THE GRADUAL RISE 



Lord Glanely, the first time successfully. All sorts 

 of hitherto unknown names were devised for races at 

 the Newmarket Extra Meetings. One of them was 

 the Oakington Plate, in which White Squall had a 

 head the better of Mr. J. B. Thorneycroft's Damask. 

 In amount the nine races won did not bring in quite 

 so much as the eight had done the previous season. 

 The total was £2941 ; but Lord Glanely could 

 regard the future with a certain amount of complacency, 

 having now some really good horses to run for him. 



The year 1 9 1 8 proved that this attitude was justified, 

 and there was additional satisfaction in the circum- 

 stance that two of the winners were homebred, Somerset 

 Lassie being a daughter of Quantock and The Waif, 

 Lady Juliet of Mercutio and Lady Fowler. Neither 

 of them did much, it is true, but there is always some- 

 thing particularly welcome in the success of horses 

 homebred. Somerset Lassie was allowed to begin 

 in a Selling Race at the Newmarket First July, another 

 of Lord Glanely's being in the field, Royal Welsh, a 

 son of St. Amant and Royal Applause. He was 

 thought the better of the two and started second 

 favourite at 5 to 1, neither finishing in the first 

 three behind Fussy. It was, by the way, fortunate 

 for Mr. C. E. Howard that no one claimed Sunny 

 Rhyme, who has won a number of races for her 

 owner. Somerset Lassie just won the Fakenham 

 Nursery from Valley and Mr. Howard's filly just 



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