AS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD 



Day it was naturally imagined that very long odds 

 would be laid on him. When he was seen in the 

 paddock, however, something like consternation 

 prevailed amongst his admirers, for he was sadly 

 lacking in muscle and apparently far from being in the 

 condition essential for a gallop over a severe course 

 of two miles five furlongs, even against opponents 

 who were comparatively of small account. Odds 

 were still laid, to the amount of only 5 to 2 on ; but a 

 long way from home it was painfully evident that 

 the unfortunate Prince could be nothing like himself 

 Here once more I recur to the article I wrote 

 immediately after the event : 



" Then came the Cup, which was to provide 

 us with one more of those sensations with 

 which its history is associated. The ring did not 

 ask for anything like the 20 to i on laid when 

 Bayardo was beaten ; indeed, a disposition to field 

 was perceptible, there having been vague rumours 

 to the detriment of the 45,000-pound son of 

 Persimmon ; but it was argued that he would never 

 have been sent to the post had there been anything 

 wrong with him, and what was there to beat ? 

 With the exception of Aleppo the others had all 

 been performing with varying success in handicaps, 

 and they were taking on the winner of the Leger 

 and of two Ascot Cups, the horse who had given 

 Stedfast 13 lb. and beaten him in the Jockey Club 



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