30 PRETTY POLLY 



tween Zinfandel and Pretty Polly shows incontestably 

 how untrue that form was. 



It now appeared merely a question of health for 

 her to succeed in adding the jewels to her Epsom 

 crown, and to set the final seal to her undying fame 

 by winning the Ascot Gold Cup, and so it may well 

 indeed have been, but her chance of victory in the 

 greatest long-distance weight for age contest in the 

 world was unavoidably deferred. 



For a few days after her sensational success in the 

 Coronation Cup the racing world was electrified by 

 the news that she had met with an accident at 

 exercise, and for six weeks or more her name was absent 

 from the training reports. 



That she would easily have appropriated the Gold 

 Cup on this occasion can scarcely be doubted, as Zin- 

 fandel, whom she so crushingly defeated at Epsom, 

 won in a canter from Maximum II and Throwaway in 

 record time. 



The accident which had so unfortunately befallen 

 Pretty Polly was a severe strain to the muscles of her 

 quarters, and is believed to have originated when pull- 

 ing up after an exercise gallop. 



It was, at first, believed that the strain was of a very 

 serious nature, and certain papers published very pes- 

 simistic reports as to her condition, and freely opined 

 that she had run her last race. 



