134 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Morna could not quite stay the Oaks course, 

 and the heavy going after the storm did not 

 improve her chance. Brigantine, who beat her 

 that day, was a light, shelly sort of mare, with 

 beautiful action. As previously stated, she beat 

 Blue Gown in the Ascot Cup the following 

 year. 



At Goodwood Morna won the Nassau Stakes, 

 giving Scottish Queen, who finished a bad third, 

 7 lb. ; and at Doncaster won the Don Stakes. In 

 the Brighton Cup she was placed second to 

 Restitution. The latter belonged to Baron Roths- 

 child, who was said to have made a wager before 

 the race that the cup would be on his dinner- 

 table that night. Immediately after racing was 

 over he drove away with the Cup under his arm, 

 and chartering a special train to London, won his 

 bet. We ran Morna as a four-year-old in the 

 Ascot, Goodwood, and Stewards' Cups. She was 

 unplaced each time. Then she went to the stud, 

 and in 1872 produced to Asteroid a filly named 

 Zitella, who won a race at Epsom for Mr. Chaplin 

 as a two-year-old. Barren in 1873, Morna was 

 sold to go to France. Her record as a brood 

 mare was a very indifferent one. 



Pero Gomez made his first appearance in 

 public in the Middle Park Plate of 1868. 

 A few days previously we tried him with 

 Morna and The Palmer, with the appended 

 result ; 



