GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



horses have done since, and at a second attempt took a 

 similar event at the Carmarthenshire Hunt Meeting, 

 which Mr. Bibby has helped so greatly to support. Her 

 first essay over fences was at Hawthorn Hill in a ;^2oo 

 race, her first win being over the Flying Course at the 

 Pembrokeshire Hunt in a race for which Frosty also 

 ran, there being a declaration to win, however, with 

 Semi-colon. We find her next at Clonmel, where she 

 took the Three Mile Executive Plate. Returning to 

 England she tried for the ;{^2 5o Midland Handicap 

 Steeplechase at Nottingham, but was not equal to the 

 task of dealing with her elders. As a five-year-old she 

 was sold after winning a hurdle race at Cardiff. 



Shoot was bred by Col. Lort-Phillips, who rated him 

 as a horse of considerable promise. He was by the 

 imported Derringer out of May Bloom, a four-year-old 

 in 1904. In January he was introduced to racing over 

 hurdles at Carmarthen and in a little steeplechase at 

 Tenby at the beginning of the year, not to be seen again 

 till he reappeared at Hooton in November, where, how- 

 ever, the company was too good for him, including as 

 it did Judas, backed at a short price for the Liverpool, 

 Onward, that very useful animal Flutterer, who won a 

 number of races for Sir Peter Walker and remained in 

 training to an exceptionally old age, and others who 

 were in the habit of winning. As a five-year-old he ran 

 again at Tenby against only one opponent, an animal 

 named Barograph, who came in first, but after passing 



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