GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



but nothing else that season. As a seven-year-old, after 

 a second to Jacobus at Manchester, she beat Bloodstone 

 at Haydock Park, and then distinguished herself by 

 carrying off the National Hunt Handicap Steeplechase 

 at Cheltenham. There was a great deal of grief among 

 the seventeen starters. The pace must have been 

 remarkably good, for Ally Sloper, Bridge IV., Hugo- 

 mart, Fleeting Peace, Ragged Robin and An der Wein 

 were all pulled up ; Sir Halbert, who had won the 

 National Hunt Steeplechase over the same course as 

 noted on a previous page, Volvanstown, Wilkinstown 

 and Simon the Lepper fell. She won the Great Shrop- 

 shire Handicap at Ludlow, and in the Uxbridge Handi- 

 cap Sweepstakes at Kempton Park was second to the 

 very useful horse Silvertop, the winner in receipt of 

 251b., Lord Rivers, Belus and others of note behind. 

 In the Sandown Handicap Steeplechase she gave the 

 National winner Sunloch 7 lb. and beat him twenty 

 lengths, was a good second for the Charlton Handicap 

 Steeplechase at Cheltenham to Hackler's Bey in receipt 

 of no less than 41 lb., indeed she ranks high amongst 

 bearers of the colours. 



Rex was chiefly a hurdler. This son of Laveno and 

 Reigning Queen, a four-year-old in 1906, had run and 

 won in Ireland before Mr. Bibby bought him for ;^8oo. 

 It is perhaps a little curious that on the day when Rex 

 was last seen in Ireland at Leopardstown two other horses 

 who were to join Mr. Bibby's stable also ran. Mighty 



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