HENRY SAVILE 



blistered. It was not possible to bring him out as 

 a two-year-old until Ascot, where he did not make 

 much of a show in his two engagements, for, 

 though he managed to get third to Marie Stuart 

 in the New Stakes, Mr. Merry's beautiful filly won 

 as she hked. At Stockbridge, however, he upset 

 the odds that were laid on Somerset in a Biennial, 

 though the latter turned the tables upon him 

 when meeting him on precisely the same terms 

 in the Hurstbourne Stakes on the following day, 

 the pair being respectively second and third to the 

 flying Cantiniere. Somerset beat him very easily 

 indeed in the July Stakes, but then came a series 

 of four successive brackets, the most important of 

 them being gained by his victory in the Champagne 

 Stakes at Don caster, and his dead-heat with Suri- 

 nam, to whom he was conceding 4 lb., for first 

 place in the Middle Park Plate. A very good 

 field of sixteen finished behind the dead-heaters. 

 Cantiniere was favourite, but she had then become 

 such a very bad roarer that there was no chance of 

 her getting the Bretby Stakes course, and others 

 that subsequently helped to " make history " were 

 Montargis, Flageolet, JNIarie Stuart, who started 

 at 20 to 1 and must have been completely " off," 

 Andred, and Chandos. Kaiser wound up the 

 season by running third to Flageolet and Paladin 

 in the Criterion Stakes, but he was giving a little 

 weight to each over a course upon which every 

 extra pound tells with special severity. 



Kaiser's hardworking career as a three-year-old 

 began and ended with a defeat. The great feature 

 of it was his battles with Gang Forward, in which 

 both horses ran extraordinarily true to their form. 

 In the Two Thousand JNlr. Crawfurd's colt won by a 

 short head ; in the Derby the pair ran a dead-heat 

 for second place to Doncaster ; and in the Prince 



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