A GREAT YEAR 



Edward Handicap at Manchester, it being rightly 

 suspected that he was not in the least likely to stay the 

 mile and a quarter; consequently ioo to 8 was on 

 offer, a result of his performance being that he was 

 never again started for a race over more than the six 

 furlongs which was his proper distance, or at least it 

 should rather be said his limit, as he probably preferred 

 five. In the £1000 Duke of Richmond Plate at 

 Kempton he had too much to carry, as he had again — 

 within a pound of 9 st. — in the Croxteth Plate at 

 Liverpool, but he wound up his three-year-old career 

 by easily taking the Chatsworth Plate at Derby. 



There was a certain similarity between the record 

 of Sundridge as a three-year-old and as a four-year-old. 

 In both cases he began and ended with a win, and was 

 beaten because the handicappers were at times some- 

 what too severe. He led off with the Teddington 

 Plate at Kempton, found 9 st. 5 lb. too much for him 

 in the Royal Stakes at Epsom won by Sir James 

 Miller's useful Cossack with just a stone less weight ; 

 took the July Cup, which has seldom fallen to other 

 than a horse of mark ; but 9 st. 4 lb. was more than 

 he could carry to the front in the Stewards' Cup — at 

 Goodwood need hardly be added, for that is the 

 Stewards' Cup — and with 10 st. was beaten into third 

 place by Orchid, 9 st. 2 lb., for the Marine Plate at 

 Brighton. A couple of seconds to good horses, 

 Chacornac and Lord Bobs, preceded an easy victory 



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