 Piggott blamed himself for her defeat but her owner the Duke of Devonshire was more forgiving in the book he wrote about Park Top “ A Romance of the Turf”

After a warm up win at Longchamp in May, Park Top was beaten into second when trying to win the Coronation Cup at Epsom for the second time.Jarred up by the firm ground at Epsom she did not race again until the Cumberland Lodge stakes at Ascot in September.She won well, but finished lame.