PRINCE PALATINE 



which he won might have been very largely ex- 

 tended. 



191 1. GOODWOOD. 



Gordon Stakes of £1000, of which second reed. £50, by sub- 

 scription of £21, £11 if dec. by March 28, 191 1, or £i if 

 dec. by March 29, 1910, with £102 added ; for three yr. 

 olds ; i| m. (68 ents., viz. 25 at £21, 33 at £li and lO at 

 £1— £929.) 



Mr. T. Pilkington's Prince Palatine, by 



Persimmon, 9 st. 7 lb. - 

 Mr. Fairie's Phryxus, 10 st. 

 Mr. Arthur James's Persephone, 8 st. 4 lb. 

 Lord Falmouth's Invicta, 8 st. 11 lb. 



ii/io on Phryxus, 11/4 agst. Prince Palatine, 4/1 Persephone. 

 Won by three lengths, six lengths second and third. 



The St. Lester was to show what sort of a horse 

 Prince Palatine really was. His admirers expressed 

 the utmost confidence in him, the more so as it was 

 felt that he would be precisely suited by the course ; 

 but the deceptive King William was a strong 

 favourite, notwithstanding that, critically examined, 

 he had really not done much. This statement may 

 seem odd in view of the circumstance that of the six 

 races in which he had taken part he had won four. 

 But his victories were of small significance. He 

 had beaten Phryxus in the Ascot Derby, which was 

 something, but in the Zetland Plate two very mode- 

 rate animals, Helicon and Mary the Second, had 

 only opposed him ; at Liverpool the Knowsley 



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