GRAND PARADE 



French Turf with grey horses. Indeed, he may be 

 said to have done the same for the English turf, for his 

 son Le Samaritain was the sire of Roi HeVode, the 

 sire of The Tetrarch. For the Royal Stakes at Kempton 

 Park, of which Porter speaks, the Duke of Portland 

 ran two colts, Melanion, who started at ioo to 30, and 

 Ayrshire 6 to 1, whilst it may be noted that this time 

 Seabreeze stood at 10 to 1. A friend of the Duke of 

 Portland had taken 6000 to 1000 about Ayrshire before 

 he heard that Melanion was the fancied one of the 

 pair, a statement which the Duke confirmed. 

 Obviously, as it seemed, the backer had made a mis- 

 take, and he gave Fry the book-maker £50 to transfer 

 the bet to Melanion, thus losing £1050 instead of 

 winning ^6000. Friar's Balsam was favourite at 5 to 

 4 on, but he had lost his form, as was proved further 

 by a gallop soon after he reached home, and he never 

 ran again, nor was his stock anything like what there 

 had seemed reason to anticipate, though his son Friar 

 Tuck was third for the Derby, Balsamo won the City 

 and Suburban amongst other races, Sterling Balm, 

 Sermon, and some others were winners. Happily a 

 share of his quality, super-excellent when himself, has 

 been transmitted to Grand Parade. 



Friar's Balsam's sire Hermit is one of the most 

 famous of horses, not indeed by reason of exceptional 

 capacity when in training — his great reputation was 

 made at the stud — for his record of failures is an 



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