GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



successes was an exciting race at Blackpool when he was 

 only opposed by Purdysburn. Odds of 6 to 4 were 

 laid on the latter, the distance was three miles, and Ben 

 Ruadh got home by a short head. 



Billy Balsam, Bogo, and Breemount 



Of Billy Balsam and Bogo there is not much to be 

 said, indeed I think I need not formulate their moderate 

 essays. Breemount, a son of St. Gris and Mavourneen, 

 who cost ;^42o, must be set down as unlucky. I have 

 always thought that he ought to have done a great deal 

 better than he did. He only came out once as a five- 

 year-old, unplaced to Domino for the Tantivy Steeple- 

 chase at Gatwick. As a six-year-old he began well, 

 though not victoriously, by running Lord St. David's 

 Atrato to three lengths for the Sefton Steeplechase at 

 Newbury — no relation to the Aintree contest. At the 

 following Newbury meeting he was again second, this 

 time to Whipsnade, and ran for the National Hunt as 

 already noted, when his stable companion Wickham was 

 second to Rory O' Moore. He was not out again for a 

 year, until the next National Hunt of 1908 at Warwick, 

 when he won the Foxhunters' Plate, Captain Collis up, 

 over three miles and a half of the National Hunt Course, 

 that is to say a stiff hunting country. He nearly always 

 started for races of some pretension. In the Welsh 

 Grand National at Cardiff he was third to Roman Candle 

 and Timothy Titus, beating Ballyhackle, and the follow- 



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