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year indeed. As a two-year-old he won the New Stakes at Ascot and the Criterion 

 Stakes at Newmarket. As a three-year-old he won the Two Thousand, Derby, 

 St. Leger, Eclipse Stakes, Princess of Wales's Stakes, and Jockey Club Stakes. No 

 wonder he was sold to M. Blanc for the highest price ever given for a thoroughbred. 

 In years later than those already mentioned, Porter won the Oaks with La Roche 

 (1900) ; the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot with Manners (1899) and Simon Dale 

 (1900); the Coronation Stakes with Lowood (1898); the Hardwicke Stakes with 

 Shaddock (1896) and Collar (1898); the Great Yorkshire Stakes with Manners 

 (1899); the Great Foal Stakes at Newmarket with Labrador (1896) and Batt 

 (1902); the Gold Cup at Ascot, the Alexandra Plate, and the Doncaster Cup, all 

 with that stout horse William the Third (1902); the Chesterfield Cup and the 

 Doncaster Cup with Calveley ( 1 899) ; and the Gold Vase with Ice Maiden (1902). 

 Writing in the " Badminton Magazine " for September, 1903, Porter was able to publish 

 a winning total of ,691,672 since he had come to Kingsclere, without counting 

 Beadsman, Musjid, or FitzRoland, whom George Manning had trained there before 

 him. The record is a fine one, and it may be hoped that it will continue on its high 

 level now that the stable has become a limited company. 



The horses trained by Porter for the King when Prince of \Vales were Calistos, 

 Counterpane, Falcon, Loyalist, Lady Peggy, Peter At hoi, Montgomerie, Huntingtower, 

 Shamrock II., Ester hazy, Derelict, Pierrette, Nandine, Melesine, Marguerite, Mrs. 

 Doddy, and Golden Maze, none of whom brought much luck to the Royal colours. 

 Counterpane (who, like Lady Peggy, was by Hermit] won the King's first race for 

 him at Sandown, but fell dead on the post in her next attempt at the finish for the 

 Stockbridge Cup. But an ample recompense for all this was obtained by the 

 purchase (made on Porter's advice) of Perdita II., a daughter of Hampton and 

 Hermione by Young Alelbourne. Her foal of 1891 was Florizel II.; two years 

 later she threw Persimmon ; and then in 1 897 came Diamond Jiibilee, with whose 

 victorious career the famous and palatial racing establishment presided over by 

 Richard Marsh at Newmarket is chiefly connected. 



At the beginning of 1902 Marsh had sixty-seven horses in training at Egerton 

 House, a total five in excess of John Porter's large establishment at the same 

 period. Born in 1852, at Stnethe, in Kent, Richard Marsh rode Temple to victory 

 in the New Stakes at Ascot in 1869. He was successful in the jumping line as 

 well, both at Croydon and Auteuil. He began training in the Newmarket district 

 in quite a modest way at Six Mile Bottom, for Mr. Hector Baltazzi. In the 



