-^ Modern Ascot 



Jubilee year to Queen Victoria's noble son exactly coincided 

 with the fitness of things in the popular imagination. Our 

 King has had few more spontaneous outbursts of genuine 

 loyalty and appreciation thaa was expressed in the cheers 

 that greeted his win of the Gold Cup in 1897. 



It is enough that Persimmon has won, but, if we be 

 keen sportsmen, we shall perhaps wish to see the record 

 of the race. 



H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' Persimmon by St, 



Simon — Perdita II., 4 years, 9 st. . . (Watts) i 



Mr. J. C. Sullivan's Winkfield's Pride, 4 years, 



9 St. . . . . . . . . (Cannon) 2 



Mr. Hamar Bass's Love Wisely, 4 years, 9 st. . (Loatcs) 3 



Lord Hindlip's Limasol, 3 years, 7 st. 4 lb. . (Allsopp) 4 



That the time was 4 mins. 39 sees., and that the stakes 

 represented ;^338o as against ^450 in 1837, are mere 

 details. 



The great race is over. There are other races, but the 

 glory has to a great extent departed. We saunter on to 

 the lawn at the back of the Stands and inspect again the 

 Gold Cup, a fine piece of plate, manufactured by Messrs. 

 Garrard, and representing a Bacchanalian Vase, after the 

 Greek Model at Warwick Castle. 



It has been a typical Ascot Day. A more beautifully 

 clear sky, a more brilliant sun, and a grander, more stately, 

 brighter spectacle could not have been seen at any other race 

 meeting in any other country, place, or clime, the racing 

 keeping up to the traditions of Royal Ascot, and fashion 

 never clothing her devotees more bewitchingly than at the 



present time. 



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