224 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



same week he was second to Energy, a very 

 speedy horse, in the Wokingham Stakes. At 

 Goodwood he ran a great horse when second in 

 the Stewards' Cup, carrying 8 st. lo lb., and the 

 same week he won the Racing Stakes. At 

 Newmarket, in the autumn, he won the Select 

 Stakes, walked- over for the All -Aged Stakes, 

 and ran St. Gatien, who was conceding 3 lb., to 

 three-parts of a length in the Free Handicap. 

 As a four-year-old he ran thirteen times without 

 winning. We sold him early in the autumn of 

 that season to Captain Machell, and in the 

 Champion Stakes at Newmarket he ran Paradox 

 to a neck, though the latter could have won by 

 a much bigger margin. He was then cut, and 

 did not run at all as a five-year-old. Sold to 

 General Owen Williams, his attention was next 

 turned to hurdle-racing. After winning selling 

 hurdle races, he was at various times sold for 

 240 guineas, 310 guineas, and 340 guineas. 

 Sir T. Brinckman and Tom Cannon had him for 

 a while. His name disappeared from the records 

 after 1890. Little did any of us associated with 

 him when he was a two- and three-year-old imagine 

 that he would descend to the sphere in which he 

 finished his racing career. He had remarkable 

 speed in his early days, but lacked stamina. I 

 have often wondered what he would have done 

 had he been sent to the stud at the close of his 

 three-year-old season. 



