ON THE FLAT 



reasons which need not be discussed ; at it was he 

 finished second. Next day St. Tudwal won the Palatine 

 Hurdle Race, ran away with it, indeed, the verdict being 

 twenty lengths, and though I am sorry to use the term 

 " ought to have won " too frequently, I really think he 

 was most unlucky to miss the Twickenham Plate at the 

 Newmarket First Spring Meeting. The favourite here 

 was King John, afterwards winner of the Irish Derby, 

 others backed in the race being Rosmarin, McNeil and 

 Cattegat. While St. Tudwal was making a determined 

 effort, King John's jockey cut him over the head more 

 than once, and according to my reading of the race it 

 was certainly this which accounted for St.Tudwal's defeat 

 by half a length. The Hastings Plate was run over a 

 mile and a half, as was the Bushbury Maiden Plate at 

 Wolverhampton, which St. Tudwal won easily with 

 odds of 5 to 2 on him. 



Last July (191 8) St. Tudwal finished second to He 

 for the Summer Handicap, in front of such well-known 

 horses as Furore, Greek Scholar, St, Eloi, The Viking, 

 Evan and Rosmarin, and as when the Cesarewitch 

 weights were published He gradually became — as he 

 started — favourite for the great handicap, a fancy for St. 

 Tudwal naturally developed. Mr. Bibby's horse was 

 backed down to a short price and ran well without 

 actually threatening danger. To be precise he was 

 seventh to Air Raid, who beat He by a short head — 

 very luckily, for if Donoghue had ridden He, as but 



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