PRETTY POLLY 



CHAPTER I 

 THE COMING OF POLLY 



SANDOWN PARK was looking its very best on 

 Saturday, June 27th, 1903, the concluding after- 

 noon of the First Summer Meeting, a date to be 

 ever memorable in the annals of the Turf, for this per- 

 fect summer's day was to witness the ddbut of a filly 

 whose name is now writ exceeding large in history, and 

 whose equal as a racehorse the present generation has 

 never seen and, it is safe to add, never will see. 



The race chosen to be the first essay in public of the 

 chestnut daughter of Gallinule and Admiration, known 

 as Pretty Polly, was the British Dominion Two- Year- 

 Old Race, and it is the only race in all her long career 

 for which she has not started first favourite, that 

 position being occupied by Sir John Thursby's colt, 

 John o' Gaunt, who started at 2 to i, Mr. Musker's Jack 

 Hawthorn being second in demand at 7 to 2, the Duke 



