PERO GOMEZ 



The rich vein that yielded us Blue Gown, 

 Rosicrucian, and Green Sleeve produced other 

 valuable ** nuggets '* in Pero Gomez and Morna, 

 two-year-olds in 1868. A brown colt by Beads- 

 man out of Salamanca, and therefore brother 

 to Arapeile, one of our winners in 1866, Pero 

 Gomez did not make his first public appearance 

 until the autumn of his juvenile days, so I will 

 deal first of all with Morna, a bay, and sister to 

 The Palmer and Rosicrucian. She ran her first 

 race in the summer at Epsom, where she finished 

 second in the Two Year Old Stakes to Chanoin- 

 esse, sister to Hermit and a winner that season 

 of nine races. Morna's next outing was at Good- 

 wood, where she was unplaced for the Lavant 

 Stakes, won by Mr. Brayley*s Duke of Beaufort, 

 by Trumpeter. At Doncaster she was in the 

 Champagne Stakes, and for that race we tried her 

 on September i with the following result: 



Six Furlongs 



Moma, 2 yrs., 7 st. 4 lb i 



Pero Gomez, 2 yrs., 8 st. 1 1 lb. . . . 2 



Xi, 4 yrs., 10 st. 4 lb. . . . .3 



Won by two lengths ; the same between second and third. 



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