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KINGSCLERE 



Again on October 6, before the Middle Plate, there 

 was a trial which resulted as under : 



SIX FURLONGS 



Orbit, 2 yrs., 7 st 1 



Spot, 3 yrs., 8 st. 4 lb. . . . . .2 



Friar's Balsam, 2 yrs., 9 st. 4 lb. . . .3 



Mon Droit, 2 yrs., 9 st. 1 1 lb. . . .4 



Ossory, 2 yrs., 8 st. 1 1 lb 5 



Won by a length ; half a length between second and third, 

 and the same between third, fourth, and fifth. 



Here Friar's Balsam was giving Orbit (who after- 

 wards won the Eclipse Stakes) 2 st. 4 lb., and Spot 

 (who had previously won the Chesterfield Cup) his 

 year and 14 lb. ' In my opinion,' to quote the trainer's 

 words, ' a very high trial indeed.' Friar's Balsam, 

 who was a really great two-year-old, won all his 

 engagements at that age. They included the New 

 Stakes at Ascot, where he beat Seabreeze (penalised) 

 — who afterwards won the Oaks and St. Leger — 

 the Hurstbourne Stakes at Stockbridge, the July 

 Stakes at Newmarket (again beating Seabreeze), 

 the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood, and the Middle 

 Park and Dewhurst, both of which, it may be 

 said, brought out uncommonly small fields. In the 

 Middle Park, Hazlehatch was second, beaten a 

 length and a half, and Seabreeze, two lengths off, 

 third. Mon Droit, a daughter of Isonomy and In 

 Bounds, the property of the trainer, won races in 

 all sorts of company, his two most distinguished 

 successes being in the Rous Memorial at Goodwood, 



