A GREAT YEAR 



a head ; but whether he would have done so if the pair 

 had been three or four feet apart is another matter. 

 An anticipated objection to Buchan for bumping and 

 boring was promptly laid, to be however overruled. 

 Dominion started favourite for the Middle Park Plate 

 and ran well. At this period there was a colt by The 

 Tetrarch called Stefan the Great whose friends 

 regarded him as second to none, and he took the race 

 by three parts of a length from Knight of Blyth, 

 Dominion a neck away third. In the Free Handi- 

 cap with 8 st. 8 lb. he by no means ran up to 

 his form. 



There was another winning twc -year-old in the stable 

 in Exford, a son of Marcovil and Lanford, who started 

 at Birmingham by winning the Coventry Plate in a 

 field of eighteen from a useful filly named Daphne, 

 and Monte Faro. Exford missed the First Extra 

 Two-Year-Old Stakes by a head and a neck, giving 

 7 lb. to the first and second, distinctly useful colts, 

 Violoncello and Viceroy. 



Of the older horses Grand Fleet continued his 

 disappointing career. Carrying 8 st. 12 lb. he dis- 

 posed of a big field for the Crawfurd Plate, winning a 

 head from Lord Derby's Hainault and sixteen others, 

 an encouraging start which made his failures more 

 exasperating, as this was the only race he won through- 

 out the season. Of course he was asked to do much. 

 Diadem beat him out of a place for the Bretby Handicap 



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