296 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



year-old, and in 1888 carried off the Chesterfield 

 Cup at Goodwood. 



In 1886 Captain Bowling and I bought a 

 two-year-old colt named Carrasco, by Speculum. 

 The Captain was a great friend of Archer's, 

 and it was through the latter that I got to know 

 him. Bowling's father was a Pembrokeshire 

 rector. The Captain was wounded in the Zulu 

 War, and had to leave the service because he 

 could not use his arm properly after he came out 

 of hospital. Carrasco, a good stayer, won two 

 Nursery Handicaps at Newmarket in the autumn. 

 The following spring he ran The Baron to half a 

 length in the Craven Stakes. His next outing was 

 in the Payne Stakes a month later. In the mean- 

 time, on April 23, the following trial took place at 



Kingsclere : 



One MUe 



St. Mirin, 4 yrs., 9 st. . . . Watts i 

 Candlemas, 4 yrs., 8 st. . . . Barrett 2 

 Tracedown, 3 yrs., 7 st. . . . Wall 3 

 Carrasco, 3 yrs., 7 st. . . . Loates 4 



Ormonde, 4 yrs., — ... Webb 5 



Won by a length; four lengths between second 

 and third ; one length between third and fourth ; 

 one length between fourth and fifth. 



'^ I do not think Loates got all out of Carrasco " 

 is an underlined note which I appended to the 

 record of this trial in my book. It is, perhaps, as 

 well to explain that Ormonde was not being tried 

 that day; he was merely put in so that he might 



