CHAPTER IV 

 THE CORONATION CUP— AND AFTER 



THE Coronation Cup is run over the Derby 

 course on the Thursday in the Epsom 

 Summer weelc. 



It usually attracts few runners but these are generally 

 of the highest class, and the year 1905 was no excep- 

 tion to the rule when three runners faced the starter, 

 M. Edmond Blanc's Caius, Lord Howard de Walden's 

 Zinfandel, and Major Eustace Loder's Pretty Polly. 



Caius had some excellent French form to recommend 

 him and had run fifth in Hackler's Pride's second Cam- 

 bridgeshire, but it was considered that the race lay 

 between the other two. 



The result of the race in Paris may possibly have 

 caused waverers to think that the half-length difference 

 between the pair might now be reversed, though 

 this opinion could only be seriously advanced by those 

 who maintained that the mare gave her true running on 

 that occasion. 



Perhaps the bookmakers may have started with this 



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