220 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Cambridgeshire in which Sandiway, who was well 

 backed, finished unplaced to Florence. Riding 

 my hack, I went on to the far side of the course 

 to see the race. " Rosebery ** Smith came up 

 to me and asked if I had backed my mare. I 

 said, " No, I haven't; but I should like to have 

 £^ on her for a place." He replied: " You had 

 better put your * fiver * on Florence. She will 

 win, and your mare will make the running for 

 her.** ** You are wrong there,'* I rejoined, 

 " because I have given orders for my mare to 

 be waited with.'* But it turned out that Mr. 

 Smith was right. As the field came up the hill 

 (the race at that time finished at the ** Top of the 

 Town **) Sandiway was in front, and she was still 

 leading when she passed me, somewhere between 

 the old Red Post and the winning-post. Natu- 

 rally I was intensely annoyed to find that my 

 orders had been disobeyed. It was freely stated 

 afterwards that many of the jockeys were winners 

 over Florence. 



As a four-year-old Sandiway won the Liver- 

 pool Summer Cup, beating Lord Cawdor's The 

 General by a short head; ran second for the 

 Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood, and third in the 

 Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster. In 

 four other races she was unplaced. Then she 

 went to the stud at Eaton. From 1887 to 1899 

 she produced seven foals, the best of them being 

 Calveley, by St. Serf. After the Duke of West- 



