THE GRADUAL RISE 



League, vainly strove on four occasions to help ; The 

 Waif was out twice as often, Sir Josh did nothing. 

 Indian Mail made a satisfactory beginning in the 

 Copthorne Plate at the Epsom Spring Meeting, but 

 was then beaten thrice. Rocksplit, prominent for 

 a three-year-old handicap at Birmingham, won the 

 October Maiden Plate at Leicester, and Man of War, 

 a son of Admirable Crichton and Bunch of Roses, not 

 hitherto mentioned, took the Bull Ring Handicap 

 at Birmingham. The season's receipts were ^387 

 gained in three races. 



No great improvement occurred in 191 5. Green- 

 meadow, Maid of Sker, Sir Josh, The Waif, Indian 

 Mail and Rocksplit could not win a race between 

 them. The stable had been strengthened however ; 

 towards the end of the season Lord Glanely bought a 

 charming filly named Tingvalla, a daughter of Fariman 

 and Padella, from her breeder, Captain M. Laing, a 

 member of the Jockey Club in whose colours she had 

 borne off an important race, the Windsor Castle Stakes, 

 at Ascot, having also been conspicuous in other rich 

 events. She only once that season carried the black, 

 red, white and blue belt, that having been in the 

 Queensberry Handicap at Brighton, when in a field 

 of twenty-two she met amongst others His Majesty's 

 Friar Marcus, who won from Mr. A. M'Micking's 

 Wormleighton ; other runners being Sir William 

 Cooke's Hornet's Beauty, the Vicomte Fontarce's 



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