GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



Ludlow in 1912, the son of Karma and Cute being then 

 a four-year-old. He encountered Col. Lort-Phillips's 

 Sweet HacknesSj a well bred daughter of Hackler and 

 Sweet Coquette, who started favourite and beat the colt 

 by a couple of lengths. The Babe did not run over 

 fences that season, though he was out two or three times 

 in hurdle races, his first attempt in a steeplechase being 

 at Sandown the following February, when he was 

 apparently not expected to win and created no surprise ; 

 but as a five-year-old he gratified his owner by standing 

 up for the Stanley Steeplechase at the Liverpool Spring 

 Meeting. He was not at all fancied, but nine of the 

 eleven starters fell or refused, Ilston and Jacobus 

 amongst them, and The Babe followed Lord Derby's 

 Axle Pin safely at a distance of four lengths. This was 

 certainly encouraging, for to jump Liverpool was just 

 what he was specially required to do, and in the autumn 

 he again exhibited his capacity in this direction by 

 winning the Valentine Steeplechase, he being the only 

 one of half a dozen starters who did not fall — unless to 

 be meticulously accurate I note that Flaxseed was 

 pulled up. 



The year 19 15 was and will always be memorable for 

 the fact that the last Liverpool prior to the break, the 

 last for a number of years which at the time of writing 

 cannot be specified, took place in its proper home. At 

 this period racing in general was rather chaotic. It was 

 understood that a number of meetings would be can- 



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