PRINCE PALATINE 



guished, that universal agreement as to the rank 

 of recent Leger winners is not to be expected. 

 They, of course, differ vastly in capacity ; thus one 

 could only speculate vaguely on the amount of 

 weight that Ormonde would have been able to give 

 to Night Hawk had they been contemporaries. My 

 inclination would be to rank Prince Palatine with La 

 Fleche, Isinglass, Persimmon, Flying Fox, Sceptre, 

 Pretty Polly, Bayardo and Swynford. It is conceiv- 

 able that some of these would have beaten him ; I 

 think it beyond doubt that Prince Palatine would 

 most readily have beaten the majority of Leger 

 winners of the last forty years. 



The colt was to make one more essay as a three- 

 year-old, in the Kingsclere Stakes at Newbury, a 

 course which, first used in the autumn of 1906, at 

 once acquired exceptional popularity, and obtained 

 a position which few race meetings enjoy. It 

 happened that in this race Prince Palatine for the 

 first time met Lord Derby's Stedfast, with whom his 

 career was afterwards so closely associated, for they 

 were found in opposition on no fewer than four 

 occasions in events of primary importance. It is 

 necessary, therefore, to dwell at some length on 

 Lord Derby's son of Chaucer and Be Sure. 



That a good deal was thought of this colt is 

 evident from the manner in which he was entered 

 as a two-year-old, for his name is found in the New 



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