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sort of public interest, and is only referred to here, 

 as it were, historically. The severance was the 

 cause of sincere regret to Porter, who is honoured 

 with the assurance on the part of his Royal Highness 

 and also by that of the late Baron de Hirsch that 

 the regret was mutual. To sum up simply, owners 

 and trainer separated on the most friendly terms. 



An extraordinary chapter in the history of 

 Kingsclere is embraced in the career of the son of 

 Ormonde and Angelica, the sensational Orme. He 

 ran half-a-dozen times as a two-year-old in 1891, 

 and was beaten but once. He blossomed rather 

 late, at Goodwood, at the end of July, when, his 

 reputation as a flyer having preceded him, odds of 

 5 to 4 were laid on him for the Richmond Stakes, 

 which he won from Flyaway by three parts of a 

 length. At the same meeting the already popular 

 son of his father won the rich Prince of Wales's 

 Stakes (85 to 40 on) with Dunure, a length off, 

 second. Then came a defeat, by Signorina (4 yrs.) 

 in the Lancashire Plate at Manchester. They 

 took 7 to 4 about him. The difference between him 

 and the victress was half a length, while Martagon, 

 another four-year-old, finished a head behind, third. 

 He won the Middle Park Plate by a couple of 

 lengths, from El Diablo ; and, roughly speaking, 

 repeated that performance in the Dewhurst Plate, 

 inasmuch as Colonel North's colt was again second. 

 Finally, at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, 

 Orme wound up his two-year-old career by canter- 

 ing home winner of the Home-bred Foal Stakes, 



