THE DUKE OF PORTLAND 



space to Mrs. Butterwick, a bay by St. Simon out 

 of Miss Middlewick. She was quite a typical St. 

 Simon filly, small and sharp, and soon atoned for 

 a defeat from Queen of Navarre in the Lincoln 

 Plate by easily securing the Althorp Park Stakes 

 at Northampton. Her other two successes during 

 her first season were gained in the Hartington 

 Plate at Manchester, in which she beat the 

 notorious Self Sacrifice and Quickly Wise, and in 

 the Devonshire Nursery Handicap, when she was 

 not to be stopped by having to put up top-weight. 

 Most of her seven reverses were sustained in 

 nurseries, in which it must be admitted that the 

 handicappers were a trifle severe upon her. Three 

 defeats in handicaps, the latest of them sustained 

 on the opening day of the Epsom Summer Meeting, 

 did not presage a triumph in the Oaks, and it is 

 not surprising that 100 to 7 was obtainable about 

 her when the flag fell ; her only other bracket that 

 season was gained in a handicap at Manchester. 

 Indeed she seldom ran except in handicaps, and 

 T fancy that she showed small promise in her 

 yearling days, and that few engagements were 

 made for her. It was the same thing when she 

 was a four-year-old, and her solitary success was 

 gained in the Spencer Plate at Northampton, in 

 which she conceded " lumps " of weight to nearly 

 all her nine opponents. 



Mention of Mrs. Butterwick reminds me of 

 Raeburn, a bay half-brother to Donovan, by St. 

 Simon out of Mowerina, who was foaled in the 

 same season as the filly. They were twice tried 

 as two-year-olds over five furlongs and a half, and 

 upon each occasion the colt won easily. He did 

 not run in public until the First July Meeting, 

 where he carried off* the Stud Produce Stakes, and 

 his prominent displays in the Middle Park and 



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