HENRY SAVILE 



a Biennial, whilst he frightened away all opposition 

 in a similar event on the last day of the meeting. 

 King Liid had no chance with him at 7 lb. in the 

 Great Yorkshire Stakes, and, but for the unfor- 

 tunate fact of his being omitted from the entry, 

 the name of Wenlock would never have appeared 

 amongst those of the winners of the St. Leger. 

 His failure by a neck to give 14 lb. to Laburnum 

 over the severe Ditch In for the Newmarket St. 

 Leger does not require much apology, for Baron 

 Rothschild's King Tom colt was a stayer, and 

 could gallop when he chose, though, unluckily for 

 his owner, he was not caught in the humour to -do 

 so more than once or twice in the course of a 

 season. As a matter of fact, however, Cremorne 

 was not himself upon that occasion, and never 

 ought to have been started. His teeth had been 

 giving him a good deal of trouble, so much in fact 

 that he was quite off his feed, and, under ordinary 

 circumstances, he was such a glutton that Gilbert 

 well knew that something was seriously amiss if a 

 single oat was left in his manger. Fortunately he 

 soon pulled round, and wound up the season with 

 eclat by making very light of a 7 lb. penalty in the 

 Newmarket Derby, on the last day of the Second 

 October INleeting. 



His first appearance as a four-year-old was made 

 in the City and Suburban, in which he carried 

 9 St. 2 lb., and was beaten three-parts of a length 

 by Mornington, to whom he was trying to give a 

 year and 17 lb. He was not quite up to the mark 

 in point of condition, nevertheless Gilbert always 

 thought that he would just have won if Maidment 

 had ridden strictly according to orders. After 

 this he was given an uninterrupted preparation for 

 the Gold Cup at Ascot, his trial for which was so 

 remarkable that I have set it out at length. It 



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