A GREAT YEAR 



Plate. There were half-a-dozen runners for it, two 

 better favourites and one on the same mark, the race 

 being considered a good thing for Lord Derby's 

 Persinus, on whom odds of 6 to 4 were laid. But he 

 could only get third to Orby and Pane, the latter of 

 whom a couple of days before had won the Welbeck 

 Plate at Lincoln. Orby beat him by three lengths. 

 Subsequently he returned to his own country and won 

 the Baldoyle Plate in May. It was stated that he 

 would be sent over to run for the Derby, which was 

 not then, however, supposed to be likely to affect the 

 result. The ground on which he was trained was 

 declared to be altogether unsuitable for a Derby 

 preparation, though it had served in the case of the 

 two races which he had won. The general idea was 

 that Captain Greer's Slieve Gallion had a comparatively 

 easy task. He had won the Two Thousand Guineas, 

 a performance so confidently expected of him that odds 

 of 1 1 to 4 were laid on the son of Gallinule and 

 Reclusion. At Epsom he started at 13 to 8 on, 

 Major Eustace Loder's Galvani coming next in the 

 market at 7 to 1, Lord Rosebery's Bezonian, who had 

 been second for the Two Thousand beaten three 

 lengths, backed at 9 to 1, though there could be no 

 obvious reason why he should alter the Newmarket 

 result. Orby and Wool Winder were both at 100 to 

 9, Earlston at 40 to 1, All Black and Galleot at 50 to 1, 

 with a 100 to 1 outsider in John Bull. 



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