42 MALTON. 



But although Jenny Hewlett figures on the 

 register of winners of the Oaks, she is more likely 

 to be remembered in the future by the successes 

 of her progeny than her own. It is not often 

 that a mare earns so great a reputation as a brood 

 in a short time as she has done ; and Hawkeye, 

 Belle Mahone, and Chitabob are a fair trio to be 

 the produce of a mare that only went to the stud 

 six years ago. Bonnie Harden, too, promises to 

 make a good brood mare, and her yeailing filly 

 by Pursebearer, has a wear and tear look about 

 her that is full of promise for the future, whilst 

 her elegant quality and free action were con- 

 spicuous even amongst the good lot we saw when 

 at Hiofhfield. 



Lucy Glitters was rather an unlucky mare for 

 her owner and his friends She was bousfht 

 as a foal by Mr. Sawrey Cookson, and was sent 

 with the rest of his yearlings to Doncaster, where 

 she became the property of Mr. Perkins for 850 

 guineas. She ran well as a two-year-old, but 

 failed to win any races, and her two seconds in 

 the Oaks and Cambridgeshire, and third in the 

 Leger must have been bitter disappointments to 

 the connections of the stable. But especially 

 disastrous was the second in the Cambridgeshire. 

 After getting within two lengths of Iroquois in 

 the Leger she looked like having a great chance 

 for the Cambridgeshire, in w^iich she had the 

 lenient weight of Gst. 71b. She kept going on 



