A GREAT YEAR 



If Ugly Duckling were nearly as good as many backers 

 seemed to suppose, his name should not be omitted. 



For information about Kendal we may again turn 

 to John Porter's book. Chapman, the stud groom, 

 is quoted as having said, " Did the Duke at that time 

 regard Orme as a wonder ? No, I should say not. 

 Like a good many others who came to the stud that 

 year, the Duke preferred Kendal and Whitefriar." 

 Porter relates that on the 7th of October, 1885, a trial 

 took place in which Kendal, carrying 8 st. 7 lb., beat 

 Ormonde, 8 st. 8 lb., by a length. The horse whom the 

 old trainer describes as "the ever-reliable Whipper-in," 

 and Whitefriar, a two-year-old by Hermit, who had not 

 yet raced, were behind. Whipper-in, then a six-year- 

 old, was trying to give only 12 lb., and was beaten 

 another length. The weight Whitefriar carried is not 

 stated. Kendal, by Bend Or out of Windermere, is 

 said to have been " a leggy colt, standing as a two-year- 

 old about 15.3, fairly well proportioned, but somewhat 

 light of bone and heavy about the neck," and as regards 

 the gallop there is the excuse that Ormonde was at 

 the time decidedly backward. 



Had Kendal's lot been cast in an ordinary year he 

 would surely have taken high rank, if not the highest, 

 but coming in the year he did it must be confessed he 

 was at the severest disadvantage. Nevertheless as 

 a two-year-old he won eight of the ten races for which 

 he started. He was first produced at Chester and with 



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