314 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



amiable disposition. The first mention of him 

 in my " Trial Book occurs under the date 

 June 14, 1889, when the following test gallop 

 was recorded: 



Six Furlongs 



Lozenge, 2 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . . .1 



Blue Green, 2 yrs., 9 st. 3 lb. . . . 2 



Sainfoin, 2 yrs., 9 st. 3 lb. . . .3 



Orwell, 2 yrs., 9 st. 3 lb. . . .4 



(Four others were in the gallop.) 



Won by three-quarters of a length ; the same 

 between second and third. 



The trial was probably arranged mainly for the 

 purpose of testing Blue Green, for five days later 

 he started second favourite for the Triennial at 

 Ascot, only to run unplaced. It was, indeed, 

 not until the autumn that Blue Green came to 

 himself. At Stockbridge he was third in the 

 Hurstbourne Stakes, and at York second in the 

 Prince of Wales's Plate ; but at the Newmarket 

 Houghton Meeting he won the Criterion Stakes, 

 and ran a dead -heat with Vermilion for the 

 Houghton Stakes. 



Sainfoin's first race in public was for the 

 Astley Stakes at Lewes in August. I wrote to 

 Sir Robert Jardine to inform him I thought of 

 starting the colt in that event, and that in my 

 opinion he had a very good chance of winning. 

 Sir Robert afterwards told me my letter quite 

 surprised him; he had entirely forgotten he had 



