AS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD 



was expected, and my recollection of the event is 

 that though Tracery was still galloping with con- 

 siderable freedom, Prince Palatine was doing so 

 with at least equal absence of effort, his jockey not 

 having thought of pressing him. Tracery was a 

 distinctly good animal, but I shall never believe that 

 he was the equal of Prince Palatine. I think, 

 indeed, that the market on the race showed much 

 about an accurate appreciation of the relative form 

 of the two animals. It will be perceived that Prince 

 Palatine and Stedfast were here meeting for the 

 fourth time, and having regard to the 7 lb. penalty 

 which Mr. Pilkington's horse carried when they first 

 encountered each other in the Kingsclere Stakes at 

 Newbury, no possible doubt can be felt that Prince 

 Palatine was distinctly the better of the two, making 

 due allowance for Stedfast having been below his 

 true form in the Jockey Club Stakes when Prince 

 Palatine gave him 13 lb. and beat him. 



191 3. ASCOT. 



Gold Cup value £500, with £3500 in specie, added to a Sweep- 

 stakes of £20 each, h. ft., of which second reed. £700 and 

 third £300 ; for entire colts and fillies, 3 yr. olds and 

 upwards ; 2| m., starting at the Cup Post and going once 

 round. {56 ents. — £3620.) 



Mr. T. Pilkington's Prince Palatine, by 



Persimmon, 5 yrs., 9 st. 4 lb. - - - W. Saxby I 



Lord Derby's Stedfast, 5 yrs., 9 st. 4 lb. - F. Wootton 2 



Mr. Fairie's Aleppo, 4 yrs., 9 st. - - D. Maher 3 



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