32 PRETTY POLLY 



Hackler's Pride made the running at a strong pace 

 and for eight furlongs retained the lead, but at the 

 Bushes Pretty Polly shot to the front and, making the re- 

 mainder of the running, won as she liked by two lengths. 



Next day saw another triumph for the yellow and 

 dark blue sleeves, for Hammerkop won the Cesarewitch 

 from Merry Andrew and seventeen others. 



It is a curious coincidence that on two occasions in 

 two years in succession Hammerkop won on one day 

 and Pretty Polly the next, or vice versa. 



For Hammerkop won the Great Yorkshire Handicap 

 the day before her stable companion was successful in 

 the St. Leger, and now on the day following Pretty 

 Polly's victory in the Champion Stakes Hammerkop 

 wins the great long-distance handicap. 



A fortnight later Pretty Polly cantered home from a 

 solitary opponent, Mondamin, in the Limekiln Stakes, 

 starting at the phenomenal odds of 55 to i on. 



Her last appearance for the season took place in the 

 Jockey Club Cup of two and a quarter miles, run on 

 the Thursday of the Houghton week. 



Hammerkop had been also entered, but Pretty Polly 

 proved "Major Loder's selected" for the race, her 

 opponents being Bachelor's Button, the French filly 

 Nimay, who had run very respectably in the St. Leger, 

 and Horn Head, who was evidently in to make the 

 running for Bachelor's Button. 



