A GREAT YEAR 



thing that the colt should have been beaten for the 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes, for which he started a hot 

 favourite at 5 to 2 on. 



Jest, the chestnut daughter of Sundridge and 

 Absurdity, gave Mr. J. B. Joel a lead, by winning the 

 One Thousand Guineas, £6400, and the Oaks, 

 £4950, which rendered it impossible to catch him in 

 19 1 3. He wound up with £25,1 15, and the following 

 season Black Jester, Jest's half-brother by Polymelus, 

 won five races worth £10,988, including the Leger, 

 whilst Princess Dorrie secured the One Thousand 

 Guineas and the Oaks, both of which that season were 

 worth £4950. This brought in over £20,000 of the 

 £30,986 to which the seasons gains amounted. 



Sir Edward Hulton accumulated in 19 16 a total 

 of £13,746. In an ordinary year winning the 

 Derby and Oaks would, of course, have produced 

 a highly satisfactory total. The substitute classics 

 which Fifinella, the daughter of Polymelus and Silver 

 Fowl, took in 1916 meant only £4000. Margarethal 

 won a couple of good stakes, the First Spring and the 

 Buckenham, which together yielded £3147, and 

 amongst other contributors was Knutsford, a son of 

 Swynford and Maybole, who won thrice in a manner 

 which caused him to be placed at the head of the Free 

 Handicap. So far from continuing his successes 

 Knutsford proved a complete failure, and as a three- 

 year-old never even ran into a place. 



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