LA ROCHE 409 



Thousand Guineas and finished fourth to Diamond 

 Jubilee. Two days later La Roche, a 100 to 

 8 chance, ran fourth in the One Thousand, 

 beaten by Winifreda, Inquisitive, and Vain 

 Duchess. We did not try her again before the 

 Oaks, her next race. Over the longer distance 

 I was quite prepared to see her give a better 

 display than she did at Newmarket. Nor was 

 I disappointed, for she won the Oaks, and 

 easily too, beating Merry Gal (dam of White 

 Eagle) by three lengths, with Lady Schomberg 

 third. Winifreda and Inquisitive were both 

 unplaced. 



Then came the Manchester Cup. For this 

 she was handicapped at 6 st. 11 lb., but a 10 lb. 

 penalty, incurred by winning the Oaks, raised 

 her weight to 7 st. 9 lb. Even so, she started 

 favourite at 7 to 4, and won in a canter by six 

 lengths. La Roche was indeed a clinker over 

 a mile and a half at that time. 



At York, in August, she won the Yorkshire 

 Oaks (a mile and a half), giving no less than 1 9 lb. 

 to Inquisitive and 5 lb. to Vain Duchess, both 

 of whom had beaten her over a mile at level 

 weights in the spring. She then started an 

 odds on favourite for the Don caster Cup (2 

 miles) in September, but just failed to give 7 lb. 

 to King*s Courier and 10 lb. to Merry Gal. 

 The Newmarket Oaks was merely a canter for 

 her, and her last race was the Cambridgeshire 



