A GREAT YEAR 



for he made no show in the Croxteth Cup at the 

 Liverpool Autumn Meeting. Lord Glanely's horses, 

 however, won half a dozen races, as they had done the 

 previous season, though there was no £900 Plate like 

 the Chesterfield Nursery. Coedkernew took the 

 Doddington Welter at Bath, before being sent to 

 Austria, Greenmeadow the Coventry Plate at Wor- 

 cester, St. Vitus the Ford Manor Handicap, Sir Josh 

 a son of Sir Joshua and Morskaya, bought out of a 

 selling race at Gatwick in June for 360 guineas, next 

 ran for the Belvoir Castle Stakes at Leicester and won 

 from Mr. L. Winans's Dainty Prince. A two-year- 

 old daughter of Duke of Westminster and Spirited, 

 Dancing Mistress by name, won the Doddington 

 Selling Plate at Birmingham and was allowed to go to 

 Mr. George Edwardes ; also a son of Eager and Star 

 of the Sea called Starboard Light won the County 

 Two- Year-Old Plate at Bath. There were others this 

 season who ran unsuccessfully. 



Hitherto it will have been perceived Lord Glanely 

 had not chosen to spend much money on his purchases. 

 At Doncaster the previous season, however, he had 

 paid 2100 guineas for a son of Polymelus and Indian 

 Ink, called Indian Mail. Polymelus was just be- 

 ginning to make his reputation at the stud, the name, 

 by the way, being Lord Crewe's own invention, as I 

 remember gathering from him in the course of a 

 journey to a meeting where the horse won a race 



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