HENRY SAVILE 



very narrow squeak in the Hurstbourne Stakes at 

 Stockbridge, as Nunehani ran him to a head, and 

 Ahnoner, a second-rate Httle Beadsman colt belong- 

 ing to the Duke of Beaufort, was only a neck 

 behind the second. Of course Gilbert knew that 

 this form was all wrong, and when Cremorne only 

 beat Indian Princess by a short head for a Biennial 

 at York, and succumbed to Onslow in the Prince 

 of Wales's Stakes later in the afternoon, he began 

 to fear that his pet was a little shifty, and not 

 always in the mood to do his best. It was not 

 until three days before the Criterion that the 

 discovery of what was really the matter was made. 

 On visiting the colt at last " stables " he was found 

 to be in great pain from a severe attack of gripes, 

 and, whilst doing all that was possible to alleviate 

 this, the trainer discovered that he was a very bad 

 wind sucker, so bad that he would even indulge in 

 the habit whilst eating his corn. After this, he 

 was never allowed a bit of straw, but was always 

 bedded on sawdust, and he never had a feed of 

 corn without wearing a wind-sucking bit. This 

 attack of gripes would probably account for his 

 only finishing third in the Criterion, for Nuncham 

 certainly ought not to have beaten him, still I 

 doubt if he was ever quite so good as Prince 

 Charhe at any distance up to a mile, though, with 

 both at their best, it was a desperately near thing 

 between them. 



Cremorne wintered so well that it was not 

 thought necessary to try him prior to the Two 

 Thousand, in which he succumbed to Prince 

 Charlie. Considering that he was only beaten by 

 a neck, and that John Osborne rode the winner, 

 whilst IMaidment was up on Cremorne, which, at 

 a moderate estimate, would certainly be 3 lb. in 

 favour of the former, there could have been little 



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