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John Dawson's second City and Suburban was Prince Batthyany's first notable 

 victory, in 1862. The success of Suburban was repeated five years later with 

 Vandevelde. These two horses, with Bel Esperanza, also scored three Lincolnshire 

 Handicaps to John's credit. Wise Man, in 1889, was his last. Typhoeus was another 

 good one he had ; and the two-year-olds that ran for the Middle Park Plate of 1867 

 would be hard to beat in any year. Besides the Prince's colt, there were Rosicrucian, 

 Lady Elisabeth, Green Sleeve, Lady Coventry, Formosa, St. Ronan, Le Sarrazin, 

 and Michael de Basco. But the bay yearling, by Vedette, from the Diss stud, which 

 the Prince purchased for 520 guineas 

 by John Dawson's advice at the 

 Middle Park sales, proved the best 

 bargain they ever made. Though 

 he lost a famous Middle Park Plate, 

 which he would have certainly won 

 had not Horse Chestnut nearly 

 knocked him off his legs in the 

 Abingclon Bottom, his two-year-old 

 career was good enough to justify his 

 trainer being very anxious to match 

 him against Prince Charlie over the 

 T. Y. C. His Derby victory was 

 an undoubted proof of his superior 

 excellence. His match that same 

 year with the five-year-old Lowlander 

 (Fordham up) again confirmed it. 



Prince Batthyuny. 



Over the last mile and a half of 

 the B. C. he smashed Craig Millar, 



winner of the St. Leger, at even weights for the Newmarket Derby. At Epsom 

 he had already beaten the winner of the Two Thousand, Camballo. Much against 

 his trainer's wishes his owner would never risk another race, and took his favourite 

 home with an untarnished shield, to be the sire of the immortal St. Simon, of 

 Galliard and Disraeli, winners of the Two Thousand, of Galcottia, who won the 

 One Thousand, of Donovan, winner of Derby and St. Leger and much more, and 

 of many another good one. He died in the Derby week of 1899, and no one 

 has since ventured to attack the strain of Blacklock. 



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