SOME WINNERS 



Ocean won the Stand Plate, for which Rex ran third, 

 and Sweet Cecil started favourite for, though he did not 

 win, the Winter Plate. Rex first ran for Mr. Bibby at 

 Sandown as a five-year-old, and after two or three unpro- 

 ductive essays won a flat race at Ludlow on a day when 

 his owner came very near to sweeping the board ; as 

 earlier in the afternoon he had won the Open Hunters' 

 'Chase with Glenside, the County 'Chase with Red 

 Cloth, and the Henley 'Chase with Creangate. A 

 subsequent success of Rex in the Throckmorton Hurdle 

 Handicap at Gatwick was somewhat amusing by reason 

 of the strenuous efforts to dispossess him made by the 

 owner of an animal called Mystical, who only ran third. 

 Mystical was a strong favourite at 6 to 4, and one is led 

 to suspect that his friends thought it worth while to 

 stretch several points in order to get rid of the two who 

 had beaten him. The first objection was for crossing, 

 and this the Stewards overruled, whereupon Mystical's 

 jockey reported Mason and O'Brien for foul riding. 

 This was also promptly dismissed. Not even yet con- 

 tent, application was made to the Stewards of the 

 National Hunt to reopen the case, which they naturally 

 refused to do. 



Semi-colon and Shoot 



Semi-colon, own sister to Colon, was one of the early 

 bearers of the colours, a four-year-old in 1901, started 

 over hurdles at Tenby, as so many of Mr. Bibby's 



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