THE CORONATION CUP— AND AFTER 31 



The long rest and the unremitting attention of her 

 clever veterinary attendant resulted in a complete cure, 

 and her trainer was able to prepare her for her later 

 autumn engagements. 



In the meantime her own sister, Adula, won the 

 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster, and brought to mind 

 Pretty Polly's victory in that selfsame race twelve 

 months previously. 



Pretty Polly made her reappearance in the Champion 

 Stakes at the Second October Meeting, in which race 

 her sole opponent was the dual Cambridgeshire winner, 

 Hackler's Pride, who had lately become the property of 

 Sir Tatton Sykes, whose colours, orange with purple 

 sleeves, are but seldom seen on a racecourse nowadays. 

 She was ridden by her usual pilot, B. Dillon, D. Maher 

 being up on Pretty Polly. 



The bookmakers were content for once to trade at a 

 fairly liberal price, because, although Hackler's Pride's 

 best distance was seven furlongs, and a mile about as 

 far as she would care to go, yet it was Pretty Polly's 

 first appearance on a racecourse since the Coronation 

 Cup in June, and there was a possibility that she might 

 have lost her brilliant form. 



Also, the race was practically a match, and one can 

 never tell what may happen in a match. 



So it was possible at the close to lay as little as 5 to 2 

 on the favourite. 



