AS A FOUR-YEAR-OLD 



bay colt and the chestnut were apparently in- 

 separable. 



" One thing about the Eclipse Stakes is that it 

 leaves the question as between Stedfast and Prince 

 Palatine more interesting than ever. Many people 

 will only look at actual results, without considering 

 circumstances. Prince Palatine beat Stedfast a 

 head, and those people will therefore back him to do 

 the same thing next time the two meet, inspired, 

 moreover, by the fact that last autumn, in the Kings- 

 clere Stakes at Newbury, the Prince did come out 

 some 4 lb. the better of the two. This is, of course, 

 ignoring the Coronation Cup at Epsom, when Sted- 

 fast beat the Prince, notwithstanding that the son of 

 Chaucer was ridden by Rickaby, who is obviously 

 not nearly man enough for the colt — it was quite a 

 melancholy spectacle to watch the jockey kicking 

 and scuffling when Stedfast carried him home last 

 month in the Royal Stakes at the Newbury Meeting. 

 I have not seen it noted, by the way, how precisely 

 the form of Prince Palatine and Lycaon came out. 

 In the Leger Lycaon was six lengths behind Prince 

 Palatine, and he was behind precisely the same 

 distance in the Eclipse. It is rather odd to observe 

 how often Stedfast and Prince Palatine have made 

 the same journeys to various meetings. At Ascot 

 last year Stedfast ran on the Tuesday, Prince Pala- 

 tine next day. The former won the Sussex Stakes 



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