36 PRETTY POLLY 



of one bookmaker to bet looo to 35 that Pretty Polly- 

 was not second remained unheeded. 



The race needs little description. 



Mondamin, on the left, made the running from 

 Pretty Polly, in the centre, and His Majesty to the 

 Bushes, where Pretty Polly was allowed to stride to 

 the front, and making the remainder of the running, 

 attended by Mondamin and His Majesty, she won in a 

 canter by two lengths, four lengths separating second 

 and third. 



It was a race of no great importance seemingly, but 

 although none could have foreseen it, it was the last 

 time that Pretty Polly was to run at Newmarket. 



For the very last time she re-entered the Birdcage 

 amid the admiring comments of the bystanders, and as 

 she passed out of the gate at the further end there passed 

 out of the active history of Newmarket Racecourse 

 the mare of all the centuries, who had always run to 

 win, and whose two defeats, accomplished as they were 

 when she was not herself, show forth, by the gallant 

 way in which she struggled on against hopeless odds, 

 that in her failures she was perhaps even more gloriously 

 triumphant than in all her victories. 



Pretty Polly's next engagement was in the Corona- 

 tion Cup at Epsom, a race to be ever memorable by 

 reason of what was perhaps her greatest victory in that 

 selfsame event twelve months before. 



