AS A FOUR-YEAR-OLD 



won, and that with consummate ease, the only classic 

 for which he had started — his name had been 

 omitted from the entry for the Two Thousand 

 Guineas, and though he was engaged in the Derby 

 he was not ready to run. The entries for the Gold 

 Cup in 191 2 numbered no fewer than forty-one, an 

 altogether exceptional figure, but only seven went 

 to the post. The general opinion was that if any- 

 thing beat Prince Palatine it would be the French 

 mare Basse Pointe. There was something to be 

 said for Charles O'Malley, that something being that, 

 as already noted, he had run Willonyx to a neck 

 twelve months previously, and this had naturally 

 come to be regarded as a notable achievement when 

 Willonyx carried off the Cesarewitch with 9 st. 5 lb., 

 a weight which had never before been borne success- 

 fully. A three-year-old filly called Bill and Coo, a 

 daughter of William the Third and Cooee, also 

 found supporters ; for, notwithstanding that she had 

 made no particular show prior to the Ascot Meeting 

 in a Three-Year-Old Handicap at Kempton, or in 

 the One Thousand Guineas, there were supposed to 

 be great possibilities about her. The general im- 

 pression, however, was that the race was something 

 in the nature of a match between Prince Palatine 

 and the French mare, a daughter of Simonian and 

 Basse Terre, who shortly before coming to England 



had won a couple of good races at Longchamps. 

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