A GREAT YEAR 



ask the colt to run in a handicap with the weight which 

 must inevitably be allotted to him. He started for 

 the Cambridgeshire, however, burdened with 9 st. 

 6 lb. and it cannot be thought strange that he was 

 beaten. 



In 1898 again Mr. Leopold de Rothschild came 

 to the front. He ran an extraordinary number of 

 horses, a considerable number of whom won nothing, 

 but those who did score took fifty-three races in all, 

 worth £30,267 10s. St. Frusquin had gone. He 

 could never be brought out again after the Eclipse, 

 and so a race which had been looked forward to with 

 peculiar interest, the Leger, which would have enabled 

 him to decide the question with Persimmon, lost the 

 attraction it had promised to produce ; for it was 

 evident that nothing could beat the Prince's colt, on 

 whom odds of 1 1 to 2 were laid. Goletta had trained 

 on, and became the principal scorer, for after winning 

 a Triennial at Ascot worth £682, she contributed 

 £8501 by her victory in the Princess of Wales's Stakes. 

 St. Gris, a son of Galopin and Isabel — thus more than 

 half-brother to St. Frusquin, St. Gris being by St. 

 Frusquin's sire Galopin and having the same dam — 

 greatly distinguished himself by beating Flying Fox 

 for the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park. 

 Another smart two-year-old named Trident won three 

 good races. Jacquemart won the Hunt Cup, £2340, 

 and other races. A colt named Fosco earned half a 



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