ORME AND LA FLfeCHE 3S3 



Orme ran four times as a four-year-old. At 

 Ascot he won the Rous Memorial Stakes, at 

 Sandown the Eclipse Stakes a second time, and 

 at Goodwood the Gordon Stakes; but at the 

 Newmarket Houghton Meeting in October he 

 was beaten three-quarters of a length by Sir 

 Blundell Maple's colt Childwick (who cost 6000 

 guineas as a yearling) in the Limekiln Stakes 

 over the Rowley Mile. He was trying to give 

 Childwick 23 lb., or 26 lb. more than the weight- 

 for-age allowance ! Even so, odds of 5 to 4 

 were laid on Orme. The following year Child- 

 wick won the Cesarewitch in a canter. Both in 

 the Eclipse at Sandown and in the Gordon 

 Stakes at Goodwood Orme met La Fl^che, now 

 trained by Dick Marsh. At Sandown he was 

 giving the customary sex allowance. The mare 

 finished three and a half lengths behind him, 

 the pair being divided by Baron Rothschild's 

 Medicis, who ran Orme to half a length. La 

 Fl^che looked very well that day, but gave a 

 disappointing show and was beaten half a mile 

 from home. At Goodwood she shaped much 

 better, for, giving 7 lb., Orme beat her a neck 

 only. 



In the autumn of that season Orme's legs 

 began to give trouble, and at Newmarket, in the 

 race in which Childwick beat him, a suspensory 

 ligament gave way. That misfortune brought 

 his career on the Turf to an end, and he retired 



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