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of the Jockey Club Stand, hat in hand, the 

 surging crowd that had swarmed on to the race- 

 track fervently sang the National Anthem. 



At Ascot, Simon Dale won the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes in a canter from some moderate 

 opponents ; but three days later he was easily, and 

 unaccountably, beaten in the Hardwicke Stakes. 

 His only other race that season was in the Eclipse 

 Stakes, won by Diamond Jubilee ; he finished 

 fourth. He did not run again, and died in 1902. 



Elopement, who finished first in the gallop 

 when Simon Dale and La Roche were tried, 

 was a colt by Right-away bred and raced by Mr. 

 W. M. Low. As a two-year-old he won the 

 Windsor Castle Stakes at Ascot, and the Clearwell 

 at Newmarket, and the following year carried 

 off the September Stakes at Sandown Park, as 

 well as the Union Jack Stakes at Liverpool in 

 the spring. He was placed fourth in the Two 

 Thousand Guineas (for which he started favourite) 

 and also in the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood. 

 Ultimately he went to Germany, where he was 

 a fairly successful sire. 



I now come to William the Third, a horse 

 of whom I cherish very happy recollections. 

 Foaled in 1898, and reared at Welbeck, he 

 was a bay colt by St. Simon out of Gravity, by 

 Wisdom out of Enigma. Gravity was bred by 

 the late Mr. A. Hoole, a farmer at Hinnington 

 near Shifnal, in Shropshire. Mr. Hoole's first 



