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1- an ,n id ■d L of f »r h- al m iy id •i- the 11 er r- ly a a In in „ the . 11 "; J,i be H ? to to ARD PATRICK A GRAND RACER. . Creat credit attached to Volodyovski when he won from William the Third, but had to knock under to Doricles in the St. Leger, and a still better horse was revealed in Ard Patrick, a slash-it ing half-brother to Galtee More, which opened his account bv winning the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton after a hard fight with Royal Lancer. next won the Clearwell Stakes, and then failed by a neck to beat Game Chick in the Dewhurst Plate. He did not begin well as a three-year-ie old. only running third for the Two Thousand: beaten for another race, he w:ts disqualified in favor of Fowling-piece after passing the post a head in front for the Newmarket Stakes, but he made no mistake in the Derby, which he won easily from Rising Glass. Friar Tuck and Sceptre, thereby giving Martin a lucky chance winning mount." The Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot was his next essay, and was won by Cupbearer, receiving fifteen pounds, but unfortunately he floundered in a patch of new ground/ which caused him to swerve on to Ard Patrick, and as the result of an objection for bumping and boring be was dis-, qualified. It was as a four-year-old that Mr. Gub-.! bins horse asserted himself as a champion, for though he ran but twice lie left such as Royal Lancer. Cheers and Fowling-piece a long way in the lurch for the Princess of Wales Stakes, and then won the Eclipse Stakes after an exciting race with Sceptre. That finished his career in England. as he was afterwards sold to go to Cermany.
