GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



as winner of the National Hunt Steeplechase. He had 

 not been out since scoring at Warwick until he went to 

 the post at Liverpool, but though he stood up he did 

 not run particularly well behind Leinster, who, only a 

 five-year-old, carried his I2st. 7 lb. successfully, win- 

 ning with nothing to spare from the six-year-old Saxilby 

 in receipt of 30 lb. The following two seasons Mr. 

 Bibby again ran nothing. In 1904 Captain H. T. 

 Fenwick won with Phil May, and in 1905 the five-year- 

 old Hackwatch, a son of Hackler and On the Watch, 

 was invincible. This horse carried off all the seven 

 races for which he started, and he was not beaten in 

 1906 when, however, the Grand Sefton was the only 

 race for which he ran. 



Here Mr. Bibby ran a six-year-old named Wild Boer, 

 one of the few offspring of Victor Wild who did any- 

 thing to perpetuate the fame of that good horse. Nor 

 was Wild Boer much of a luminary. He won nothing 

 in 1906, though the previous season, after taking a 

 hurdle race at Cardiff, he had carried off the ;^400 

 Cheshire Autumn Steeplechase at Hooton Park. On 

 former pages I have commented on the achievements of 

 the offspring of Circe. One of her sons. Springbok, 

 won in 1907, when Mr. Bibby ran Loop Head, a six- 

 year-old son of Brayhead and Barberry. This horse had 

 shown no little promise as a five-year-old before Mr. 

 Bibby bought him, he had won in Ireland, having 

 earned four brackets in half a dozen attempts, one, 



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