CHAPTER II 

 THE TREBLE EVENT 



DURING the winter months there was much 

 speculation in the sporting columns of the 

 Press as to how the daughter of Gallinule 

 would acquit herself as a three-year-old, and as to 

 whether or not she would " train on." 



As has been before stated, there has existed an idea 

 among many people that Gallinule's stock are unlikely 

 to stay, and consequently at this early stage of Pretty 

 Polly's career there were not a few who predicted that 

 so forward a two-year-old was not likely to train on, 

 and that although she might shine as a brilliant sprinter 

 she would fail over any longer course than six or seven 

 furlongs. 



On the other hand there were plenty of people who 

 confidently predicted that a greater than Sceptre had 

 arisen, and this opinion was given practical weight to 

 by the taking of the very narrow odds of 6 to i that 

 the filly did not win the One Thousand, Oaks, and 

 St. Leger. 



