GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



favourite was a six-year-old named Carrig Park, who 

 had taken kindly to the business though he had only 

 competed in unimportant events, and must have been 

 greatly overestimated. A big chestnut gelding named 

 Chang who followed him in the market was lacking in 

 class and weighted accordingly, having only a couple 

 of pounds above the minimum. Vermouth appeared 

 to be particularly well treated, having only as it were a 

 71b. penalty for winning in 19 16, but it was too much 

 for him. As for Thowl Pin it was so long since he had 

 done anything that his friends were inclined to despair, 

 and he figured among the " 40 to i others." The race 

 went to a good sportsman in Sir George Bullough by 

 the aid of Ballymacad, a son of Laveno, who had made 

 some name for himself on the flat, and of Ballymacarney, 

 already mentioned as the dam of several well known 

 'chasers including Ballyhackle. Ballymacad had never 

 been reckoned a good horse, prior to this Gatwick race 

 I cannot make out that he had won since the March of 

 1 91 2, a truly disheartening spell of failure ; but he had 

 been a distinctly useful five-year-old, and at the age of 

 eleven seemed to be tardily recovering a little of his 

 old form. 



1917. GATWICK. 



•• WAR NATIONAL " CHASE (Handicap) of £1065 ; 4 miles 



856 yds. 

 Sir Geo. Bullough's Ballymacad, a. by 



Laveno, 9 st. 12 lbs. - - - - E. Driscoll i 



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