LA ROCHE 411 



Good Luck (the Duke of Westminster's) had 

 won the Trial Stakes at Ascot and also a race at 

 Sandown, so that, by running him to three- 

 quarters of a length on terms 1 3 lb. worse than 

 weight-for-age, Simon Dale afforded us much 

 satisfaction. Goblet, moreover, had won a 

 Biennial at Ascot. In the Ham Stakes, Simon 

 Dale had only one opponent — Mr. Arthur James's 

 The Gorgon, who was to become the dam of 

 Gorgos, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas. 

 She had won the New Stakes at Ascot, and been 

 placed third and second in her two subsequent 

 races. Nevertheless, odds of 100 to 30 were 

 laid on Simon Dale, who gave the filly 4 lb. and 

 beat her easily by two lengths. 



Simon Dale's next outing was at Doncaster, 

 where, in the Champagne Stakes, he met his 

 match in Lord William Beresford's American- 

 bred gelding Democrat. Ridden by Sloan, the 



