HENRY SAVILE 



better class in the July Stakes, which she won by 

 half a length from the very speedy Harden, with 

 St. Marguerite and Dutch Oven, who afterwards 

 won the One Thousand and St. Leger respectively, 

 running a dead-heat for third place. She again 

 encountered the same two fillies in the liichmond 

 Stakes at Goodwood, in which she sustained her 

 only reverse of that season, as she failed by a head 

 to give 4 lb. to Dutch Oven, and St. Marguerite, in 

 receipt of the same amount of weight, made a dead- 

 heat with her for second place. The form, how- 

 ever, was not very far wrong, as Kermesse only 

 beat Dutch Oven by half a length at even weights 

 in the Champagne Stakes, though in the JNIiddle 

 Park Plate, in which she brought her two-year-old 

 career to a triumphant conclusion, St. INIarguerite 

 received 3 lb. and a length and a half beating. 

 The filly thus won five out of the six races in 

 which she took part, securing the very handsome 

 aggregate of £7047 in stakes, and it was a thou- 

 sand pities that she should have failed to stand a 

 thorough preparation after her first season. Re- 

 turning to Cremorne and his lack of success at the 

 stud, I think that it was mainly attributable to 

 insufficient exercise. When Gilbert handed him 

 over to the care of the stud groom at RufFord, he 

 warned him that the horse could scarcely have 

 too much walking, and ought to be out for three 

 hours in the morning and two more in the after- 

 noon. As a matter of fact he did not get half 

 that amount of walking, but was placed in a box 

 with a good yard attached to it, imder the im- 

 pression that he would exercise himself A horse 

 of poor Tristan's restless disposition would doubt- 

 less have done it, and have kept himself fit enough 

 to win a good race with half a dozen gallops, but 

 Cremorne was not "built that way," and used to 



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