THE DUKE OF PORTLAND 



leg-weary, but it did not pass off, and all hope of 

 his standing another preparation had to be re- 

 luctantly abandoned. Here is a list of his win- 

 nings in stakes in two seasons, a record which has 

 never been approached, for it took Isinglass four 

 seasons to accumulate his wonderful total : — 



£1034 15 



6000 



1169 



475 



1250 



1120 



700 



900 



537 



2105 



1197 



1888 



Brocklesby Stakes (Lincoln) 

 Portland Stakes (Leicester) 

 New Stakes (Ascot) . 

 Bibury Club Foal Stakes (Stockbridge) 

 Hurstbourne Stakes (Stockbridge) 

 iJuly Stakes (Newmarket) . 

 Ham Stakes (Goodwood) 

 Buckenham Stakes (Newmarket) 

 Hopeful Stakes (Newmarket) 

 Middle Park Plate (Newmarket) 

 Dewhui-st Plate (Newmarket) 



1889 



Prince of Wales's Stakes (Leicester) 

 Newmarket Stakes (Newmarket) 

 The Derby (Epsom) . 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes (Ascot) 

 St. Leger (Doncaster) . 

 Lancashire Plate (Manchester) 

 Royal Stakes (Newmarket) . 



This amounts to a grand total of £55,154 : 10s., 

 which was earned by eighteen wins out of the 

 twenty -one races in which the colt took part. 

 Whilst in training he could never be described as 

 good-looking, but the improvement he made after 

 letting down and furnishing was really extra- 



ordinary, and when I saw him at Welbeck in 1895 

 I thought that he had grown into one of the 



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