Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . the Derby, whichhe won, with Peregrine second and Town 74 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER Moor third. He then won the Prince ofWales Stake at Ascot, with 131 poundsup, and the St. James Palace Ascot and the Leger he wastrained in an erratic manner which did notat all please the touts. The odds againsthim the night before the race were ten toone. He won the race easily. Between the Leger and the Champion \Stakes, in the second October meeting,the horse was allowed to loaf, and he wasbeaten by the great Bend Or. Puryearlooke
Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . the Derby, whichhe won, with Peregrine second and Town 74 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER Moor third. He then won the Prince ofWales Stake at Ascot, with 131 poundsup, and the St. James Palace Ascot and the Leger he wastrained in an erratic manner which did notat all please the touts. The odds againsthim the night before the race were ten toone. He won the race easily. Between the Leger and the Champion \Stakes, in the second October meeting,the horse was allowed to loaf, and he wasbeaten by the great Bend Or. Puryearlooked the horse over after the race, andtold Pincus that, as he had supposed, thehorse was very short of work, and that, ifhe wanted him to win the NewmarketStakes the following day, he had bettergive him a sweating gallop at once. Hewas blanketed, and sent for a spin behindthe stand, much to the horror of thetalent. He won his race the following day. This ended a most successful Cherry Jacket won more money thatseason than any other stable in FRED ARCHER The best jockey of bis day HOW THE DERBY WAS WON 75 Mr. Lorillard won £12,000 on the the yearlings had been backed in the100 to 1 book except Iroquois, for, being asmall yearling, it had not been thoughtworth while to include him. The follow-ing year Iroquois was given fast work be-fore he was properly seasoned, and bled, sodid not start. As a five-year-old he wastrained by Tom Cannon, who found himdiflScult to train, owing to his ran second to Tristan in the HardwickeStakes, and won the Stockbridge being a private meeting, onlymembers of the club are allowed to makeentries. The Prince of Wales had thecourtesy to enter Iroquois for Mr. July the horse was sent back toAmerica. It was the summer when thegreat races were run at Monmouth Parkbetween Eole, Freeland, Miss Woodford,and George Kinney at a mile and a quarterand a mile and a half. Although Cannonhad been
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