HENRY SAVILE 



foaled at the RufFord Abbey Stud in the same 

 season, that of 1869. Modena turned out one foot 

 to such an extent that it almost amounted to a 

 deformity, and her owner took such a dishke to her 

 upon this account that he leased her to Lord 

 Wilton for her racing career. As was the 

 almost invariable custom in those days, Mr. Savile's 

 yearlings were tried over a distance of about three 

 and a half furlongs, a few days prior to Christmas, 

 and Cremorne, who was by the little Sweetmeat 

 horse, Parmesan, out of Rigolboche, gave an early 

 taste of his quality by coming right away by 

 himself He was not tried again until the Craven 

 Week in the following season, when he, Lilian, and 

 three others were asked a question by the veteran 

 Reindeer. This everlasting gelding, whose career 

 was a very remarkable one, was then thirteen years 

 old, but had shown himself to be in form by win- 

 ning races at Lincoln, Nottingham, and Croxton 

 Park ; nevertheless, in receipt of 7 lb. over five 

 furlongs, Cremorne beat him very easily by a 

 couple of lengths, Lilian finishing some twenty 

 lengths behind the trial horse. This fully opened 

 Gilbert's eyes to the fact that there had been no 

 mistake in the rough -up amongst the yearhngs, 

 and that he possessed a gem of the first water. 

 Accordingly when Cremorne made his first public 

 appearance — in the Newmarket Two -Year -Old 

 Plate at the Second Spring INIeeting — he was 

 backed down to 7 to 4 in a field of twenty, and 

 won by two lengths. His next engagement was 

 in the Woodcote Stakes, and, to make assurance 

 doubly sure, the week prior to the Epsom Meeting 

 he was again galloped with Reindeer, this time at 

 even weights, and beat him as he liked by four 

 lengths. After carrying off the Woodcote, he 

 secured a couple of stakes at Ascot, but had a 



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