48 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



make them. From both Knockany and Bruree 

 the Galtee mountains form a prominent feature in 

 a beautiful landscape, the big height of " Galtee 

 More " towering above its fellows, and it was rightly- 

 chosen as an auspicious name for the bay colt by 

 Kendal out of Morganette, when he was foaled 

 at Knockany in 1894. His after career demon- 

 strated that he fully recognised the duty imposed 

 on him by his name. 



Galtee More and Bantry Bay were yearlings 

 together at Knockany, and Mr. Gubbins thought 



more of Bantry Bay. He proved to 

 The career ^ 



of Galtee be only a moderate horse. Mike Burns 

 always had a very high opinion of 

 Galtee. Galtee More started by winning the 

 Hurstbourne Stakes at Stockbridge, ridden by my 

 trial jockey, Garrett. Then he won the Mole- 

 combe Stakes at Goodwood, the Rous Plate at 

 Doncaster, and the Middle Park Plate — in an abso- 

 lute sea of mud ; I think the heaviest going ever 

 known — at Newmarket. He beat Velasquez in a 

 canter of six lengths. The late Mr. C. Greenwood 

 (" Hotspur " of the Telegra'ph) said to me : 



" Sam, you'll never beat him like that again," 

 but he did exactly the same thing in the Two 

 Thousand in 1897, beating him by about the same 

 distance. 



Galtee More became a four- to- one on chance 



