A GREAT YEAR 



contest. Mr. James Merry had also won the Oaks 

 with Marie Stuart, and when the Doncaster Meeting 

 came round it still remained doubtful whether the 

 classic colt or the classic filly was the better. Their 

 owner determined to let them fight it out, as they did, 

 the result being as nearly as possible a dead heat, 

 though Marie Stuart in the hands of T. Osborne — 

 whose death was recorded whilst this chapter was 

 being written — had a short head the better of it. The 

 sire of Doncaster, Stockwell, has been already men- 

 tioned. Among Lord Glanely's sporting pictures is 

 one by Herring of Pocahontas with Stockwell when a 

 foal at her side. Stockwell's sire, the Baron, did not 

 win the Derby, but in 1845 ne was victorious on the 

 Doncaster Town Moor. Considerations of space 

 render it impossible to trace the parentage of Lord 

 Glanely's colt to a more remote period, for we still 

 have to consider his breeding on the dam's side. 



Grand Geraldine, as mentioned on a previous page, 

 was a daughter of Desmond and Grand Marnier, who 

 was by Friar's Balsam, granddam by Galopin out of 

 Mother Superior by Sterling ; so that on both sides 

 Grand Parade is rich in the bluest blood known in 

 racing history. It is one of the best recognised facts 

 in connection with racing that what a mare does when 

 in training affords no clue to what she is likely to 

 accomplish when sent to the paddocks. Many of the 

 most brilliant performers, winners of not only the 



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