THE COMING OF POLLY 3 



As a two-year-old she showed tremendous quality of 

 build for that early age. 



The one thing which impresses any one looking at 

 her more than anything else is her wonderful quarters, 

 which give her that extraordinary leverage power which 

 caused spectators to imagine that she was merely 

 cantering when her opponents were galloping their 

 very hardest. 



The daughter of Admiration was bred by her owner, 

 Major Eustace Loder, at his stud farm in Ireland, 

 Eyrefield Lodge. 



Her dam was singularly unsuccessful as a racehorse, 

 a fact, by the way, which is not seldom the case with 

 dams of great horses, and it certainly does not follow 

 as a matter of course that a mare of great racing repu- 

 tation achieves a success on going to the stud. 



Gallinule, her sire, had previously got stock who 

 shone rather as sprinters than stayers, although Rock 

 Dove, a Cesarewitch winner, was a notable exception ; 

 but the victories of Hammerkop and of the subject of 

 these pages over a distance of ground have effectually 

 disposed of the fallacy that Gallinules cannot stay. 



Pretty Polly was trained at Clarehaven Lodge, New- 

 market, by Mr. Peter Purcell Gilpin, who has achieved 

 such wonderful successes with the mares under his 

 care. 



In addition to Pretty Polly, other mares that have 



