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facsimile of which, as drawn up by his owner, was 

 published in the first number of the Badminton Maga- 

 zine, he earned during his career 57,185L 



The three-year-olds of 1895 were about the very 

 worst on record. At Liverpool, when the probability of 

 the Cup being won by Telescope — by no means severely 

 handicapped — was suggested, a contemptuous rejoinder 

 was : ' Why, he is worse than Sir Yisto ! ' And Sir 

 Visto had won both the Derby and the St. Leger ! To 

 dwell on the events of such a year would be waste of 

 time. 



But while the three-year-olds of this season were thus 

 bad, there seemed some good two-year-olds, notably St. 

 Frusquin, Persimmon, Eegret, and Omladina. As for 

 the last named, as so very often happens in the case 

 of two-year-old fillies, she trained off, showed an incapa- 

 city to stay, and was indeed so great a disappointment 

 that the Duke of Westminster sold her. He sold Eegret 

 also, after the colt had shown that he had been consider- 

 ably over-rated for one thing — scarcely by his trainer, 

 however, for John Porter had never supposed that he 

 was a really good horse — and for another thing that he 

 resolutely declined to do anything but the best he could. 

 Between St. Frusquin and Persimmon, however, parti- 

 sanship ran high, and when at last they met in the 

 Middle Park Plate the event was an exciting one. Per- 

 simmon was said to have been suffering from some 

 ailment to his teeth which often affects young horses, 

 but that there was not much wrong with him was sug- 

 gested by the fact that he started a strong favourite at 

 2 to 1, odds of 4 to 1 being laid against St. Frusquin. 

 In the race, however. Persimmon was third, five lengths 

 and a half from St. Frusquin, with Opiladina a good 



