" THE HEAD OF THE LIST " 



unplaced. Donovan won the Derby, of the small 

 value that year of £4050, Enthusiast again nowhere. 

 At Ascot the Prince of Wales's Stakes of £2225 went 

 to swell Donovan's total, as did the Leger, worth 

 £4800, Enthusiast fourth, behind Miguel and Daven- 

 port ; also the Lancashire Plate, Mr. Charles Perkins' 

 Chittabob second, and the good French filly Alicante, 

 then a two-year-old, third. Here Enthusiast was 

 nowhere once more. This Manchester race was worth 

 £10,131 15s., and the Royal Stakes at the Newmarket 

 Second October swelled the aggregate by the com- 

 parative trifle of £460, making Donovan's earnings for 

 the year in all £^^666 15s. Ayrshire only won twice 

 in three attempts, but these races were the Kempton 

 Park Royal Stakes of £9500, and the Eclipse, which 

 that year yielded £1 1,165. ^he Duke's two-year-old 

 Semolina started for fifteen races that season and won 

 twelve of them. Memoir, the own sister to La Fleche, 

 though relatively a vast deal better as a three-year- 

 old, in her first season won thrice. It was indeed an 

 amazing year. 



Starting with the period suggested for examination, 

 1895, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild led the way, as he 

 was destined to do twice subsequently, thrice in four 

 years. As usual it was one horse, and — what is not 

 so usual — that a two-year-old, to whom he mainly 

 owed his position. This was St. Frusquin, the son 

 of St. Simon and Isabel, the dam a mare who did much 



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