HE, SKY-ROCKET, AND TRECLARE 



to be sold. The winner was bought in for 510 guineas. 

 Next season Sundridge started off well if unambitiously, 

 taking the Heath High-weight Handicap at the New- 

 market First Spring, Rous course, and he followed on 

 by a success, the Earl of Chester's Welter Handicap, 

 winning easily by three lengths in the hands of Morny 

 Cannon, burdened with 9 st. 1 lb., several older horses 

 having much less weight. For the Royal Plate at 

 Epsom Summer he was second to that speedy horse 

 Master Willie, who came very near to making a record 

 down this hill, having done the five furlongs in $6 

 and 2/5ths seconds ; and there were other notable 

 sprinters in the race, Dieudonne, Bridge, Sonatura, 

 the Lincolnshire Handicap winner Little Eva, and 

 La Lune, another who used to come at a great pace 

 down the Epsom Hill. 



He was fully equal to the occasion, however, in the 

 July Stakes at Newmarket, and very nearly so in the 

 Portland Plate at Doncaster, for here in receipt of 

 only 2 lb. from Dieudonne, then a six-year-old, the 

 young one failed by no more than three parts of a 

 length. There is always a good field for the Portland 

 Plate and here were the Stewards' Cup winner 

 O'Donovan Rossa, Orchid, Elizabeth M., Leisure 

 Hour and Mazeppa, who had won this Plate two years 

 previously, also La Lune, Water Lily, who started 

 favourite, and Northern Farmer. Sundridge was not 

 fancied, at any rate by the public, for the Prince 



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