A GREAT YEAR 



^8870. He won the St. George Stakes at Liverpool, 

 his fifth and last race of the season being the Leger. 

 The four successes yielded ,£19,286, and Dean Swift 

 once more did his share. The son of Childwick 

 repeated his victory of two years before in the City 

 and Suburban, won the Liverpool Cup, the Southdown 

 Plate at Lewes and appeared to exceptional advantage 

 in the Select Stakes at the Newmarket Second October. 

 Lord Derby's Cocksure II. had done brilliantly, 

 winning four races off the reel, and at Newmarket, in 

 what had become a match, odds of 85 to 40 were laid 

 on him, Maher in the saddle ; but Walter Griggs on 

 Dean Swift beat the three-year-old a head, and that 

 it meant much was demonstrated in the Cambridge- 

 shire, where Cocksure II., a three-year-old burdened 

 with 8 st. 5 lb., was close up, fourth, to Marcovil, 

 Land League and Succour, Lord Derby's colt starting 

 favourite at 3 to 1. Portland Bay won the Woking- 

 ham, as also the May Handicap at Gatwick. 



Mr. " Fairie," as my old friend Mr. A. W. Cox 

 was called until close upon the end of his career when 

 he reverted to his own name, came to the front in 1 909, 

 when first place meant the acquisition of £37,719 ; 

 and yet he esteemed himself not a little unfortunate 

 because Bayardo did not win the Derby. That he 

 ought to have done so seems to have been demon- 

 strated by what happened in the Leger, and there 

 was to all appearance a good reason for the Epsom 



