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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



together in a perfect unison. To the grand stifle, well-marked and very straight 

 hind leg, well-let-down, long, and well-placed humerus, good shoulder, short back, 

 deep brisket, well-put-on neck, handsome head, and fine, steady-looking eye, the 

 only possible improvement would be a very slight addition to the length of 

 quarter. The first of his get are entered for the Derby of 1904 by his sporting 

 French purchaser, M. Blanc. It is rare indeed that good blood has shown its 

 value in so direct a line of magnificent successors. 



Sainfoin (by Springfield out of Sanda) was bought as a Hampton Court yearling 



By permission of" Country Life." 



" La Flhhe," with filly by "Morion." 



by Porter for himself and Sir Robert Jardine at 550 guineas. After he had only 

 run once as a two-year-old and once as a three-year-old (winning both races), Sir 

 James Miller offered .6,000 and half the Derby Stakes if he won. At Epsom he 

 did win, beating Lc Nord by three-quarters of a length, Surefoot and Orwell being 

 behind them. S^^refoot he beat again in the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot, which 

 were won by that fine horse Amphion. Baron Hirsch joined Porter's stable in 1889, 

 and two years afterwards came Common's year. The big son of Isonomy and This'le 

 never ran as a two-year-old, for he wanted all the time he could get to be trained 



