" THE HEAD OF THE LIST" 



his filly, nevertheless the two met on three occasions 

 and each time the filly beat the colt. She did so by 

 two lengths in the Coventry Stakes at Ascot, by a 

 head in the Chesterfield, by a head again in the Rous 

 Memorial at the Newmarket First October Meeting. 

 How she came to do it her owner declared himself not 

 able to understand, and it could not have been jockey- 

 ship, for Eager was ridden by Mornington Cannon, 

 who had no superior. 



The year 1897 was made striking by the fact that 

 Mr. J. Gubbins, who headed the list with £22,739, 

 owed it all except the trifle of £102 to one horse — 

 Galtee More, the son of Kendal and Morganette. The 

 previous season Lord Rosebery's Velasquez had been 

 looked on as the best of the two-year-olds prior to the 

 Middle Park Plate, when with odds of 5 to 1 on 

 Velasquez Galtee More beat him in a canter by half 

 a dozen lengths. The result was too hastily asserted 

 to be altogether wrong, for as three-year-olds Galtee 

 More gave the most convincing evidence that such a 

 supposition was a mistake. Mr. Gubbins' colt won 

 the Two Thousand Guineas of £3700, the Newmarket 

 Stakes of £2945, the Derby of £5450, the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes at Ascot at £1775, the Sandringham 

 Cup at Sandown, then a three-year-old race, of £1300, 

 the Leger of £5425, and the Sandown Foal Plate of 

 £2042, that is, in all £22,637. He failed only once. 

 After such a season it was perhaps not very kind to 

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