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when Match Maker unfortunately broke down at 

 the bend. 



Grey Leg became rather uncertain in 1895. 

 Over his own distance he had been one of the fastest 

 horses in England the season before. But they do 

 not always run on true, and as a four-year-old his 

 character for trustworthiness was somewhat impaired. 

 He credited Kingsclere with three seconds and a 

 third, and yet in the interim picked up a couple of 

 races on one day at Ascot amounting in value to 

 1,070/. The two-year-olds, exclusive of Omladina, 

 which included Labrador, Campion, Attainment, 

 Rampion, Piety, Helm, and for a time Meli Melo, 

 turned out much better than had been anticipated, 

 and won (chiefly for the Duke of Westminster, the 

 owner of the best of them) a handsome sum in stakes. 

 Mr. W. Low, it is gratifying to have to state, had 

 a remarkably good two-year-old in the colt by 

 Galopin out of Hall Mark, who credited him with 

 several Nursery Handicaps, being one of those 

 useful members who keep on winning, penalties 

 notwithstanding. We mentioned the amount won 

 by the stable in stakes during 1895 at tne outset of 

 the review of the season. 



It occurs to John Porter in this place, having 

 run through the record of the years, to say a deeply 

 grateful word about his patrons, of the pleasant 

 relations he has always had with them — with rare, 

 extremely rare, exceptions — and the many years they 

 have been connected with the stable. Off and on 

 he has trained for Sir Frederick Johnstone for 

 something like thirty years. Mr. John Gretton has 



