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ONE OF ENGLANDS COVETED RACES Famous Horses Which Contended for the Champion Stakes at Newmarket Tin course known as Across the Flat at Xew markct is a fine test for any horse as these ten furlongs take a lot of running and although not so popular an event as in its earlier days owners like winning the Champion Stakes which is run over this track It was inauiMirated in LS77 anil the entry for that year numbered no fewer than Ii7l Of these only eight faced the starter on the Thursday iu the Cesarewitch week and Mr J II llouhlsworths Springfield 4 MO pounds Tom Cannon and Lord Falmouths Silvio t IIS Fred Archer wen the pair seriously fancied each be ¬ ing an 11 to S chance They had the contest to thoinselves Springfield scoring by a rather easy length the third many lengths away being Loril Falmouths second string Great Tom 1 ISO pounds Charles Archer The prize was worth SM and the course was then seventy three yards above what it is at the present day The weightforage scale was also upon five pounds more favorable terms for a threeyearold than is the case now Kegardiug the two leaders Spring ¬ field an excellent brown son of St Albaiis bred at the Hampton Court Stud had never been de ¬ feated since running second beaten three lengths upon even terms by the Mineral colt for the first Dewhurst Plate and had won twelve races off the reel while Silvio was the Derby and St Leger winner of that year The Mineral colt later known is Kisber won with supreme ease the Derbv and Grand Prix de Paris of lS7i lS7iSpringfield Springfield bought as a yearling for I 10 guineas and always trained by James Kyan at Green Lodge Xowmnrkot ran once more for the All Aged Stakes at threequarters in the Houghton week when he conceded three pounds and a fif ¬ teen lengths beating to Feossais then six years old He had wonderful speed and could also stay iiij Kyan told me he tried him twentyeight pounds and a tremendous beating better than Colt ness over the Two Middle Miles at Newmarket Spring ¬ field began his stud duties at the place of his birth at a fee of 100 guineas and remained there for year but had been removed to Mr Ilouids worths paddocks at Newmarket some time before he became paralyzed ami was in consequence shot on Thursday March SI 1SS1S His progeny included the moderate Derby winner Sainfoin Mriarroot which flnkily beat Seabreeze for the One Thousand Guineas of 1SSS Speedwell a good but unsound horse that won the Middle Park Plate Watercress and many other winners In 1S7S when Lord Falmouths Jannette 111 pounds F Archer which had also secured the Oaks ami St Leger won bv a neck from her stable companion Silvio I 130 John Osborne the five others behind them including Petrarch and Verneuil the entry amounted to 135 and went up to Ill in 1870 but gradually the numbers began to dwindle down and the race now Hoses much nearer the time of decision than was formerly the case For this years race to be run on Tuesday October 11 only 11 have been put in including such as Allcnby Archaic Ariou Mine Dun Huchan which won in lillJI Ciceronnetta Comrade Diadem Galloper Light Galruy Guinea Gold Orpheus Perion Prince Galahad Sarchedon and Tetratema Mesides the first two Champion Stakes winners I have men ¬ tioned the list includes such notable racers as Amphion Mayardo Memligo Mend Or Friars Ial sam Gay Crusader IA Fleche Umberg My Dear Orme Ormonde Paradox Pretty Polly Kayon dOr Uobert the Devil Sceptre Tracery Tristan and Velasquez Audax in Horse and Hound
