THE GRADUAL RISE 



as she did again for the Salford Borough Handicap, 

 in which that remarkably handsome and capable colt 

 Irish Elegance took part. Grand Fleet ran up against 

 Irish Elegance again in the Cambridgeshire Hunt 

 Plate, and was beaten in the Cambridgeshire among 

 other races. 



Some compensation was forthcoming in the upward 

 progress of He, the son of Santoi and She, who had 

 developed in quite an extraordinary way. I omitted 

 to mention his one uneventful appearance as a two- 

 year-old, for there was nothing to say about it except 

 that he had run as well as he was expected to do. At 

 the Newmarket First Spring Meeting He showed 

 speed in the Chippenham Plate, won by King John, 

 subsequent winner of the Irish Derby, and then took 

 a Welter Handicap at the First Extra. He did much 

 better by defeating a useful field of staying horses for 

 the Summer Handicap, among them St. Tudwal and 

 The Viking, both greatly fancied, Furore, a winner 

 of the Cesarewitch, also St. Eloi, a winner of the 

 Alexandra Plate at Ascot. He continued to thrive so 

 well that when the Cesarewitch weights were published 

 his 7 st. 10 lb., a very respectable allotment for a 

 three-year-old, was by no means thought to be too much 

 for him, on the contrary he was regarded as having 

 so excellent a chance that he started a good favourite 

 for the chief of long-distance handicaps, a selection 

 which came just as near to success as possible. In a 



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