AS A FOUR-YEAR-OLD 



the entry was extended to three-year-olds and 

 upwards, and became the Epsom Cup for horses of 

 all ages, over, of course, two years, distance a mile 

 and a half. It is difficult to say why this did not 

 please owners, but that it was so is shown by the 

 fact that in 1899 there were only a couple of 

 runners, the Colonial bred six-year-old Newhaven 

 II,, who had won the City and Suburban at the 

 Spring Meeting, having only to beat Mr. Leopold 

 de Rothschild's five-year-old Jacquemart. This 

 event waned, in 1902 the Coronation Cup was 

 started, and though much on the lines of the 

 Epsom Cup in its later days, a mile and a half 

 for three-year-olds and upwards, the race was at 

 once firmly established. Fields have indeed always 

 been small — twice there have been only three 

 runners and never more than nine — but the com- 

 petitors have with very few exceptions been remark- 

 ably select. In the first year Volodyovski, who 

 had won the Derby of the previous season, was 

 beaten by Lord Wolverton's Osboch, with Mr. 

 George Edwardes's Ascot Cup winner, Santoi, third. 

 The following year Mr. Heinemann's Valenza took 

 the prize from Colonel Harry M'Calmont's good 

 colt Rising Glass. If Valenza was perhaps not 

 the equal of other Coronation Cup winners she 

 may correctly be described as a good mare, and 

 at the stud has produced a worthy son in Lord 



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