THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD 



1895, the case of a thoroughly wet day being 

 always excepted. 



Hippia was not seen out again until the Grand 

 Duke Michael Stakes at the First October Meet- 

 ing. A very select quartette took part in this race, 

 in which Hermit, trying to give 7 lb. to Friponnier 

 and Julius, was beaten a length from the former 

 of the pair, and Hippia, in receipt of 11 lb. from 

 the Derby winner, was a fair third. On the follow- 

 ing day she cut up indifferently in the St. Leger 

 Stakes, decided over the D.I., and 8 st. effectually 

 stopped her in the Cambridgeshire, for which she 

 had no price in the quotations at the start. It is 

 unnecessary to follow her performances as a four- 

 year-old in detail. She won five of the thirteen 

 races in which she took part at that age, her most 

 important success being gained in a Queen's Plate 

 for mares, which was run over the jNIetropolitan 

 Stakes Course at the Epsom Summer Meeting. 

 The betting was wonderfully close between her 

 and Gomera, the latter having a fractional call at 

 the finish, but Hippia won quite easily, the pair 

 coming right away from the other five runners. 

 Her racing career wound up with three consecu- 

 tive defeats, and I fancy that, contrary to the usual 

 rule with fillies, she was always infinitely better in 

 the spring than later in the year. Her success at 

 the stud was very speedily assured, and, amongst 

 the best of her produce may be mentioned 

 Gunnersbury, Talisman, Hamako, Nellie, Sister 

 Louise, and Genista. Regarded purely from a 

 racing point of view, Nellie was infinitely the best 

 of these, and, as a two-year-old, could almost hold 

 her own with Kermesse, Dutch Oven, and St. 

 Marguerite, with each of whom she had two or 

 three stiff battles. Gunnersbury was a failure on 

 the Turf, but distinguished himself after his export- 



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