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TWO EXTRAORDINARY HANDICAP FEATS. How Bendigo and Minting Won the Kempton Jubilee Under Heavy Imposts. There ar- sum races which enjoy a speeial note riety for great handicap perform a net s. and an in-StCBCe in point is the Kempton Park .lubilee Stakes. Which was instituted thirty years ago. The San-dow.i Park Eclipse Stakes, the pleaatr of the 10,000 sovereign races, had been inaugurated in the year iinn.i di.itely preceding, sad by a curious coincidence both wi re won by Bendigo. Apportioned the steadier of 133 pounds, ami with Watts up. tlie "Hold l.endi" enjoyed a fractional favoritism ovi r sv Mirin, which, however, had nothing to do with the finish, which saw Mr. Barclays bane a winner Iron. Martley. to which he was giving thirty-seven iHiiinds. ami which enhanced the form within three weeks by running third to Merry Hampton aid The Itaroi for the Derby. It was a fine pi if irmanoe on tlie part of Hen Battle* ln-st son. but was put completely in the shade in tiie following WHO* by Minting, then : live year- Id. which had to shouhh r 140 pounds, but still started a pronounced favorite and. better still, won in a canter m the hands of lred Webb, who, I regret to say. is just now in indifferent health. As they came streaming round tic bead, ol.lder held such a commanding lead that it seemed impossible he could lie caught, but the moment his head was straight for honi". Mint-iugs enormia- ■tilde, told with such rapid effect tiiat. the differ nee of forty eight pounds notwithstanding, he was on fighting terms at the distance, and eventually won in magnificent style by three leaartha. Herein, anil not to mention Bendigo, was a collateral tribute to the .iiper-cxci Hence of Ormonde. Which bot only slammed the son of Lord Lyon in the Two Thousand Guineas, bat repeated the dose ;is a four-year ell. v. hen lie was a confirmed roarer, in the Bardwkhe stages :.t ascot. Fred Archer would hue had to ride Minting had he run for the Derby, and so have beea deprived cf the mount on the Duke of Wcstminstt rs champion, but. with his intimate knowledge of both horses, that arrangement was so little to his fancy that he persuaded Mr. V.vner not to attempt the impossible at Kpsom. but to keep his bans fresli for the Grand Prize of 1aris. which, of course, lie won easily, and thus enabled •the Tinman" to ride the winners of both the Kng-liah and French Blue Ribands. Ormonde and Minting wan two wivordin.uy three-year-olds to come in .in.- seas ei. sad -uei high -class contemporaries as lhe Bard and Saraband were dwarfed by compnri son. but. for all that, it can only be a matt r of conjecture as to which of Ormonde and St. Simon was tlie better. Suffice it that neither was ever beaten, and both were "horses of the century. — "Vigilant," in London IT|Wll*ana
