SOME LIVERPOOLS, INCLUDING KIRKLAND'S 



certainly giving Ringthorpe 3 St., though weight for age 

 wiped off two-thirds of this, and it is not in the least 

 astonishing that Ringthorpe did not show up. In the 

 autumn of that year he was sent to Tenby, and here his 

 capacity was precisely estimated in the Tenby Steeple- 

 chase over the Flying Course ; Mayflower, an even 

 money favourite, won by a length from Popgun, 3 to i, 

 Ringthorpe, 4 to i, another length behind. Ringthorpe 

 seems to have had an extraordinary habit of running 

 third, for he occupied the same place next afternoon in 

 the Grand Stand Steeplechase, moving up one at Cardiff 

 in December, when second to Popgun. One race he 

 did carry off, and that was the Meynell Point-to-Point, 

 an event which friends of the late Sir Peter Walker and 

 visitors to Osmaston, of whom many of us have such 

 pleasant recollections, will certainly not forget, for 

 interest in it was always great. Ringthorpe, moreover, 

 did win at what may be called a recognised meeting, 

 the Pembroke Hunt, where Mr. Saunders-Davies 

 got him home as a five-year-old for the Stewards' 

 Plate. 



I think I am right in saying that Mr. Bibby was largely 

 induced to take to racing in 1899 on a more ambitious 

 scale in a great measure because his friend Lieutenant- 

 Colonel (then Mr.) F. Lort-Phillips, of Lawrenny, 

 Pembrokeshire, undertook to train horses for him ; 

 indeed, the association may be described as a partnership, 

 for it was understood that Mr. Lort-Phillips would take 

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