PRINCE PALATINE 



Mr. T. Pilkington's Prince Palatine, 9 st. 12 lb. S. Donoghue 2 

 Lord Derby's Persephone, 8 st. 3 lb. - - F. Wootton 3 



Major E. Loder's Canvas-back, 9 st. i lb. - Walter Griggs 

 Lord Rosebery's Filibuster, 9 st. - - D. Maher 

 Mr. L. Brassey's St. Bruno, 8 st. 7 lb. - H. Jones 

 Mr. Sol. Joel's Sporty, 8 st. 7 lb. - - W. Higgs 

 Lord Falmouth's Mary the Second, 8 st. 3 lb. F. Rickaby 

 Capt. F. Forester's IHa, 8 st. 3 lb. - - E. Piper 



1 1/4 agst. Bannockburn, 4/1 Persephone, 6/1 Mary the Second, 

 7/1 Ilia, 8/1 Filibuster, St. Bruno and Sporty, lo/i Prince 

 Palatine, 100/7 Canvas-back. Won by a head, two lengths 

 second and third. 



Still more remarkable was his failure in the Mid- 

 summer Stakes at the Newmarket Second July. 

 That Mushroom could give him 10 lb. seemed 

 utterly preposterous, notwithstanding that Mr. T. 

 Baring's son of Common and Quick was really a 

 very good horse. He had easily won the City and 

 Suburban with 7 st., a considerable weight for a 

 three-year-old, and had followed on by beating 

 Charles O'Malley and others for the March Stakes. 

 But Prince Palatine was considered far his superior. 

 I have no doubt the true explanation is that so 

 short a distance as a mile did not enable him to 

 display his unquestionable merit. He was a slow 

 beginner. Mushroom was accustomed to jump off 

 and at once get into his stride. Prince Palatine was 

 never really balanced in this Midsummer Stakes, 

 and though he was rapidly overtaking the leader, 

 Mushroom just managed to squeeze home by half a 



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