HANDICAPS III 



Suburban, and there can perhaps be httle harm at this 

 time of day in saying that his friends had not on that 

 occasion the least hope or desire of victory, though it 

 must be distincdy understood that in saying this no 

 sort of impHcation is made as to the integrity of those 

 concerned. They thought the race would do him 

 good, and help towards preparing him for the Jubilee 

 Handicap at Kempton Park, for which they had 

 backed him very heavily. Tom Cannon, junior, had 

 the mount at Epsom, and was put up without any 

 instructions as to how he was to ride ; he jumped off, 

 and was never headed from start to finish, backward 

 in condition as the colt was. The effect of this was 

 to earn for him a substantial penalty for the event at 

 Kempton Park. He had not been backed for a 

 shilling at Epsom, and his penalty cost him the other 

 race, for which, however, so good had his chance been 

 esteemed that he started first favourite in spite of the 

 additional 14 lbs. L'Abbesse de Jouarre, the Oaks 

 winner, won with 9 st. in 1890, and the Duke of 

 Portland's very speedy horse, Greyleg, one of the few 

 greys that have run of late years— Eastern Empress 

 was another— was successful in 1894. Whiston, who 

 went wrong in his wind and speedily sank to plating, 

 won in 1895, and Grig, a mare belonging to Mr. 

 Leopold de Rothschild, who galloped at a great pace, 

 was successful the year afterwards. 



Of the Great Eastern Handicap and the Newmarket 

 October Handicap there is nothing special to be said 



