THE GREAT YEAR 



additional ^1907 should be added for the places they 

 secured, making ^32,343 10s. in all. 



1920 



To give the history of the Great Year, together with 

 a detailed account of the horses chiefly concerned, was 

 the object of this book. Something may nevertheless be 

 added of what happened during the next season. Not 

 infrequently a lean year follows a fat one, and it was 

 to be so here. If Lord Glanely had discovered the 

 secret of success in 191 9 it may be said to have eluded 

 him at least to a great extent in 1920 ; for he won only 

 a third in number of the races he had so triumphantly 

 secured, and they were worth little more than a sixth 

 part of the preceding total. No single stake amounted 

 to £1000, and we have seen that at Ascot in 191 9 

 seven of them exceeded that sum. No more than a 

 couple of the fifteen brought in half as much, in fact 

 another example was furnished of " the glorious un- 

 certainty of the Turf," though at the same time many 

 owners would be far from dissatisfied if in the course 

 of the season they won fifteen races worth ^5465. It 

 is therefore only speaking comparatively that the year 

 can be described as a failure. 



It is nevertheless true that horses started in no 

 fewer than twenty-six races before one of them got 

 home. Cutty Sark was beaten for the Welbeck Plate 



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