A GREAT YEAR 



first essay was in a Maiden Plate at Lingfield, and 

 proved a miss, but she rather unexpectedly won the 

 Romney Welter at the Folkstone Summer Meeting. 

 Goemon had a busy season, for he started the first 

 week at Liverpool in the Earl of Sefton's Plate, and 

 going to the post thirteen times in all was out the last 

 week, the very last day indeed, for the Farewell 

 Handicap at Manchester. His eleventh race resulted 

 in a win, the Worcester Autumn Handicap, and he 

 only lost the London and Brighton Handicap at 

 Lingfield by a short head. St. Vitus ceased to be a 

 maiden after being second in a mildly sensational 

 race at Sandown. Here Lord Derby's Royal Escort 

 bolted and got rid of his rider, F. Wootton, to be 

 captured and remounted, however, and in spite of his 

 wild gallop he won from Lord Glanely's colt. St. 

 Vitus carried off the July Welter at the Bibury Club 

 Meeting from joint favourites, Mr. George Edwardes's 

 Matelot and Mr. R. P. Cobbold's Catchpenny. The 

 yield of the season was the moderate sum of ^325. 



In 191 1 there was a marked improvement. St. 

 Vitus led off with a win. His appearance was delayed 

 until late in autumn, when he secured the Doddington 

 Welter Handicap at Bath, and he won the Avon Plate 

 at Birmingham, a good favourite. A gelding called La 

 La, his name derived from sire and dam, Ladas and La 

 Carolina, attracted Lord Glanely sufficiently to induce 

 him to give 220 guineas for him after he had won a 



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