4 PRETTY POLLY 



achieved distinction under his control during the past 

 two or three years, are Adula, winner of the Park Hill 

 Stakes, Doncaster ; Hammerkop, winner of the Cesare- 

 witch, 1905 ; and Flair, winner of the One Thousand 

 Guineas, 1906. 



Following on her success at the Second Summer 

 Meeting at Sandown Park, Pretty Polly annexed the 

 Mersey Stakes at Liverpool, her solitary opponent on 

 this occasion being the Navaretta colt. 



The next time that she carried the yellow, dark blue 

 sleeves, and black cap of her owner was in the rich 

 Champagne Stakes, run on the opening afternoon of 

 the Doncaster September Meeting. 



Her chief opponent on this occasion was reckoned to 

 be Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's bay colt St. Amant, by 

 St. Frusquin out of Lady Loverule, who was con- 

 sidered to be the best two-year-old of his year among 

 the colts, having up to then run twice and earned 

 winning brackets on each occasion. 



There was not much between them in the betting, 

 Pretty Polly being in fractionally greater request at 

 II to 10, whilst 6 to 4 was laid against St. Amant. 



W. Lane for the first time rode the flying filly, 

 Halsey having had the mount on the last two days she 

 was out, and the winning connection between these two 

 continued until poor Lane's accident in the autumn of 

 the following year rendered a separation inevitable. 



