33^ JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Windgall was a colt by Galliard, owned by Baron 

 Hirsch. At the beginning of April he ran third 

 for the Althorp Park Stakes at Northampton. 

 Five weeks later he won at Kempton Park 

 the Spring Two- Year-Old Stakes, worth nearly 

 ;^27oo, beating The Smew, Bushey Park, and 

 several others; and the following week carried 

 off the Breeders* Plate at Newmarket. Massacre, 

 a three-year-old colt by Muncaster, had on June 

 1 6 easily won a race over five furlongs at 

 Windsor. The " tackle " was therefore pretty 

 good. 



It was in the Chesterfield Stakes at New- 

 market, on July 1 6, that La Fl^che made her 

 first public appearance. She started favourite, 

 with odds of 6 to 4 laid against her. Bona Vista 

 and Lady Hermit, two of her four opponents, 

 were, however, also freely backed. The former 

 had won the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom, and 

 Lady Hermit, owned by Colonel North, had won 

 the Foal Stakes at Manchester, the Great Surrey 

 Plate at Epsom, and the Hurstbourne Stakes at 

 Stockbridge — all valuable races. La Fl^che was, 

 then, " taking something on,'* but she emerged 

 from the ordeal with colours flying, beating 

 Lady Hermit two lengths, with Bona Vista third, 

 three-quarters of a length away. Her next two 

 outings were at Goodwood, where she won the 

 Lavant Stakes, beating Sir Blundell Maple's 

 Priestess (who cost 4000 guineas as a yearling). 



