GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



successful elsewhere. My friend Mr. Gwyn Saunders- 

 Davies used to " go round " on her, and once T see that 

 at Cardiff in a steeplechase worth £24. some adven- 

 turous spirits took 6 to i about her and lost their 

 money. 



At the same time an animal called Ringthorpe, a 

 four-year-old in 1895, was carrying the green and yellow 

 sleeves, and of him it may be said that he was certainly 

 well bred, being a son of Althorp, who won the Ascot 

 Cup of 1886, and Ringlet, who was a notable steeple- 

 chase mare in her day. Ringthorpe had a busy time of 

 it at the beginning of his four-year-old career, and he 

 began early, no later than January, when he was third 

 for a little steeplechase at Tenby, four runners ; third 

 again next afternoon, beaten only a short head and a 

 neck ; second for a hurdle race in Carmarthenshire a 

 week later, and then attempted a more ambitious test, 

 for he started for the National Hunt Juvenile Steeple- 

 chase at Hurst Park in February, the National Hunt, it 

 will be understood, having held their annual meeting 

 on that course. He was not in the first three, which 

 can hardly have surprised his backers, if he had any, as 

 he was not priced in the market, nor indeed does it 

 seem that he ever displayed much promise, though some 

 of the tasks set him were beyond question severe, as, for 

 instance, in the Great Shropshire Steeplechase at 

 Ludlow, a ^500 race, which Mr. Saunders-Davies won 

 on no less an animal than the mighty Cloister. He was 



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