GRAND PARADE 



beat Orvieto by a couple of lengths for the Champion 

 Stakes, a race in which it may be needless to say there 

 are neither penalties nor allowances, won the Limekiln 

 Stakes by three lengths from Colonel North's El 

 Diablo, Sir Hugo third, won the Subscription Stakes 

 the following day ; but coming out again the next 

 afternoon was beaten by El Diablo a length and a half, 

 this time endeavouring to give 16 lb. Between Orme 

 and La Fleche there could really have been very 

 little to choose, for there is no evidence that he 

 stayed sufficiently well to have won the Ascot Cup. 

 In the Eclipse of 1893 the filly started favourite 

 at evens, Orme was backed at 2 to 1 and he was 

 successful, La Fleche third, beaten more than three 

 lengths. 



There are many who maintain that the great- 

 grandsire of Grand Parade, Ormonde, was the best 

 horse the Turf has ever known. Others again would 

 vote for St. Simon, and those are perhaps the most 

 judicious who refrain from any attempt to make choice 

 between them. John Porter trained Ormonde, and it 

 may be that his view is not entirely unprejudiced. 

 He writes : " I have often been asked for my opinion 

 concerning the merits of St. Simon. Naturally I share 

 the universal view that he was a very great horse ; at 

 the same time I am convinced he was no better than, 

 if as good as, Ormonde. Neither suffered defeat. 

 In favouring Ormonde I am influenced by the 



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