SOME WINNERS 



ground that she had gone the wrong side of a post. 

 This was overruled, but the National Hunt Stewards re- 

 opened the case. The question was " Whether a flag 

 which had been knocked down during the running of a 

 previous race was or was not to be regarded as still 

 marking the course to be traversed." The Stewards 

 decided that it was, and reversed the decision. Lady 

 Lovelace won afterwards at Cardiff. Loophead has 

 already been mentioned. 



The peculiarity about Loughnavalley, a daughter of 

 Heckberry and Glance, was the astonishing number of 

 seconds she ran. As a five-year-old in 1905 she started 

 by running second at Mullingar. Mr. Bibby bought 

 her, and she made her first appearance in England at 

 Gatwick in a Novices' Steeplechase, unsuccessfully. As 

 a six-year-old she had been out no fewer than ten times 

 before she won. She was second to that good horse Old 

 Fairyhouse, one of the brilliant sons of Hackler and 

 Circe, for the Chaddesdon Steeplechase at Derby ; second 

 for a hurdle race at Cardiff, for another at Monmouth- 

 shire, for another, and also for the Stewards' Steeple- 

 chase, at the Pembrokeshire Hunt ; second again at 

 Cardiff, (and third by way of a little change next day,) 

 second for the Henley Steeplechase at Ludlow, second 

 for the Members' Handicap still at Ludlow. As a 

 seven-year-old she was second to Dathi at Tenby, and 

 it is not surprising that her owner had grown tired of 

 her. She was bought by Mr. Cuthbertson. 



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