38 PRETTY POLLY 



Pretty Polly was in grand condition and exceptionally 

 fit and well in herself. 



The Ring, after asking in vain for extravagant odds, 

 were content to take 1 1 to 2, this price being booked 

 against St. Amant, while 33 to i was offered against 

 Achilles. 



For about a quarter of a mile Pretty Polly held a 

 slight lead of Achilles, when St. Amant took second 

 place. 



So they ran till about six furlongs from home, when 

 St. Amant dropped back and Achilles raced up along- 

 side the leader. 



It was worth witnessing, the gallantly determined 

 but absolutely ineffectual way in which the three-year- 

 old tried to get on terms with his great opponent, but 

 the momentary effort made no impression on the favour- 

 ite, who, gradually drawing away, won as she liked by 

 a length and a half, in the same time as the Derby 

 record of her stable companion, 2 mins. 36* sees. 



Doubtless had she been needed to do so she would 

 have broken her own record of the previous year, 2 mins. 

 33t sees., which remains, and will probably for all time 

 remain, the record time in which the mile and a half, 

 which constitutes the course over which the Derby is 

 run, has been covered. 



On returning to scale Pretty Polly was received with 

 an outburst of cheering, and few who witnessed that 



