20 PRETTY POLLY 



to the consternation of all this is exactly what did not 

 happen. 



Neither horse appeared to be able to go any faster, 

 and when Cannon and Maher called on their mounts 

 neither could respond, and one missed the electrical 

 rush with which Pretty Polly had swept past her horses 

 in the Leger, just as Sceptre had swept past Rock Sand 

 in the Jockey Club Stakes a year before. 



The hopes of England and of an English triumph 

 are finally dashed to the ground, for the outsider with 

 the mauve sleeves and cap has passed the post winning 

 easily by two and a half lengths from Pretty Polly, with 

 Zinfandel half a length behind, Macdonald II four 

 lengths further off, and the remainder of the field 

 strung out in a long line. 



The numbers are hoisted — lo, 5, 3. The outsider is 

 so much an outsider that probably no foreign visitor 

 knows what he is, and all that he knows is that the 

 French have won. 



Number 10 is Presto II by Rueil out of Mile. 

 Prdfere, owned by M. Gaston Dreyfus, ridden by 

 J. Ransch, and trained by Lawrence at Maisons Lafifite. 



A 66 to I outsider had overthrown the form of both 

 France and England, and Pretty Polly had to submit to 

 the unkind fate of defeat by an immeasurably inferior 

 animal. 



Those were not the days of the " entente cordiale," 



