 On 12 October he contested the Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Newmarket . He ran a dead heat with the filly <unk> , winner of the 1881 1000 Guineas and Oaks , with the St <unk> winner Dutch Oven in third . Later in the meeting he finished second to the two @-@ year @-@ old Energy in the Great Challenge Stakes . At the end of October , Tristan ran twice at the Newmarket Houghton meeting without <unk> his best form . In the <unk> <unk> he carried top weight of 130 pounds and finished seventh of the thirty @-@ one runners behind <unk> . On his final start of the year he ran in the <unk> Club Stakes over two and a quarter miles . In a closely contested four way finish he dead @-@ heated for second place with City Arab , a short head behind <unk> and a neck in front of the mare <unk> Roy . 
