THE GREAT YEAR 



Of the two horses sent to the Epsom Spring Meet- 

 ing Cutty Sark, ridden by Carslake, a jockey for some 

 reason less successful here than elsewhere, made little 

 show in the Two-Year-Old Westminster Plate, Scat- 

 well, thought to have a fair chance in the City and 

 Suburban, backed at 9 to 1, finished unplaced to 

 Lady Queensberry's Royal Bucks, Lord Jersey's 

 Arion, and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux's 

 Dansellon. Sandown follows Epsom. Royal Welsh's 

 fourth attempt, in the Esher Cup, was abortive, but 

 Sky-rocket won the Guildford Handicap. 



SANDOWN PARK Second Spring Meeting. Friday, May 2nd. 

 GUILDFORD HANDICAP of £200, of which second reed. £20, 

 for 4 yr. olds and upwards ; entr. £4, or £1 if dec. ; \\ m. 

 (13 ents., viz. 10 at £4, and 3 at £1 — £176.) 

 Lord Glanely's ch.c. Sky-rocket, by Sunstar 



— Maid of the Mist, 4 yrs., 9 st. 4 lb. - A. Smith I 



Mr. R. Mills' Gloomy Dean, aged, 7 st. - - J. Plant 2 



Mr. R. B. Thorburn's New Guinea, 4 yrs., 



8 st. 6 lb. E. Piper 3 



Mr. W. Blythe's Sea Voyage, aged, 8 st. - E. Wheatley - 

 Mr. G. Barclay's Golden Rule, aged, lost. 2 lb. J. Clark - 



Mr. A. E. Barton's Leandros, 4 yrs., 9 st. 2 lb. 



was weighed for by R. Cooper, but the 



number was withdrawn by permission of 



the Stewards. 



5/4 agst. Golden Rule, 11/4 New Guinea, 9/2 Sea Voyage, 

 6/1 Sky-rocket, 10/1 Gloomy Dean. Won by |- length, 6 

 lengths second and third. 



Proceeding to Newmarket for the First Spring 

 Meeting Lord Glanely had good cause to be satisfied 



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