2o8 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



may as well be beaten on Dutch Oven as on 

 Shotover." As a matter of fact, if Lord Fal- 

 mouth had not wanted Archer, the Duke would 

 have allowed him to ride Geheimniss instead of 

 Shotover, because everybody connected with the 

 Kingsclere stable knew, as Lord Falmouth had 

 hinted, that Lord Stamford's iilly was the better 

 of the two. It only remains to be added that 

 Dutch Oven won the St. Leger from Geheimniss 

 and Shotover, the three ** places ** being thus filled 

 by fillies. Dutch Oven owed her success to the 

 fact that she was a much better stayer than either 

 of our candidates. Indeed, neither Geheimniss 

 nor Shotover had any pretensions to staying the 

 St. Leger distance. 



On the Friday at Doncaster Shotover won 

 the Park Hill Stakes easily from some very moder- 

 ate opponents; but later, at Newmarket, failed 

 by a length to give lo lb. to Kermesse and Nellie, 

 who dead-heated for the Select Stakes. By this 

 time Shotover was showing unmistakable signs 

 that she had had enough racing. She had de- 

 veloped jady habits. The following April, I tried 

 her with Geheimniss as follows: 



Ten Furlongs 



Geheimniss, 4 yrs., 9 st. 7 lb. . . . f 

 Shotover, 4 yrs., 8 st. 12 lb. . . . f 



Locksley, 4 yrs., 6 St. 12 lb. ... 3 



A dead-heat ; three lengths. 



