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unfortunately for Chester, one of these takes place 

 during the same week. This is at Kempton Park, 

 where the feature is the Jubilee Handicap. As the 

 name implies, this was started in 1887, and few races 

 in the Calendar have ever so speedily made their 

 way to popularity. Good fields invariably go to the 

 post, and some notable horses have carried heavy 

 weights to victory. In the first year of the race it 

 was won by Bendigo with 9 st. 7 lbs, on his back, and 

 the fame of this achievement was surpassed next 

 season, when Minting won in a field of nineteen with 

 10 St. Amphion, one of the handsomest horses the 

 contemporary Turf has seen, sustained the character 

 of the Jubilee in 1889 by his victory wth 7 st. i lb. in 

 the saddle, a heavy weight in view of the fact that he 

 was only a three-year-old, and the race was run at the 

 beginning of May. Next year, however. The Imp, a 

 moderate animal who afterwards belonged to the Prince 

 of Wales, lowered the class of the list of winners ; but 

 it was sustained again by Euclid (3 years, 7 st. 4 lbs.), 

 Orvieto (5 years, 9 st. 5 lbs.), Avington (4 years, 

 8 St. I lb.) ; and Victor Wild, an extremely good horse 

 over this course, who won in 1895 ^^ a five-year-old 

 with 8 St. 4 lbs., repeated his victory in the ensuing 

 season with 9 st. 7 lb., and was only beaten a length 

 in 1897 with 9 St. 9 lb. 



The Manchester Cup is noteworthy for the fact 

 that Isonomy in 1880 made a great stir in the Turf 

 world by his success in a field of twenty-one, carrying 



