THE GRADUAL RISE 



marred by a single defeat for which there is legitimate 

 excuse. Grand Parade, a beautiful very dark brown 

 colt, described indeed as a black, by Orby out 

 of Grand Geraldine, came out at the Craven Meeting 

 with sufficient reputation to cause him to start 

 favourite at 3 to I for the First Division of the 

 FitzWilliam Stakes, and the verdict of two lengths 

 does not suggest the ease with which he won. 

 Mr. J. B. Joel's Petrol, quite a nice colt, had 

 been backed at 7 to 2, and the pair met again when 

 Grand Parade appeared a second time in the SoltykorT 

 Stakes at the Second July. Here Petrol was favourite, 

 for Grand Parade had to give him 8 lb. Carslake 

 rode an excellent race on the son of Sunder and got 

 to within a neck of Grand Parade as they passed the 

 post. There is a theory that two-year-olds manage to 

 give away weight better than do their seniors ; weight 

 nevertheless will always tell. 



A number of Irish engagements had been made for 

 Grand Parade ; he was sent to fulfil some of them, and 

 ten days after his Newmarket success he secured a 

 Biennial at the Curragh from opponents whose names 

 would convey little impression to the majority of 

 English readers. At the Curragh his next victory 

 was also achieved two months later in the Anglesey 

 Stakes, and he waited there another month for the 

 National Produce Stakes on the same course, a prize 

 of j£ii86, which is a large one for Ireland. He had 

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