GRAND PARADE 



performances of the chief of those who have been 

 mentioned, and to begin with we will treat Grand 

 Parade's paternal ancestors. As a two-year-old Orby 

 seems to have done something in home gallops which 

 he did not repeat on the racecourse. He came out at 

 Leopardstown in August for the Londonderry Plate, a 

 £500 race, a not inconsiderable prize for Ireland. So 

 good a thing was it supposed to be that odds of 3 to 1 

 were laid on him, and he finished third in a field of six, 

 the race being won by a son of Bushey Park called 

 Gleg, whose name conveys no impression to English 

 racegoers. Three weeks later Orby reappeared for 

 the Railway Stakes of £633 at The Curragh. This 

 time there was a slightly better favourite in Rosetown, 

 a son of Laveno, who, however, gave a poor exhibition. 

 Rosetown was backed at 5 to 4, Orby at 6 to 4, and 

 again he was third, beaten two lengths by Electric 

 Rose, a daughter of Lesterlin, second being an animal 

 who was destined to make a reputation, Silver Fowl, 

 daughter of Wildfowler and L'Argent. Coming 

 presently to England Silver Fowl became the dam of 

 Fifinella, winner of the substitute Derby and Oaks, as 

 also amongst other winners of Silver Tag, who greatly 

 distinguished herself as a three-year-old by winning 

 the Cambridgeshire with 8 st. 3 lb. 



Attention was drawn to Orby the following season 

 during the first week of racing, for at Liverpool he 

 somewhat unexpectedly won the Earl of Sefton's 



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