SOME WINNERS 



event which seemed to be within his compass. Mr. 

 Bibby had justification for the hope that he had secured 

 a Liverpool horse, and it was at Liverpool that he made 

 his first appearance in England, at the Autumn Meeting 

 of 1907 in the Valentine Steeplechase. Cackler, then 

 a four-year-old, who had already won three races and 

 was to prove himself invincible, took part in this event, 

 winning by eight lengths from a good 'chaser named 

 Roman Law. These two were better favourites than 

 Sweet Cecil, about whom, however, only 5 to i was 

 obtainable. Mason rode, but the horse fell, and though 

 shortly afterwards he won at Newbury from Lord 

 Howard de Walden's neatly named Centre Board, a son 

 of Speed and Ballast, there had become reason to fear 

 that Sweet Cecil was not likely to win a Liverpool. 



In 1908 he was out fourteen times, six times victori- 

 ously. He won the Stewards' 'Chase at Gatwick from 

 Razorbill, ten days later the Grange Steeplechase at 

 Hurst Park from Sprinkle Me — who carried off two 

 Grand Military Gold Cups — dead-heated with Lord St. 

 David's Atrato at Newbury, was beaten a neck by that 

 very useful horse Tom West at Leicester, and won the 

 Stewards' Handicap at Ludlow, a serviceable six weeks 

 employment! Later in the year he took the Lough- 

 borough Open Handicap at the Quorn Hunt Meeting, 

 and after a good second to Veglo at Sandown, won the 

 Leamington Handicap Steeplechase from Razorbill, 

 winding up the year with a couple of seconds, which in 



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