LUCKLESS FRIAR'S BALSAM 297 



have a good gallop. The pronounced superiority 

 St. Mirin could now claim over Candlemas will 

 be noted. Having regard to the special reference 

 I make to Carrasco, it is evident the trial had been 

 arranged for his benefit. A fortnight later he 

 went to Newmarket and won the Payne Stakes 

 cleverly by a length from an odds-on favourite — 

 Lord Falmouth's Blanchland. Then he ran 

 second in the Ascot Cup to Bird of Freedom. 

 After that we sold him for ;^3000 to Mr. E. H. 

 Benzon, better known to the public as the 

 ** Jubilee Plunger/* because of his reckless 

 gambling on the Turf in Jubilee year. 



In 1887 the most noteworthy of the horses 

 at Kingsclere, after Ormonde, was the two-year- 

 old Friar's Balsam. Bred by Lord Alington, 

 he was a chestnut colt by Hermit out of Flower 

 of Dorset. That season he ran seven times, was 

 unbeaten, and collected stakes to the value of 

 ;^8666. I may, indeed, state right away that I 

 regarded Friar's Balsam as a " smasher." He 

 did enough to prove this; he would have done 

 more still but for his being hampered by a delicate 

 constitution. He first comes under notice as the 

 winner of the following trial on May 20, 1887: 

 Six Furlongs 

 Friar's Balsam, 2 yrs., 9 st. 7 lb. . . T. Cannon i 

 Mon Droit, 2 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . . Viney 2 



Challenge, 2 yrs., 8 st. ... 3 



Rose, 2 yrs., 7 st. 4 lbs. ... 4 



Won easily by a length ; two lengths between lecond and third. 



