FAMOUS RACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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little raced as a two-year-old, according to the doctrines Porter has preached and 



practised nearly all his life. He won in bets and stakes upwards of i 10, ooo for 



his owner, including the Cambridgeshire (3 yrs., 731. lib.), the Gold Vase and the 



Gold Cup at Ascot, the Goodwood Cup, the Great Ebor Handicap, the Newmarket 



Derby, the Manchester Cup (giving The Abbot 42lb.), and another Gold Cup at 



Ascot to close his wonderful career. Mr. John Gretton and Lord Stamford then 



sent their horses to Kingsclere, and it should be noted that Lord Alington had 



sent Beaudesert (who had a bowed tendon) soon afterwards. Lord Stamford began 



well with Geheimniss, which he bought from Tom Cannon in 1881 for .2,000. 



She was one of the fastest fillies at six furlongs ever known, won the Oaks, 



and was second for the 



Leger. About this time 



the Kingsclere owners 



were Lord Alington, Sir 



Frederick Johnstone, the 



Uuke of Westminster, 



Lord Stamford, and 



Mr. John Gretton, and 



Porter's resources were 1 



taxed to the utmost. 



Luckily, besides 6V. 



Blaisc and Shotover, 



there was a trustworthy 



trial horse in Whipper-in, 



and Shotover s victories 



in the Two Thousand and Derby were the beginning of a splendid succession 



which Porter was able to achieve for the late Duke of Westminster. 



The Derby trial of St. Blaise was no doubt considered interesting enough for 

 His Majesty, then Prince of Wales, to see on his first visit to Kingsclere, because on 

 the 1 2th of April he had been tried over a mile with the following result, as given in 

 John Porter's "Kingsclere," edited by Byron Webber: 



Newmarket. Craven Meeting, 1902. 



Whipper-in, 4 yrs., 751. i3lb. 

 St. /aise, 3 yrs., 8st. I3lb. 

 Incendiary, 6 yrs., 8st. I3lb. 



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Won by a length and a half, six lengths between second and third. 



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