GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



many falls, there having been a considerable amount of 

 disaster at the first jump. 



Sir Halbert, the property of Captain Grissell himself 

 in former days a successful rider, particularly in India, 

 landed in the hands of Mr. A. Smith after a thrilling 

 finish with Major Purvis on Our Philip. As a rule the 

 National Hunt Steeplechase is won by a substantial 

 margin, this time it was only the matter of a neck, and 

 as I remember the race, of what looked a very short one. 

 Though as already noted Mr. Bibby was without a 

 runner the Lawrenny stable was represented by Col. 

 Lort-Phillips's Misalliance II., a five-year-old mare who 

 never I think won a race, and was sent to Germany. 

 The National Hunt seemed to have been permanently 

 transferred to Cheltenham, at least the meeting was held 

 there for the following four years until its abandonment 

 in consequence of the war. In 191 2 Mr. Bibby did not 

 contribute to the field of thirty-one, when the race was 

 taken by The Rejected IV., in 1913 Col. Lort-Phillips 

 ran Carew, but gained an indirect success, as the winner, 

 Kransfiagl was aison of his horse Missel Thrush. In 19 14 

 Col. Phillips ran a five-year-old named Tod, the race 

 being taken by War Dupe. In 191 5 the Cheltenham 

 stand had been utilised as a hospital and a not incon- 

 siderable proportion of the spectators wore the blue 

 garb of the wounded soldier. It was evident that they 

 vastly enjoyed the spectacle, some of those who had not 

 recovered sufficiently to move about the enclosures 



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