430 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



year-old he won the Tudor Plate at Sandown 

 Park, the Durham Produce Stakes at Stockton, 

 and the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket, the 

 three prizes making a total of nearly ^^9000. 

 In the Jockey Club Stakes he defeated Epsom 

 Lad six lengths, with Diamond Jubilee third, 

 another four lengths away. In the St. Leger, 

 Pietermaritzburg ran fourth to Doricles, Volod- 

 yovski, and Revenue ; and in the Champion 

 Stakes at Newmarket, run over a mile and three- 

 quarters, was second to Osboch, with Doricles 

 two lengths behind him. The following year he 

 ran unplaced in the Coronation Commemoration 

 Stakes at Kempton and was second to Veles in 

 the Princess of Wales's Stakes of ^^ 10,000 at 

 Newmarket. After two or three seasons at the 

 Heath Stud, Newmarket, where he commanded 

 a fee of 25 guineas, he was sold to an Argentine 

 breeder. He was phenomenally successful as a 

 stallion in South America. In 191 1 his offspring 

 won stakes worth over ;^44,ooo. 



In 1896, after producing Flying Fox, Vampire 

 was again put to Orme and bred the filly Vane, 

 who won the Bretby Stakes as a two-year-old. 

 Then, as the result of an alliance with Grey Leg, 

 came the filly Grey Lady, who never raced. Put 

 once more to Orme, Vampire threw, in 1899, the 

 colt Flying Lemur, for whom the present Duke 

 of Westminster paid 5700 guineas at the sale of 

 his grandfather's yearlings. The youngster dis- 



