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October Meeting, when he defeated Spur Royal, the 

 favourite, by a head. He afterwards ran in the 

 Trial Plate (a selling race) at the Houghton Meeting, 

 when beaten by the aged Houndsditch, he (again 

 with a head difference, but the wrong way) added to 

 the number of the Kingsclere seconds. Chinkara, a 

 two-year-old filly by Galopin out of Raker, the joint 

 property of Lord Henry Grosvenor and Porter, was 

 sold to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales after 

 winning the Plantation Stakes at the Newmarket 

 July. Her next appearance, when she carried the 

 Royal colours, was as it proved in somewhat different 

 company. Not that the wagering foreshadowed 

 the quality of one of the dead-heaters in the Lavant 

 Stakes at Goodwood. It was the outsider, Flitters, 

 who made a dead heat of it with Omladina, about 

 whom they took 5 to 4, Chinkara (5 to 2 against) 

 finishing half a length off, next. The Stakes were 

 divided. We shall have occasion to refer to 

 Omladina again. Chinkara ran four times sub- 

 sequently, but without getting a place. There had 

 been some encouragement to the owner, Mr. W. 

 Low, and an apparent prospect of a brilliant future 

 for the mare, in one of the efforts of Garter Queen 

 (by Bend Or out of Braw Lass) as a two-year old, 

 albeit her second public appearance was disappoint- 

 ing. One might, taking Mr. Low's place, have 

 regarded her with ' one auspicious and one drooping 

 eye.' She won the Inauguration Plate for two-year- 

 olds at Lingfield by a length and a half. On the 

 strength of this promising achievement she was made 



