SOME MORE NATIONALS, INCLUDING GLENSIDE'S 



animal, that is to say by the average racegoer. In dis- 

 quisitions on the race the winner was spoken of 

 somewhat slightingly, not a little so indeed, some of the 

 critics attempting to explain the result by the remark 

 that something had to win and as all the others fell that 

 something proved to be Glenside. This is an altogether 

 incorrect view, and I say so for this reason : on the 

 publication of the weights I had a long talk about the 

 coming event to Colonel Lort-Phillips. He was not at 

 that time training the horses. His partnership with 

 Mr. Bibby had terminated, and the stable was under the 

 charge of Captain Collis, the scene of action being Kinlet 

 Park, the residence of Colonel R. W. B. Fisher-Childe, 

 C.B., whose park was utilised for gallops, suitable train- 

 ing jumps being of course carefully erected. Col. Lort- 

 Phillips and myself as just remarked discussed the 

 handicap, and he had expressed a strong conviction that 

 Glenside was more than likely to beat Caubeen and win. 

 Lutteur III. was to run again, and though this time he 

 had 1 2 St. 3 lb., it could be argued that the weight was 

 not excessive. When a five-year-old, as noted on a 

 previous page, he had carried lost, ii lb., and weight 

 for age over four miles and a half would show a great 

 advance between the ages of five and seven. The scale 

 as published in the National Hunt rules does not deal 

 with this. The Committee recommend that from the 

 I St of January to the 30th of June six-year-old and aged 

 horses should give five-year-olds 9 lb. in steeplechases 



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