396 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Flying Fox was the last of the seven 

 horses I saddled to win the Derby. My 

 " record " for the greatest of races is : seven 

 wins, eight seconds, two thirds, and seven 

 unplaced. 



In the Princess of Wales's Stakes of ;£io,ooo 

 at the Newmarket First July Meeting we ran 

 Flying Fox and also Lord Alington*s Royal 

 Emblem. The latter was a three-year-old colt 

 by Royal Hampton out of Thistle, and therefore 

 half-brother to Common. This was his first 

 race, and we had no reason for thinking highly 

 of his chance. On May 15 he was tried 

 over a mile and finished third, at level weights, 

 to the four-year-old Calveley and the three-year- 

 old Frontier, beaten a length and half a length. 

 Flying Fox in the Princess of Wales's Stakes gave 

 Royal Emblem, who finished second, 17 lb. and 

 beat him three lengths. The four-year-old Ninus, 

 giving Flying Fox 6 lb., came in third, two 

 lengths away. 



At Sandown Park, on July 14, Flying Fox 

 won the Eclipse Stakes, the Duke's Frontier, 

 receiving 3 lb., finishing second, beaten a length. 

 The Duke gave the stakes won by Flying Fox, 

 on this occasion amounting to fy^S^, to the 

 Royal Alexandra Hospital at Rhyl, North Wales. 

 A presentment of a fox, which serves as a weather- 

 vane on the roof of the institution, commemorates 

 the gift, which was promised to a deputation of 



