GEORGE FREDERICK 



in the dip, and watch how he comes down the hill." 

 The report on this point must have been a highly 

 satisfactory one, for not only was it evident that 

 the " Flying Scotchman's " badly shaped fore-legs 

 were very ill adapted for making the descent from 

 Tattenham Corner, but he was beaten much further 

 by Reverberation hi the Two Thousand than the 

 very backward George Frederick had been over 

 the same course a fortnight previously. The latter, 

 though not engaged in the Guineas, had made the 

 journey to headquarters, and, on the last day of 

 the meeting, gave Lord Ailesbury's Beggarman 

 no quarter in the Newmarket Stakes, which was 

 reduced to a match between them. 



George Frederick's Derby trial, at which his 

 owner and the Marquis Talon were present, gives 

 the best idea of the sort of horse he was when 

 something like really fit. Louise Victoria (5 yrs.), 

 Volturno (3 yrs.), and Maud Victoria (2 yrs.) were 

 in it, and the Derby candidate was in receipt of 

 5 lb. from the old mare, and gave 28 lb. to 

 Volturno and 83 lb. to Maud Victoria. The last- 

 named made running for nearly seven furlongs, 

 when she dropped out and Volturno took it up, 

 the pace being a strong one from start to finish. 

 George Frederick was always lying in a good place, 

 and puUing over the others, finally winning as he 

 liked by half a dozen lengths, a distance which 

 might easily have been doubled. In the Derby 

 Volturno and Tipster were the leading pair round 

 Tattenham Corner, and, as the former finished 

 about sixth, it is easy to imagine how much his 

 stable companion must have had in hand of 

 Couronne de Fer and Atlantic. A few days after 

 this, George Frederick met with a shght accident. 

 It was generally thought that he was cast in his 

 box, though Leader does not believe that this was 



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