GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



Steeplechase the following day, the Llangibby Steeple- 

 chase at the Llangibby and Tredegar Hunt, and the 

 next afternoon the Ruperra Steeplechase. In 1902 he 

 was only out once, at Tenby, and it was decided that he 

 might be better employed in the hunting field. 



Creangate 



I have already remarked that Mr. Bibby never sought 

 to win races by mere weight of purse. This is a 

 delicate subject. I should like to say that few rich men 

 regard money less, and it was assuredly not from hesita- 

 tion in writing a big cheque that he seldom gave large 

 prices for the animals he bought. Creangate, a son of 

 Walmsgate and Crean, was, however, expensive. For 

 him 2000 guineas was paid, and the colt certainly seemed 

 worth the money. As a two-year-old in Ireland in 1905 

 he scarcely had a superior, and as a three-year-old he 

 continually distinguished himself. He won the Dublin 

 Plate at Baldoyle, a race of the same name at another 

 meeting there, the Champion Plate at Tramore, the 

 Paddock Post Plate at Baldoyle, and coming to England, 

 or rather to Scotland, the Edinburgh Gold Cup. He 

 appeared to have all the makings of a great jumper, and 

 was generally supposed to be a bargain, indeed he would 

 probably not have been sold but that his trainer got into 

 trouble. Col. Lort-Phillips tells me that he considered 

 the horse dirt cheap. Most unhappily he caught a chill 

 in the course of his journey to England, nearly died of 



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