A GREAT YEAR 



so little to do that odds of 20 to 1 were laid on him. 

 After this he was hurried over to England to run for 

 the Moulton Stakes at the Houghton Meeting, and, 

 as the event proved, it would have been better to have 

 spared him, as he was by no means at his best after 

 his journey. Knight of the Air, who following on a 

 victory at an Extra Meeting had lost the Hopeful 

 Stakes by a head, was favourite at a shade over evens, 

 as much as 9 to 2 being finally laid against Grand 

 Parade — after he had opened at even money — and 

 Glanmerin, the property of the late Lord Herbert 

 Vane Tempest — like Grand Parade Glanmerin is a 

 son of Orby — was also considered to have a good 

 chance ; as proved to be the case, for he won a head 

 from the favourite, Grand Parade, beaten two lengths, 

 suffering the only defeat of his career. 



Racegoers in general were not a little puzzled as to 

 whether Grand Parade was really the best two-year-old 

 in the stable, for there likewise was Dominion, a son 

 of Polymelus and the Desmond mare Osyrua, a good 

 colt, but not a lucky one, for on several occasions he 

 was barely beaten and in one case with a fair field and 

 no favour would almost certainly have won. He had 

 been so well tried that odds of 5 to 4 were laid on him 

 for a Maiden Plate at the Craven Meeting, an optional 

 Selling Race, in which Vice Reine, benefiting by a 

 previous experience and a selling allowance, ran him 

 to a neck. For the Ditch Two-Year-Old Plate at the 



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