was worth many times his purchase money. 



1910. NEWMARKET. 



Dewhurst Plate of £300 added to a Sweepstakes of £25 each, 

 £15 ft., of which second reed. ;^I00 ; for 2 yr. olds ; entr. £3 ; 

 last 7 fur. of R.M. (74 ents. — £1352). 

 Lord Derby's King William, by William the 



Third, 8 st. 9 lb. F. Wootton o 



Mr. Fairie's Phryxus, by Persimmon, 8 st. 9 lb. D. Maher o 



Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Atmah, 8 st. 7 lb. F. Fox 3 



Mr. J. B. Joel's Lycaon, 8 st. 13 lb. - - Walter Griggs 4 

 Mr. T. Pilkington's Prince Palatine, 9 st. 5 lb. H. Jones - 



Mr. A. F. Bassett's Prince San, 8 st. 13 lb. - H. Randall 

 Lord Derby's Bridge of Allan, 8 st. 9 lb. - F. Rickaby, Jr. - 

 (Lord Derby declared to win with King William.) 

 Ii/io agst. King William, 3/1 Prince Palatine, 5/1 Phryxus, ' 

 100/12 Prince San. A dead heat, third beaten a neck. 



Before closing this chapter I should perhaps ex- 

 plain the reference to Neil Gow. Lord Rosebery's 

 son of Marco and Chelandry, after winning the 

 National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown, 

 the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Goodwood, and 

 the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, was naturally 

 regarded as a certainty for the Imperial Produce 

 Stakes at Kempton, in which he had only two 

 opponents, Sunningdale, to whom he was giving 

 17 lb., and Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Santa Fina. 

 Odds of 3 to I were freely laid on Neil Gow, but at 

 the start he not merely swerved, but turned round 



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