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and the Molecomb Stakes. She ran only once 

 more that season — in the Champagne Stakes at 

 Doncaster. This race is of special interest in 

 view of what happened the following year. La 

 Fleche won by a length and a half from Mr. 

 Noel Fenwick*s Gossoon. Then, beaten six 

 lengths, came Wisdom's son. Sir Hugo, who 

 was destined to win a sensational Derby. The 

 four races won by La Fleche as a two-year-old 

 were worth £341 S- No further evidence was 

 needed to prove that Baron Hirsch was well 

 advised when he gave 5500 guineas for the 

 daughter of St. Simon. 



In the meantime Ormc had made a successful 

 debut on the Turf. He was the fifth foal pro- 

 duced by St. Simon's sister, Angelica. The 

 mare was sent, with other yearlings bred by 

 Prince Batthyany, to be sold at Newmarket 

 in July 1880. Mr. Taylor Sharpe, the breeder 

 of Galopin, bought her for fifty guineas! It 

 was not, however, until St. Simon had revealed 

 his brilliance that the great bargain secured by 

 Mr. Sharpe became apparent. Angelica did not 

 race ; whether she was ever in training I cannot 

 say. She was put to the stud as a three-year- 

 old, and in 1883 and 1884 bred fillies to Glendale 

 and Coeruleus. There was no produce from her 

 in either of the two following years. It would 

 be in 1886 that she passed into the possession 

 of the Duke of Westminster, for in 1887 she 



