A GREAT YEAR 



and Mrs. Whitworth's Iron Hand had both 8 st. 8 lb., 

 and Lord Glanely's second string, as Dominion was 

 then considered — not without reason in spite of the 

 Derby betting — stood at 8 st. 5 lb. Sir George 

 Noble's Bruff Bridge was esteemed only a pound below, 

 and of the fillies, though Lady Juliet had only run 

 twice and won once, she was supposed to have no 

 superior amongst her sex but an equal in Mr. W. H. 

 Dixon's Lady Farmer. This could only mean that 

 the fillies were poor. Lady Farmer had been beaten 

 in four of her five races, none of them stakes which 

 count for very much, and in the race she won by three 

 parts of a length the second, Lady Nelson's Tetrarchia, 

 was giving her 7 lb. It almost always happens that 

 some two-year-olds have appeared too late to be 

 included in the Free Handicap, and this was the case 

 with Lord Astor's Lord Basil, who had only been out 

 once, when he carried off the Buckenham Stakes. He 

 and his owner's Buchan, the latter also strangely 

 omitted from the Free Handicap for he had won thrice 

 before it was compiled, were considered to have 

 leading chances in the classics, outsiders with modest 

 support being Mr. C. T. Garland's Milton and Lady 

 Torrington's All Alone. But in such betting as was 

 quoted in the Spring of 1 9 1 9 The Panther dominated 

 the market. 



Lord Glanely did not begin the season with an 

 exceptionally numerous string. His horses in training 



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