A GREAT YEAR 



a great success, and he died there at the age of twenty- 

 five in 1908. It is a pity John Porter did not keep 

 the horse — or so it seems, for with different mares he 

 might have had different luck. 



St. Marguerite, whose blood enriches Treclare, 

 must by no means be omitted from the record, for this 

 lovely chestnut daughter of Hermit and Devotion, so 

 many of whose brothers and sisters made names for 

 themselves, is among the most notable of matrons, 

 for a variety of reasons, one being that, a classic winner 

 herself, she was the dam of Roquebrune, dam of Rock 

 Sand, sire of Tracery, in turn the sire of The Panther, 

 Abbots Trace, Monarch and other good horses. 

 There were fillies well beyond the average in 1881, 

 when St. Marguerite ran for the Hurstbourne Stakes 

 at Stockbridge, and ridden by George Fordham was 

 third to Geheimniss with Tom Cannon in the saddle, 

 the latter jockey having just sold his mount to Lord 

 Stamford. The deal, it may be observed, was very 

 speedily concluded. " What do you want for her, 

 Tom ? " was the question asked. The great jockey, 

 afterwards to be master of Danebury, replied " 2000 

 guineas, my lord." " Is she worth it ? " Lord Stam- 

 ford inquired. " I think she is." " Then I'll have 

 her." 



The week after Stockbridge she was third for the 

 July, or to speak by the book, she dead-heated for 

 third place with Dutch Oven behind Kermesse and 



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