A GREAT YEAR 



had in fact failed by a head to give 4 lb. to Lord 

 Durham's Roscius, easily beating Mr. F. Stobart's 

 Roubaix, another exportation to India, and one of the 

 most successful seen there for some years past. He 

 and Quarryman frequently ran together, and speaking 

 from memory I think they were in the habit of beating 

 each other. With Donoghue up Grand Fleet won 

 the Stockton Handicap, and survived an objection on 

 the ground of a cross. Perhaps the Stewards were 

 generous in allowing the return of the deposit. That, 

 however, was Grand Fleet's solitary success, though he 

 distinguished himself in the Cambridgeshire by 

 running third to Sir Abe Bailey's good colt Brown 

 Prince with Mr. Barclay's Planet second. All these 

 three were three-year-olds and Grand Fleet was giving 

 6 lb. to both the first and second. 



But though Grand Fleet was scarcely successful in 

 the matter of earning money, the year was a fortunate 

 one for his owner, who was now beginning to collect 

 a number of really good horses, indeed there was in 

 1917 a foreshadowing of the Great Year — that is to 

 say if all went well, for Lord Glanely had seen enough 

 of ownership to know that rosy prospects were very apt 

 to fade. Happily this was not the case here. Argosy 

 was reproduced at the Newmarket Craven Meeting 

 in an Apprentice Plate, with which he cantered away 

 by six lengths, and he made his mark by winning the 

 Hastings Plate by a length and a half from Mr. Frank 



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