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Bard, who was affectionately patting the colt's neck, 

 an attention which the silver ticked chestnut — there 

 was a good deal of roan about him — seemed to 

 appreciate, and subsequently the General informed 

 me that he had not been altogether pleased with 

 Charles Wood's riding. Not enough use, he thought, 

 had been made of the colt in the early part of the race. 

 However that may have been Ormonde's longer stride 

 soon set the question at rest when the other reached 

 the great horse's quarters to see if it were possible to 

 get his head in front. 



It may certainly be said that the result was never in 

 doubt, though Archer, who was now riding Ormonde, 

 was content to win by a length and a half. The Judge, 

 Porter states, went so far indeed as to declare that he 

 had never seen a race won more easily. Of course 

 Ormonde was sent to Ascot, where he found a couple 

 of extremely easy tasks. For the St. James's Palace 

 Stakes against two indifferent opponents ioo to 3 was 

 laid on him, and in the Hardwicke 100 to 30, for here 

 it was thought that Melton, the Derby winner of the 

 previous year, ridden by Archer, George Barrett again 

 on Ormonde, might conceivably make the great horse 

 gallop. Melton it may here be said was not a par- 

 ticularly brilliant specimen of a Derby winner, for 

 of other Epsom heroes St. Gatien also beat him. In 

 the Jockey Club Cup which St. Gatien won Melton 



cut a somewhat indifferent figure. 

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