A GREAT YEAR 



I have given to the Committee I have had a voice in 

 the decision of some thousands of disputes, but I was 

 never more confident than in the case of that Tuesday 

 Two-Year-Old Plate. My argument is that there 

 cannot be a race unless the horses are started according 

 to rule and unless the Judge gives a verdict. In 

 what has come to be called the Pandion case a number 

 of the horses broke away on their own account, and 

 of those who passed the Judge's box that functionary 

 took no notice. Yet the critics of the Committee's 

 ruling would have it that this was a genuine race and 

 that when rather more than half of them returned to 

 the starting place, were duly dispatched and duly 

 placed by the Judge, that was not a race at all ! If it 

 is obstinacy to maintain my original view I certainly 

 remain obstinate. 



Scatwell reappeared for a Maiden Stakes at the 

 Newmarket Second Extra Meeting, again started 

 favourite, this time at 7 to 4, and won easily by a length. 

 He ran a third time at Newmarket in August for a race 

 called the Ramsey Plate. This time Mr. Hulton's 

 Violinist was favourite and won, Scatwell giving him 

 10 lb. was second, beaten a length, Gainsborough, 

 who was to make a great name for himself, receiving 

 10 lb. from Scatwell, finishing two lengths behind Lord 

 Glanely's colt. What Scatwell had done was sufficient 

 to induce Mr. Dawkins to place him at the top of the 

 Free Handicap with 9 st., Gainsborough following 



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