250 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Kendal. A chestnut by Bend Or out of 

 Windermere, he was a leggy colt, standing, as 

 a two-year-old, about 15.3. He was fairly well 

 proportioned, but somewhat light of bone, and 

 unduly heavy about the neck. Still, apart from 

 his somewhat slender limbs, there was not much 

 fault to be found with him. He shaped well in 

 his early two-year-old days, and I had him ready 

 in May to run at Chester, where he won the 

 Mostyn Plate, for which he started an odds-on 

 favourite. At Ascot, in the contest for the New 

 Stakes, he was beaten into second place by 

 Saraband, a colt by Muncaster who that season 

 won six races out of eight. Kendal then won 

 five races off the reel — the Post Sweepstakes at 

 Stockbridge, the " July ** at Newmarket, the 

 Ham Stakes at Goodwood, the " Convivial ** at 

 York, and the Municipal Stakes at Doncaster. 

 His only other outing was in the Rous Memorial 

 at Newmarket. Unfortunately he broke down 

 in that race and was never able to run again. 

 Chapman tells us that when Ormonde and 

 Kendal were foals the Duke of Westminster 

 preferred the latter. His Grace must have 

 changed his mind the following year, because 

 when the entries for the Derby were made 

 Kendal was not nominated. 



It will be gathered from the foregoing 

 summary of Kendal's performances prior to his 

 breakdown that he was a useful sort of two-year- 



