420 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Cheri, Cap and Bells II., First Principal, and 

 Volodyovski. Very seldom does the Ascot Cup 

 bring out so big a " constellation." At Epsom 

 that year Lord Wolverton's Osboch had won 

 the Coronation Cup, beating Volodyovski, 

 Santoi, Black Sand, and King's Courier; at 

 Kempton, the same week, Santoi won the Corona- 

 tion Commemoration Stakes, beating Volod- 

 yovski, Floriform, Pietermaritzburg, and Pistol; 

 First Principal had that year won the City and 

 Suburban Handicap; in the autumn Black Sand 

 was returned the winner of the Cesarewitch; 

 King's Courier was a Doncaster Cup winner ; 

 Volodyovski and Cap and Bells II. were, respect- 

 ively, winners of the Derby and Oaks ; La 

 Camargo was a winner of the French Oaks and 

 of the Grand Prize of Baden, and one of the best 

 stayers ever bred in France ; Cheri had won the 

 French Two Thousand and the Grand Prix de 

 Paris. 



The Duke of Portland's Mannlicher was sent 

 to the post to make a good pace for William 

 the Third, and the formality of declaring to win 

 with William was adopted. This was, perhaps, 

 a needless precaution. By Carbine out of the 

 Oaks winner Memoir, Mannlicher was a fairly 

 useful horse, but not in the same class as 

 William the Third. It is worth while repro- 

 ducing the report of this race from the 

 Calendar : 



