SOME WINNERS 



and a half and a neck, for the ;^iooo Great Cheshire 

 Steeplechase at Hooton. He then took three consecu- 

 tive races, the Tarporley Handicap Steeplechase, in 

 which the favourite Ballyhackle fell ; the County 

 Steeplechase at Ludlow, Ballyhackle this time beaten on 

 his merits unplaced to Red Cloth, the two now meeting 

 at even weights ; and the Busbridge Handicap Steeple- 

 chase at Sandown, thirteen behind him. At Notting- 

 ham he was second to Cannock Lad for the Midland 

 Handicap Steeplechase, Leinster and Ballyhackle un- 

 placed with nine others. In 1909 he won the ^200 

 Waterloo Steeplechase at Manchester in February, and 

 made a good fight with Bloodstone for the Easter 

 Handicap at Manchester, the latter winning a length, 

 giving Red Cloth 5 lb. 



Red Coil, by Wavelet's Pride out of a mare by Red 

 Prince II., started her career as a four-year-old in 191 1 at 

 the Meath Hunt Meeting, after which, purchased by 

 Mr. Bibby, she ran for him at Birmingham and Sandown. 

 Her first success was in the Elvaston Steeplechase at 

 Derby, where she beat that good mare Distaff, with, 

 however, a considerable advantage in the weights. Mr. 

 Bibby was usually represented at the Manchester New 

 Year Meeting, and here Red Coil won the Canal Maiden 

 Steeplechase, after surviving an objection for " nearly 

 putting Mavourneen's Gift over the rails half way up 

 the straight." This the Stewards agreed was a ground- 

 less complaint. She won again at Newbury in January, 



