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tion to have lived through his wasting illness and 

 done the amount of big work which he accomplished. 

 He was much better at four than he had been 

 at three years old, and that no doubt led the talent 

 astray in their calculations, when they put him and 

 La Fleche together. In spite of his disasters and 

 the time he lost through illness, Orme's winnings 

 in Stakes amounted to 32,726/. 



Without going into particulars, it may be men- 

 tioned that Watercress won 4,106/. as a three-year- 

 old. And to complete this part of the running 

 record, Whipper In, a most useful horse in his way, 

 together with Ormuz, proved trustworthy servants 

 at Kingsclere for their period, especially in trials. 

 The gross stable winnings in 1892 amounted to 



52,245^ 



Of the two-year olds in 1893 tne on ly P a i r worth 

 naming are Matchbox and Bullingdon. Matchbox 

 (by St. Simon out of Match Girl) ran in the 

 National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown, the 

 day after Orme had won the Eclipse, when of course 

 the stable filled the popular imagination. Although 

 he was backward in condition, and the ' want of 

 work ' was obvious enough, they made him second 

 favourite. The race was of little account any way, 

 as Delphos won by six lengths, and there were three 

 lengths between Glare, who was second, and Match- 

 box. He brought off a big thing at the Kempton 

 Park October meeting when he beat Son o' Mine 

 by a neck in the Great Breeders' Produce Stakes of 

 5,000 sovs., Silver finishing a bad third. Then he 



