A GREAT YEAR 



Galopin, for the trifle of 50 guineas. This was in 

 July 1880, long before St. Simon's capacity had been 

 revealed. Angelica never ran, and was put to the 

 stud as a three-year-old. Two fillies which she pro- 

 duced by Glendale and Coeruleus were of no account. 

 In 1887 her colt Blue Green by Coeruleus was born 

 and won good races; in 1889 came Orme. Porter 

 states that when first the colt reached Kingsclere he 

 showed great promise, winning his first trial, and duly 

 proceeding to win races, though it may be that his 

 greatest performance was not a victory, but when he 

 ran the Chevalier Ginistrelli's Signorina to half a length 

 for the Lancashire Plate at the Manchester September 

 Meeting. The Duke of Westminster had been 

 particularly anxious to pit Orme against his stable 

 companion, the Baron Hirsch's La Fleche, for the 

 Middle Park Plate. The filly, however, was not sent 

 to Newmarket, being retired for the season after taking 

 the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, and with odds of 

 15 to 8 on him Orme had it all his own way in the race 

 that has been called the " Two-Year-Old Derby." 



My old friend John Porter kindly allows me to 

 borrow from the volume mentioned the account of 

 the tragedy which befel Orme. " A few days before 

 the Guineas Prince Adolphus of Teck, Lord Marcus 

 Beresford (who managed the horses belonging to the 

 Prince of Wales and Baron Hirsch) and Mr. Portal 

 paid a visit to Kingsclere, and at stables in the afternoon 



