THE GRADUAL RISE 



Selling Plate at Birmingham, and he won him a similar 

 event at Wolverhampton. But Lord Glanely was by 

 this time the owner of a notably speedy colt to carry the 

 revised colours, which were now black, red, white and 

 blue belt and cap. This was a son of Thrush and 

 Rock Egg, later to earn reputation as Quantock. The 

 unnamed — he ran as the Rock Egg colt — came out 

 for the Sefton Park Plate at the Liverpool Spring, and, 

 not mentioned in the betting, won it from Sir Robert 

 Jardine's daughter of Desmond and Sapphic. Quan- 

 tock was distinctly the best animal Mr. Tatem had 

 secured so far. He ran well for the Spring Two-Year- 

 Old Stakes at Kempton, His Majesty's Carol Singer, 

 who was to have such a long career on the flat and over 

 hurdles, beating him a head for second place behind 

 Mr. L. Neumann's Astra ; and that the colt was 

 highly esteemed is shown by the fact that it was thought 

 worth while to let him start for the Fern Hill Stakes 

 at Ascot. Sir William Cooke's Hornet's Beauty, 

 invincible just then — he won all the fifteen races in 

 which he took part that year — was one of the runners, 

 and it is not surprising that the two-year-old, useful 

 as he was, could make no impression on the flying son 

 of Tredennis. 



The Packington Plate at Warwick the Rock Egg 



colt won in a canter by four lengths, but His Majesty's 



Mirabeau with an advantage in the weights beat him 



and the rest for the Highclere Nursery at Newbury. 



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