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Ascot Race Course 



GALTEE MORE 



Parker iS= Percy {Cupvn^ht} 



Ascot in 1887, he beat Kilwarlin (the St. Leger winner) 

 by six lengths in the Rous Memorial Stakes, and on the 

 following day met with Minting and Bendigo for the Hard- 

 wicke Stakes. After a close race Ormonde won by a neck 

 amidst great enthusiasm. He was soon after sold for 

 ^12,000, and shipped to Buenos Ayres, and was eventually 

 sold again to the United States for ^30,000. 



Galtee More, the property of Mr. Gubbins, a bay colt 

 by Kendal out of Morganette, was the winner of the Derby 

 and Two Thousand Guineas in 1897, "^^^ ^^ Ascot in the 

 same year won the Prince of Wales' Stakes. 



The Gold Cup, instituted in 1807, has been run for 

 annually, except from 1845 to 1854, when it was replaced 

 by the Emperor's Plate. It has been won twice by only 



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