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and the Great Breeders' Convivial Stakes at York. 

 Orbit, one of the ' Ors ' bred by the Duke of 

 Westminster, a son of Bend Or and Fair Alice, won 

 a couple of nursery handicaps, and the Doveridge 

 Stakes at Derby. This last was his most note- 

 worthy performance, although the company was not 

 very gay. Ossory, a brother of Ormonde, ran once 

 and won. That solitary performance was, however, 

 the Criterion Stakes at the Newmarket Houghton 

 Meeting. His home reputation and the prestige of 

 the stable combined to make him a hot favourite — 

 they laid 2 to 1 on him — which position he justified 

 by beating the French filly by three-quarters of a 

 length, Johnny Morgan finishing an indifferent 

 third. The best performance of Spot (by Springfield 

 out of Dot) has been mentioned in relation to the 

 trial prior to the Middle Park Plate. 



Savile (3 yrs., by Hampton out of Lilian), one of 

 the Duke of Westminster's, won the Dee Stakes at 

 Chester, the Knowsley Dinner Stakes at Liverpool, 

 and the Goodwood Cup, after a dead-heat with 

 St. Michael. In the deciding heat, when they laid 

 6 to 5 on Savile, the latter won by three-quarters 

 of a length. ' Follow Kingsclere ' would not have 

 been a bad tip for the ducal meeting of 1887, when 

 the stable was in wonderful form, as the following 

 list will show : Stewards' Cup, Upset ; Richmond 

 Stakes, Friar's Balsam ; Chesterfield Cup, Spot ; 

 Rous Memorial, Mon Droit ; Goodwood Cup, 

 Savile ; and the Molecomb, Friar's Balsam (w.o.). 

 The three cups, and the three biggest two-year-old 



