REGALIA 



Lincolnshire Handicap decided a montli previously, 

 could not even get a place, and King Charming 

 and Historian were behind him. A prize of 

 £1000 would fail to tempt such a field to the 

 post for a weight-for-age race nowadays, yet the 

 stake won by Regalia in this event was £110 ! 

 There were nine races in the programme that day, 

 and, at the end of the afternoon, the filly was 

 pulled out again for a Queen's Plate, and polished 

 off Ackworth and others by fifteen lengths over 

 two miles. Then came a series of reverses includ- 

 ing one in that memorable race for the Ascot Cup 

 of which a full account has been given in the 

 sketch of Gladiateur's career, but the spell was 

 broken at Doncaster, where she must have been 

 on her best behaviour, and cantered home forty 

 lengths in front of Ackworth and Tormentor for 

 the Queen's Plate. The substantial burden of 

 9 st. proved too much for her in that memorable 

 Cesarewitch won by the gallant little Lecturer, but 

 she wound up the season with three consecutive 

 brackets, annexing a couple more of Her Majesty's 

 Plates, and easily polishing off Ostreger, Moulsey, 

 Breeze, and Kangaroo over the Rowley mile. 

 This was another remarkably useful field for a 

 "Plate of 100 sov."! 



Regalia's five-year-old season was her heaviest, 

 and she certainly never ran better than she did 

 then, but luck was against her all through, and two 

 races of the aggregate value of £555 proved the 

 only result of fifteen outings. An unfortunate start 

 was made in the Northamptonshire Stakes, which 

 the mare, though weiglited with 9 st. 3 lb. and set 

 to give 7 lb. to Lecturer, looked remarkably like 

 winning. She was never going better in her life, 

 and, at about a mile and a quarter, had settled 

 down so nicely that Heartfield tliought the race 



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