82 KINGSCLERE 



ONE MILE 



Incendiary, 5 yrs., 9 st. o lb I 



Locksley, 3 yrs., 7 st. o lb 2 



Shotover, 3 yrs., 9 st. o lb 3 



Sindar, 5 yrs., 9 st. o lb. . . . .4 



Won by a neck ; a head between second, third, and fourth. 



Shotover won the Two Thousand in a canter ; 

 beating Marden and Quicklime. She started at 10 

 to 1. In the One Thousand she was beaten a neck 

 by St. Marguerite, with Nelly third. Although she 

 had won the Two Thousand so easily, she was so 

 delicate that ' all was out,' and she needed a longer 

 interval of rest than would have been required by a 

 mare of even average stamina to enable her to keep 

 fit for the fillies' race two days after. As a matter 

 of fact, she had not recovered from the effects of the 

 first gallop, albeit she had not been called upon for 

 anything like a severe effort, and that accounted 

 for the defeat in the second. But she beat 

 Quicklime again in the Derby, for which Bruce 

 was a hot favourite. She won the Ascot Derby, 

 and, after a walk-over at the same meeting, there 

 was her engagement in the St. Leger to re-awaken 

 the anxiety of the trainer and the speculations of 

 his sleepless critics. That race, from a public as 

 well as from the stable point of view, was fraught 

 with unusual interest. As it happened, Kingsclere 

 was left at the last moment without a jockey for 

 either Geheimniss or Shotover. It had all along 

 been expected that Archer, who had been regularly 



