LORD FALMOUTH 



to his business. At anyrate, Mahonia finished 

 many lengths behind him in the Chesterfield Stakes, 

 and it was a better performance than was realised 

 at the time when he defeated Sunlight for the Ham 

 Produce Stakes at Goodwood. It is unnecessary 

 to follow his two-year-old career in detail, and there 

 is no doubt that he ran the best race of his life in 

 that historic finish for the Middle Park Plate, in 

 which Frivolity (8 st. 10 lb.) beat Sunshine (8 st. 

 13 lb.) by a head, and Kingcraft (9 st. 2 lb.) was a 

 short head behind the second. In that race he gave 

 10 lb. to Mahonia and beat her very easily, and the 

 Katherine Logic colt (8 st. 6 lb.), Hawthornden 

 (8 st. 9 lb.), and Normanby (8 st. 9 lb.) were also 

 among the unplaced division. His last race as a 

 two-year-old was for the Criterion Stakes, in which 

 he finished a poor third to Hester and Sunlight, and 

 though he was trying to concede 7 lb. to each of 

 them, a heavy task over the severest six furlongs 

 in England, he ought to have been much nearer to 

 them, and I have always thought that the Middle 

 Park finish broke his heart. 



Kingcraft wintered fairly well, and, though he 

 was untried for the Two Thousand, started first 

 favourite at 75 to 40. His display was decidedly 

 disappointing, for whilst under no circumstances 

 could he have possessed any chance against Mac- 

 gregor, who was always immeasurably superior 

 to Sunshine, he certainly ought to have beaten 

 Normanby, who was nearly 14 lb. behind him on 

 the Middle Park Plate running. In all probability 

 this race did him good, and he was a better horse 

 at Epsom than he had been at Newmarket, but, as 

 no trial took place between the Guineas and Derby, 

 this is only a matter of surmise. Quarters had been 

 secured for the colt at the Durdans, which then be- 

 longed to the late " Squire " Heathcote, but when 



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