CHAPTER III 



SOME MORE NATIONALS, INCLUDING GLENSIDE'S 



It must be considered highly probable that with a little 

 luck Mr. Bibby would have won the Liverpool of 1909. 

 It will have been seen that he had not been in the least 

 inclined to adopt the principle of winning by sheer 

 force of purse. He had bought the horses to whom 

 he took a fancy for varying sums, occasionally for large 

 ones, but seldom for what might be considered an 

 extravagant figure. For Caubeen, a son of Chad and 

 Revenue Cutter, he had given ;^i5oo, and the idea 

 that he was a Liverpool horse seemed to be confirmed 

 by the fact that he won the Grand Sefton Steeplechase 

 in the autumn of 1908. At the time of writing 

 Caubeen is standing at Mr. Bibby's stud farm at Exning 

 near Newmarket, and it may be remarked has some 

 promising stock to his credit. The 11 st. 7 lb. allotted 

 to him in the Liverpool of 1909 was not considered 

 excessive, and indeed the result showed that his merit 

 had scarcely been exaggerated. 



This was the year when M. Robert Hennessy 

 sent over his five-year-old Lutteur III., intent on 



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