A GREAT YEAR 



ASCOT HEATH. Wednesday, June l8th. 



VISITORS' HANDICAP of £15 each, 5 ft., with £300 added 

 for winner and £50 for second ; third saved stake ; Swinley 

 Course, i£ m. (24 ents. — £430.) 

 Lord Glanely's ch.c. Sky-rocket, by Sunstar 



— Maid of the Mist, 4 yrs., 8 st. 5 lb. - A. Smith O 



Duke of Portland's b.c. Sir Berkeley, by 



Sunstar — La Roche, 4 yrs., 7 st. 11 lb. - V. Smyth o 

 Lord Wilton's Jack Point, 4 yrs., 8 st. 2 lb. - W. Earl 3 



Capt. Lionel Montagu's Helion, 4 yrs., 7 st. 



7 lb. S. Donoghue - 



5/4 agst. Sir Berkeley, 5/2 Helion, 5/1 Sky-rocket, 6/1 Jack 

 Point. A dead heat, third beaten three lengths. Stakes 

 divided. 



Grand Fleet with 8 st. 5 lb. failed in the Hunt Cup, 

 won by that extraordinarily good horse Irish Elegance, 

 and Starshot, backed at 3 to 1, ran behind His 

 Majesty's Viceroy in the Waterford Stakes. Viceroy 

 when inclined to gallop was well able to do so, but he 

 was distinctly a horse of moods. " No vice about 

 him — except in his name you know," Lord Marcus 

 had observed to me when speaking of the colt's dis- 

 position just before he came out for the first time as a 

 two-year-old at Newmarket. 



Wednesday's gains were therefore modest, Old Bill, 

 however, paying indirect tribute to Dominion by 

 winning the Ascot Derby ; but Thursday was to add 

 to the spoils. Second on the card came the Granville 

 Stakes for Two-Year-Olds and Three- Year-Olds, 

 contested by a trio of the latter age. Iron Hand 



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