A GREAT YEAR 



the Stewards' Cup with 9 st. 11 lb. was another miss, 

 but for the second time he won the de Warrenne, by a 

 neck from Fariman in receipt of 17 lb., lost the Port- 

 land Plate by a head to Santry in receipt of 22 lb., 

 won the Snailwell Stakes, the Kennett Plate, but 

 unfortunately left off with a failure, beaten in the 

 Challenge Stakes by that exceptionally good horse 

 Delaunay, who only lost one of the eleven races he ran 

 that year, that having been the Cambridgeshire taken 

 by Hackler's Pride. 



Elsewhere in this book mention is made of Amphion, 

 the son of Speculum or Rosebery — the latter may be 

 credited with the sireship — and Suicide, a horse it is 

 a pleasure to recall, for I do not recollect a more 

 beautiful one than this golden chestnut, full of quality. 

 It is remarkable that he together with the subsequent 

 Oaks winner, L'Abbesse de Jouarre, the joint property 

 of Lords Dunraven and Randolph Churchill, should 

 have come out for the Croydon Spring Two- Year-Old 

 Plate of 1888 ; for at Croydon good flat-race horses 

 were rare. Ridden by Watts, General Byrne's colt 

 won easily by three lengths, the filly unplaced. 

 Trained as he was at Stockbridge Amphion was 

 naturally engaged at the meeting there and took the 

 Champagne Stakes — ridden by Tom Cannon, who 

 was to be associated with a number of his triumphs — 

 also the Great Kingston Two-Year-Old race at Sandown 

 from Mr. Redfern's useful horse Yard Arm. Three 



