GALOPIN AND PETRARCH 



event that it is needless to do more than make 

 very brief reference to it. They ran over the R.M. 

 for 1000 sov. ; the five-year-old, who was ridden by 

 Fordham, carried 9 st., and was attempting to give 

 12 lb. to Galopin. It was the old story of handicap 

 form opposed to classic form over again, and the 

 result was the saine as it almost invariably is, 

 for though Lowlander was never beaten, except 

 upon this occasion, between Ascot and the end 

 of the season, and seemed quite indifferent to 

 weight when running in his own class, there is 

 little doubt that Galopin could have done him at 

 " evens." Two days later Prince Batthyany's beau- 

 tiful colt cantered off with the Newmarket Derby, 

 which was run over the last mile and a half of the 

 B.C. Craig Millar, whose St. Leger victory had 

 been gained very easily only a few weeks earlier, 

 was meeting him at even weights, and he gave 

 7 lb. to each of such useful performers as Balfe, 

 Picnic, St. Leger, and New Holland. His trainer 

 estimates that he was a 21 lb. better horse than 

 Craig Millar, and, though there must be a certain 

 amount of guess-work about this, it is abso- 

 lutely certain that he was always 17 lb. in front of 

 Petrarch, for they were galloped with the same 

 tackle. This was his last race, for though he was 

 as sound as a bell, and might have well gone on 

 for another two or three seasons, and earned a 

 great reputation as a Cup horse, the excitement 

 attendant upon running him was too much for 

 Prince Batthyany, who was getting to be an old 

 man, and could not bear the idea of his pet running 

 the smallest risk of being beaten. Indeed, such a 

 contretemps might well have proved very serious, 

 as was shown just eight years later, when the 

 Prince dropped dead on the Jockey Club Stand 

 at Newmarket, the immediate cause of this sad 



268 



