HE, SKY-ROCKET, AND TRECLARE 



in the Chatsworth Plate, which he had won the previous 

 year. 



As a five-year-old, the horse having been sold by 

 Sir Samuel to Mr. J. B. Joel, he was at his best, missing 

 only in two of his seven attempts. Again he led off 

 with the Teddington Plate, won the Royal Stakes from 

 the Oaks winner, Mr. Foxhall Keene's Cap and Bells 

 II., the mare in receipt of 19 lb. ; won the King's 

 Stand Plate at Ascot from Newsboy, the July Cup for 

 the second time, 25 to 1 on him, for all but one poor 

 opponent were frightened away. With the crushing 

 burden of 9 st. 10 lb. it is not surprising that he should 

 have been beaten for the Stewards' Cup, though his 

 reputation was so high that he found backers at 10 to 

 1. At Lewes he started favourite for and won the 

 de Warrenne Handicap, which at the time usually 

 brought out several Stewards' Cup horses ; and then 

 he disappointed his admirers by failure in a match with 

 Le Blizon, though there was the sound excuse for him 

 that he was trying to give that speedy horse only 2 lb. 

 short of 2 st. Sundridge ran as a six-year-old and 

 sustained his reputation. The Egmont Plate at 

 Epsom he lost by only a short head, endeavouring to 

 give the winner, the late Mr. George Edwardes's 

 Nutwith, exactly 4 st. ! For the second time he won 

 the King's Stand Plate and for the third time the July 

 Cup. Against him in the last named 13 to 8 was 

 laid, Cossack starting at 6 to 4 on. His third trial for 

 2 a 185 



