GRAND PARADE 



his first appearance in a Post Sweepstakes over the 

 Bretby Stakes Course at Newmarket, six furlongs. 

 Slight odds were laid on the Duke of Portland's 

 Modwena, a daughter of Galopin and Mowerina, who 

 had previously won eight often races, the third runner 

 being Warbler, the property of the Duke of Hamilton. 

 Archer rode Ormonde and beat Modwena a length. 

 At the Houghton Meeting which followed, and began 

 on the Monday, Ormonde ran for the Criterion Stakes, 

 which then finished at what used to be called the 

 " Top of the Town." This he won with great ease, 

 as he subsequently did the Dewhurst two days later, 

 that is to say on the Wednesday, this completing his 

 labours for the year. 



It may be doubted whether there have ever been 

 better two-year-olds than those of 1885, the best of 

 them according to general opinion being Mr. Vyner's 

 Minting, a son of Lord Lyon and Mint Sauce, one 

 of the few good horses that Lord Lyon sired. This 

 view of Minting was not universal, there being not 

 a few who preferred Saraband, a son of Muncaster 

 and Highland Fling. W'hen Saraband first came out 

 at Kempton Tom Cannon was riding a horse of his 

 own whom he thought possessed of a fair chance. 

 Saraband won so easily and by so much that the 

 famous jockey humorously expressed his belief that 

 the winner could have completed the whole circuit of 

 the course and then caught him. The Bard, a son 



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