GALOPIN AND PETRARCH 



Somewhat curiously, the very next race in whicli 

 he took part proved conchisively how easily 

 Galopin ought to have beaten Cachmere. This 

 was the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot, which, with 

 F. Archer in the saddle, he won in the easiest 

 possible fashion by five lengths. Slumber, a very 

 speedy three-year-old filly belonging to M. Lefevre, 

 was second, and was attempting to give him 23 lb. 

 for the year. About two months previously she 

 had met Cachmere in the Whittlebury Stakes 

 at Northampton, and had given her 26 lb. and 

 a head beating, so it is perfectly clear that the 

 running in the Hyde Park Plate was quite 14 Ib^ 

 wrong. On the day following the decision of the 

 Fern Hill Stakes, Galopin had a very easy task 

 in the New Stakes, for, though the opposition 

 just ran into double figures, class was very poorly 

 represented amongst them. Then came a long rest, 

 the colt not being brought out again until the 

 Middle Park Plate. Holy Friar, an unbeaten son 

 of Hermit and Thorsday belonging to "Parson 

 Launde," was all the rage for this race, and 6 to 1 

 was the starting price of Galopin, who escaped 

 with a 4 lb. penalty. There is not the smallest 

 doubt that he ought to have won easily enough, 

 but, just as they got into the Abingdon Bottom, 

 Horse Chesnut collided so heavily with him as to 

 nearly knock him off his legs. Of course this put 

 him rijjht out of his stride and lost him some 

 lengths, so that, though he was making up his 

 ground very fast at the finish, he could only get 

 third to Plebeian and Per Se, two heads separat- 

 ing the three of them. A mere exercise canter 

 over the last half of the R.M. and a walk over 

 during the Houghton Meeting completed his 

 labours for the year, which had not been of a 

 very arduous description. The fact was that Prince 



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