CHAPTER II 

 THE GRADUAL RISE 



Lord Glanely's rise to the head of the list was a 

 gradual but not unchecked ascent from the humblest 

 beginning. With wise discretion he had determined 

 not to indulge in ownership on an elaborate scale until 

 experience enabled him clearly to understand what he 

 was doing. In the year 1908 Mr. Walter Raphael 

 owned a very moderate three-year-old named Goemon, 

 a son of Merman, the Cesarewitch and Ascot Cup 

 winner, and Tutti Frutti. Goemon was a winner on 

 rare occasions of minor races. He had the luck to 

 come upon three others worse than himself in a First 

 Foal Stakes at the Newmarket Second July, and 

 though this was the only race he secured that season 

 Mr. W. J. Tatem, as Lord Glanely then was, took a 

 mild fancy to the colt and bought it. He first carried 

 his new owner's colours, then dark blue, white yoke, 

 sleeves and cap, in the Prince of Wales's Stakes on the 

 first day of the Epsom Meeting in 1909, unmentioned 

 in the betting and unplaced in the race. He did no 

 better in the Earlsfield Welter at Hurst Park, but at 



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