A FAIRLY GOOD TRIAL 159 



affect his after career at the stud — but still it was 

 one which interrupted a straightforward and success- 

 ful preparation. There was a trial with a view to 

 the Derby on the 25th of April, which resulted as 

 follows : 



ONE MILE 



Le Var, 3 yrs., 9 st. 7 lb. 



Royal Corrie, 3 yrs., 8 st. 4 lb. 

 Matchmaker, 3 yrs., 9 st. 3 lb. 

 Kenney, 3 yrs., 9 st. o lb. 

 Church Parade, 3 yrs., 9 st. 7 lb. 



Won by a head ; four lengths between second and third, 

 and the others beaten off. 



This trial was accounted no more than ' fairly 

 good.' Le Var was unable to get home in the front 

 group in the Derby, and as to his subsequent career 

 in training, brief but not inglorious, there is little to 

 be added. He, carrying 8 st. 3 lb. (a pound over the 

 regulation weight), won the Princess of Wales's 

 Stakes of 10,000 sovs., worth to the victor 8,995/., 

 at the Newmarket First July Meeting, by a length 

 from Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Utica, 3 yrs., 8 st. 

 7 lb., Lord Ellesmere's None the Wiser, 4 yrs., 9st. 

 81b., a neck behind, third ; Sir Visto, with 9 st. 5 lb. 

 on his back, was in the race, but left off ' nowhere/ 

 Le Var broke down in the Eclipse Stakes at 

 Sandown Park (won by Le Justicier), and was after- 

 wards sold to go to the stud. 



Unusual interest attaches to Omladina, by Royal 

 Hampton out of Geheimniss, ' the best two-year-old 

 •filly of her year.' Her dam, as we have had occasion 



