LORD FALMOUTH 



purchased for something under four figures, and 

 would have proved an extraordinary bargain, for, 

 after a winter's rest, he was kept almost exclusively 

 to short cuts, won his next seven races off the 

 reel, and fourteen altogether in his next two 

 seasons. His speed became greater than it ever 

 promised to be as a two-year-old, and he was 

 almost indifferent to weight, but, as all his later 

 triumphs were gained in the " mauve cerise " of 

 Mr. Vyner, it would be out of place for me to 

 follow them in detail in a chapter devoted to Lord 

 Falmouth's horses. 



The majority of us are inclined to regard Dutch 

 Oven's St. Leger victory as ranking among the 

 greatest flukes in the history of that race, but we 

 are apt to overlook the excellence of her two-year- 

 old form, whilst it may not be generally known 

 that she was always a very delicate filly, and one 

 that it was very difficult to catch just in the right 

 trim. She was a brown, by Dutch Skater out of 

 Cantiniere, so that she was exceptionally neatly 

 named, even if we take into account the almost 

 invariable excellence of Lord Falmouth's nomen- 

 clature. Her initial performance, which was in 

 the July Stakes, showed very great promise, for 

 she made a dead-heat with St. Marguerite for third 

 place, only a length behind Kermesse, whose short 

 but wonderfully brilliant career has been set out 

 in another chapter. There was little in her victory 

 in the Great Lancashire Yearling Stakes at Man- 

 chester in the following week, as she had a pull in 

 the weights with four out of the other five starters ; 

 but a desperate finish for the Richmond Stakes at 

 Goodwood saw her beat Kermesse and St. Mar- 

 guerite, who dead-heated for second, by a head. 

 Kermesse was certainly giving 4 lb. to each of the 

 other two, but this was the only defeat she sustained 



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