A GREAT YEAR 



to carry home his 7 st. 1 lb. This included a 7 lb. 

 penalty for his Derby race, and he was supposed not 

 to have much chance, starting at 100 to 8, as did Lord 

 Cholmondeley's Screech Owl, the runner up. 



Amphion went to Ascot and won the Fern Hill 

 Stakes. As General Byrne, his owner, was about to 

 mount the steps of the Iron Stand he was stopped by 

 an acquaintance who asked if his colt could win, to 

 which he dryly replied, " That is just what I am going 

 upstairs to ascertain ! " There was some trouble after 

 this race, not however involving Amphion. Ham- 

 mond, the owner of St. Gatien and Florence, together 

 with his jockey Rickaby, were called before the 

 Stewards to explain the running of a filly called Paloma, 

 who had been snatched up very sharply. The jockey 

 was acquitted of evil intention, and Hammond 

 cautioned against " tying down his jockey with orders 

 not to be second or third." On the Thursday 

 Amphion won the Biennial. At Goodwood there 

 was a great race for the Stewards' Cup, in which the 

 colt was just beaten a neck by a very speedy animal 

 called Dog Rose with 15 lb. less weight. He was 

 then second for the Free Handicap for Three- Year- 

 Olds, a now extinct race, to Ormuz in receipt of 25 lb. 



In April over a mile a three-year-old receives from 

 a four-year-old 1 9 lb. In the Esher Stakes at Sandown 

 the now four-year-old Amphion had to give the three- 

 year-old winner 33 lb., and as that winner was Sainfoin, 



