4IO JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



of that year. She was called upon to carry 8 st. 

 1 1 lb. and failed, the nine furlongs not being 

 far enough to enable her to show to advantage. 

 La Roche was unquestionably a high-class filly, 

 especially when running over her best distance. 

 The Duke of Portland now acquired from Lord 

 Berkeley Paget his half share, and La Roche 

 went to the stud at Welbeck. Among the 

 several winners she has bred are Cannobie and 

 Sir Berkeley, and also Almissa who went to 

 Australia, where he won the Australian Cup and 

 other races. 



Manners, a bay colt by St. Simon out of 

 Tact, was one of the Duke of Portland's horses 

 that came to Kingsclere in the autumn of 1898. 

 He was then a two-year-old and had been beaten 

 in six races. We raced him three times as a 

 three-year-old. At Ascot he won the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes and ran second to Ninus in the 

 Hardwicke Stakes ; while at York, in August, 

 he captured the Great Yorkshire Stakes. After 

 three unsuccessful outings the following year, 

 he was sold and went to Germany. Manners 

 was a good stayer, but as a racehorse only a 

 second-rater. 



Among the first batch of yearlings that came 

 to me from Welbeck was the brown colt Simon 

 Dale, by St. Simon out of Ismay, a daughter of 

 Isonomy. With a view to his fulfilling an 

 engagement in the Ham Stakes at Goodwood — 



