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Besides St. Simon, whose prowess as a sire suggested these reflections, the 

 Duke of Portland has Donovan and Carbine standing at Welbeck. Donovan, the 

 most redoubtable racehorse of his day, provides an excellent example of the true 

 position and form a stifle-joint should have low and clearly in view, muscular and 

 well developed. By Galopin out of Mowerina, he won ,55,154 in only two years' 

 racing, scoring eighteen victories (the Derby and St. Leger among them) out of 

 twenty-one attempts, a record which is only beaten by Colonel McCalmont's 

 Isinglass, who made ,57,185, of which ,34,018 was scored when he was four years 

 and upwards. Donovan had a fine two-year-old career, and began his next season by 

 beating Pioneer, Minthe, and Enthusiast (in that order) for the Prince of Wales's 

 Stakes at Leicester 

 in April, which were 

 worth .12,000. He 

 started for the Two 

 Thousand of 1889 with 

 odds of 85 to 20 on 

 him. "It was a slow 

 muddling race," writes 

 Mr. Sydenham Dixon, 

 " and Tom Cannon 

 accomplished one of 

 the most brilliant feats 

 of all his memorable 

 career in the saddle, 

 and completely outrode 

 Barrett." So Mr. D. Baird's Enthusiast won, and Donovan lost the triple crown. 

 No mistake was made about making the running on the next occasion. John Watts 

 was put up on Turcophone to make the pace as hot as possible in the Newmarket 

 Stakes, and did it so well that Donovan won by two lengths, and the pacemaker 

 secured the ,1,000 for the second, Enthusiast being unplaced. After that Donovans 

 number went up for the Derby, the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the St. Leger, 

 the Lancashire Plate, and the Royal Stakes at Newmarket, and no horse has ever 

 won as much money in the time as he did in 1889. At the stud he grew into one 

 of the handsomest stallions in England, and in the prime of life has sired such sons 

 as Velasquez, Matchmaker, Veronese, and Tom Cringle, the first two of whom are 



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