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won races had a less ambitious policy been pursued. 

 Holy Smoke came out for the Coventry Stakes at Ascot 

 in 1910, needless to say one of the principal events of 

 the season success in which almost inevitably presages 

 a brilliant career. Winners of the Coventry include 

 Ladas, Persimmon, Desmond, Rock Sand, St. Amant, 

 Cicero, Black Arrow, Louviers, who was beaten a very 

 short head for the Derby by the King's Minoru, Admiral 

 Hawke, the brother to Pretty Polly. Later in the list 

 come the names of Shogun, who I shall always think was 

 most unlucky to lose the Derby of 19 13, and the famous 

 Tetrarch. 



In 1 9 10 Holy Smoke was beaten out of a place in 

 the Coventry, which went to Radiancy, the second being 

 Cellini, afterwards winner of the National Breeders' Foal 

 Stakes at Sandown, already described as much the most 

 valuable two-year-old prize of the season. Holy Smoke's 

 second attempt was in the p^iooo British Dominion 

 Stakes, also at Sandown, and he was held in sufficient 

 respect to cause him to start second favourite at 100 to 

 30. He then ran in the Soltykoff Stakes at New- 

 market, in the Richmond at Goodwood, which was won 

 by that good horse Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Pietri, 

 on whom 6 to 4 was laid. In a Plate at the First 

 October Meeting he encountered Stedfast and other 

 good animals, and there were formidable rivals in the 

 Alington Plate at the Second October, a race which 

 created something of a sensation, for Lord Falmouth's 



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