436 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Hammerkop four lengths; and at the beginning 

 of September the Champion Breeders' Stakes at 

 Derby. After the second trial, which must have 

 been with a view to testing the merits of Littleton, 

 Greatorex was beaten a head for the Middle 

 Park Plate by Flotsam, Rock Sand coming in 

 third. There can, however, be little doubt that 

 the form, so far as Rock Sand was concerned, was 

 all wrong, for in the Dewhurst Plate, a fortnight 

 later. Rock Sand won easily from King Edward's 

 Mead, Greatorex being third only. After this 

 Greatorex unfortunately went wrong in his wind, 

 and no more was seen of him on a racecourse. 

 He went to South Africa, where he has done 

 extremely well at the stud. 



Littleton only ran once as a two-year-old — 

 at the Newmarket Second October Meeting, an 

 hour after Greatorex had so nearly won the 

 Middle Park Plate. He was strongly backed to 

 win a Maiden T.Y.O. Plate, but ran badly, 

 Caravel winning in a canter, with Littleton 

 unplaced. The following year, however, Little- 

 ton, who had won a five-furlong trial on June 

 12, captured the Trial Plate at Ascot. In the 

 autumn of that year he won in succession the 

 Great Tom Plate at Lincoln, the Derby Gold 

 Cup, and the Final Plate at Manchester. After 

 Mr. Low's death, Littleton, a good little horse 

 with a nice turn of speed, was acquired by my 

 friend Mr. Oscar W. Rayner, and has since 



