SOME WINNERS 



Gay Mac and Good Business 



This son of Uncle Mac and Girsha showed no small 

 promise. As a five-year-old in 1 9 1 5 he started, and at 

 any rate completed the course, for the Tantivy Steeple- 

 chase at Gatwick, afterwards winning a Maiden Five- 

 Year-Old Steeplechase at the National Hunt Meeting, 

 the last celebration of which took place at Cheltenham in 

 the year named. There were seven starters and five of 

 them fell. In December 191 6 Gay Mac came out at 

 Windsor against some of the best steeplechase horses in 

 training, including a National winner in Sunloch, and 

 it is not surprising that he failed to score, though it 

 is to be noted that he shared second favouritism 

 with the winner of several races called Minster Vale, and 

 whilst 5 to I was taken about Gay Mac, 7 to 2 was the 

 price laid against the favourite Poethlyn, whose name 

 has occurred on previous pages. One of Mr. Bibby's 

 sons used him as a charger in France, where the horse 

 died. Of Good Business there is nothing to be said 

 so far except that he is in Mr. Withington's charge at 

 Danebury. 



Lady Lovelace and Loughnavalley 



The daughter of Somerton and Yarrow Dale was one 

 of those with whom Mr. Bibby started ownership, and 

 may I think be regarded as notable, showing how races 

 may be won by a poor performer judiciously placed. 



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