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! I I , : , • ". I [ I , 1 : 1 : - • f ? i . - - . - - 9 - - ■ " s v u g "JOE" CANNONS VIEW OF NOTED HORSES. Chatting alxml old times, I gathered from Joseph Cannon that Petrarch, in spite of having won the St. I.eg.r and the Ascot Gold Cup. was not in reality a great stayer, hut a veritable smasher as a iniler. which was singularlv unlucky when beaten under a mountain of weight by Snail for he Liver- jmhiI Cup. and still more so when his stable coin panioii. Advance, nearly knocked him down at the moment when he was coming to secure the Citv and Suburban won hy Sefton. which just aqoeeaed hoase by a head and .afterwards won the Derby, and to which In- was giving no less Ihan .".l |xu;mls. Pet-I rareh. was bred by the late Mr. John Goaden— Who raced uuder the lioin de course of Mr. Spencer — aud was hv Lord Clifden out of that wonderful Orlando mare which produced among others, Kraulein Lein-r nos, Portomartyr and Rotberbill, of which the last-- named was, perhaps, the best, but turned a roarer after, as an Immediate consequence of running for the Woodcote Stakes a! Bpaom. As to which was the best twoyeai old ever trained by Cannon opinion is divided between Lord Roseberys Keimease and the late Mr. Abingtons Meddler, both being of exceptionally high class. The former was a beau! if ul mar.- by Cremoine — Hazledean. and acquired as a foal, if I remember rightly, from her breeder, Mr. II. Chaplin. She was only beaten once in her first aeeaaa, when in the attempt I., gtre four pounds each lo Dutch Oven and St. Marguerite she was beaten a head hv the one. and ran a dead-beat with the otlter for the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood, but was afterwards amply avenged on both. Her victories embraced the Stanley Stakes at Enema, the New at Ascot, the July at Newmarket, the Champagne at Doneaster. and the Middle Park Plate, and she went into winter quarters confidently expected to take the Allies .lassies in the following year. Fate decreed otherwise, for early in the spring, while cantering only, she split both her pasterns, an extraordinary occurrence, and did not appear again until late in the autumn, when she ran a dead-beat with Nellie for the Select Stakes, and afterwards won the New market Oaks. Strange lo any, she was a complete failure at the si ml. Meddler was by St. Gatien — Bnaybody, and ran but three times, winning in succession the British Dominion two Year-Old Stakes at Sandown Park, the Chesterfield al New - market and the K.-whuist Plate. A few days prior to the last named race he had a bad attack of colic, and with the gr id terribly deep. Cannon had he had his way. would have kept him in the stable, but he had been so well tried with Porridge, which al the time was winning sprint races under top weights, that his owner decided to chance it. and although the award was only a half length, he heat Itiehurn in a trot. No doubt he was a real top-aawyer and had a splendid chance of winning the classics. Isinglass notwithstanding, but his nominations were rendered void by the death of Mi. Ahington during his ill-fated visit to America, whither Meddler afterwards went for atml purposes. — "Vigilant." in London Sportsman.
