CHAPTER V 



SOME WINNERS 



More or less detailed comment must be made about 

 the best of the numerous horses Mr. Bibby has run at 

 meetings other than the two centres and the movable 

 National Hunt with which we have so far been dealing. 

 I have indeed already spoken of Leamington, but there 

 is more to add about the son of St. Andrew and Sister 

 Warwick — the dam bred in the United States. This 

 was a singularly lucky acquisition, as he cost no more 

 than 85 guineas at the sale of horses from the stable of 

 the American trainer Huggins in 1902, Huggins having 

 given up his English practice after taking heavy toll of 

 our stakes with horses the property of Mr. Whitney 

 and Lord William Beresford. Leamingrton was not 

 long in showing that his purchase had been judicious, 

 though it was indeed some time before he actually won 

 a race. His start was over hurdles as a five-year-old at 

 Carmarthenshire in 1903, and he began by running 

 second, beaten a length by a useful filly named 

 Pendulum. 



His first win was in a race of no small importance, 



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