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far he is the only moderate horse in the list, every other 

 winner of the race having distinguished himself by scoring 

 in other important races. In 1891 Nunthorpe won under 

 9 stone, inclusive of a 14-lb. penalty for having won the 

 City and Suburban, and this was another very popular 

 victory, the horse being owned by the late Colonel North, 

 a huge favourite with the cockney crowd. Following the 

 victory of Nunthorpe came that of Euclid, and though 

 Euclid was not a great horse he was a very smart performer 

 in handicaps, and as a three-year-old he won under 7 st. 4 lbs., 

 which was really a most remarkable performance. The race 

 was run in the first week of May, a month before the Derby, 

 and one may search the Calendars in vain to find any three- 

 year-old winning such a handicap at that time of year under 

 such a weight. Amphion, three years before, had won under 

 3 lbs. less, and nearly as good a performance was that of 

 Grey Leg in the City and Suburban of 1894, when 7 st. 

 was successfully carried, but it is quite exceptional for a 

 three-year-old to win any of what are known as the Spring 

 Handicaps (the Lincolnshire Handicap, City and Suburban, 

 Great Metropolitan, Chester Cup, and Jubilee Stakes) when 

 so highly handicapped. Euclid's Kempton achievement 

 remains a record. 



In 1893 Orvieto won under 9 st. 5 lbs., and here again the 

 winner was of very high class and the performance a remark- 

 able one. Orvieto, mention of whose great race with Orme 

 in the Eclipse Stakes of 1892 was made a few pages back, 

 was a Bend Or horse, and a fine weight-carrier, and he was 

 followed by another fair-class horse in Avington, who carried 

 just a reasonable weight on his four-year-old back. Then 

 came the two successive victories of Victor Wild, one of 

 those horses upon whom the public fancy settled most 

 strongly, and both of whose victories took a great deal of 

 money out of the ring. Victor Wild won in 1895 ^^^^ 1896, 

 carrying on the first occasion 8 st. 4 lbs., and in the following 

 year 9 st. 7 lbs., the weight which Bendigo had won under 

 nine years before. Victor Wild had previously won the 

 Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot, and from the age of four to six 

 he improved in a marvellous degree. Victor Wild's earliest 



