GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



— Brown Ewe, a son of Brown Prince and Lambthorpe, 

 half sister to Lambay a very useful horse belonging to 

 the then Captain Murray-Thriepland. She was not as 

 good as she looked, and Frosty though backed at lo to 

 I, a short price in the circumstances, was never 

 prominent. 



But next year Mr. Bibby's luck was in the ascendant. 

 I have already dealt with Comfit in connection with the 

 Liverpool, but omitted description of this previous 

 exploit. Mr. Bibby had only given ;^I25 for the son 

 of Butterscotch, who made his first appearance on any 

 course in this National Hunt Steeplechase, held again 

 at Warwick, and starting at an outside price, unmen- 

 tioned by name in the betting, indeed, beat seventeen 

 opponents without difl^culty in the hands of Captain 

 R. H. Collis. He by no means surprised his owner 

 and trainer, who fully realised what a good animal he 

 was. There was a strong favourite this year in Con- 

 naught, a five-year-old son of that good steeplechaser 

 Royal Meath. As little as 1 1 to 4 was taken about him, 

 and after falling and being remounted he finished fourth. 

 Frosty was another of the numerous fallers and not 

 long afterwards came to a tragic end. He was sent to 

 Liverpool to run for the Valentine Steeplechase, and 

 fell at the first fence. Mason speedily remounted. 

 There were only two others in the field. Flying Swallow 

 and Patlander, and Frosty was not long in getting on 

 terms with them. It looked, indeed, as if he had won 



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