A GREAT YEAR 



feeding him with tufts of grass," a spectacle which many 

 of us well recall, and naturally it created no small 

 apprehension on the part of those who had laid long 

 odds. In this year a three-year-old of the Duke's 

 named Frontier won the Ascot Derby : the remaining 

 £5000, for the Duke's total was £43,965, was made up 

 in nine races, the whole number he won having been 

 only sixteen. 



The year 1900 was a peculiarly gratifying one for 

 the reason that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 

 made his way to the top, almost entirely by the aid of 

 Persimmon's younger brother Diamond Jubilee. What 

 rendered this the more satisfactory was that as a two- 

 year-old the son of St. Simon and Perdita II. had been 

 a very doubtful quantity. Favourite for the Coventry 

 Stakes at a shade over even money he had finished 

 unplaced. Favourite again for the July Stakes he had 

 behaved like a mad horse at the post, took no part in 

 the race, which was won by Captain Kettle, the out- 

 sider of the party, belonging to a relation of my own 

 who had not the least expectation of success. Diamond 

 Jubilee did better at Goodwood, though he did not 

 win there, his first success being in the Boscawen 

 Stakes, where he beat a filly called Paigle, belonging 

 to Captain Kettle's owner, by a short head. This was, 

 indeed, his only win as a two-year-old, for Democrat 

 beat him in the Middle Park Plate, as he did again in 

 the Dewhurst. As a three-year-old the colt sobered 



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