A GREAT YEAR 



company of exceptionally speedy horses, Lowlander 

 and Ecossais among them, who were constantly 

 running with varying results. Trappist won the 

 Stewards' Cup as a three-year-old in 1875, carrying 

 7 st. 7 lb. 



Sterling, by Hopeful out of a mare by Flatcatcher, 

 was a really good horse, and if he did not run in the 

 classics showed himself up to classic form by beating 

 King of the Forest in a match, King of the Forest 

 having dead-heated with Albert Victor for second 

 place in the Derby behind Favonius. After a long 

 absence Sterling returned to win the Liverpool Autumn 

 Cup of 1873 w ^ tn tne burden of 9 st. 4 lb. Galopin 

 must also be mentioned. This son of Vedette and 

 Flying Duchess was doubtless one of the best horses 

 ever known. For several years it was my frequent 

 custom to ride out on Newmarket Heath in the 

 morning with the late John Dawson, who was perhaps 

 better able to estimate Galopin than anybody else 

 could be ; and he was not prepared to admit that the 

 horse's son St. Simon was his sire's superior. John 

 Dawson would never express an opinion as to precisely 

 how much Galopin was superior to Petrarch. I 

 gathered from him that it was a question of very many 

 pounds ; and yet amongst other races Petrarch won 

 the Two Thousand, the Gold Cup and the Leger. 



Galopin came out for the Hyde Park Plate at 

 Epsom, when a colt named Cachmere beat him a head. 



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