A GREAT YEAR 



Abbey, however, was giving 2 stone, so that Ybro's 

 performance does not amount to much. As a four- 

 year-old Donoghue rode him in the Stewards' Plate at 

 Baldoyle and finished down the course. 



In the year 1916 a daughter of Grand Geraldine by 

 Dinneford named Geraldina did something to com- 

 pensate for the previous poor results of her dam's 

 unions. When she came out at Leopardstown for the 

 Stillorgan Two- Year-Old Plate she was evidently " not 

 expected," for odds at 20 to 1 were on offer against 

 her in a field of six, the race going to Foulmartlaw, who 

 won a number of stakes for Capt. Percy Bewicke. 

 Then, however, Geraldina began to assert herself. 

 Odds of 1 1 to 8 were laid on her for the Liffey Bank 

 Plate at Phcenix Park in a field of two dozen and she 

 won comfortably. Three days later, odds of 9 to 4 

 being laid on her this time, she won the Lee Plate at 

 Cork Park by fifteen lengths, though we may assume 

 that she had nothing to beat ; but in the Nursery 

 Stakes at the Curragh her task was evidently con- 

 sidered to be a somewhat serious one as 3 to 1 was laid 

 against her. She won, however, by eight lengths. 

 This Nursery took place in June, which will strike the 

 English racegoer as odd. I must confess to complete 

 ignorance of racing in Ireland and note that there was 

 only a difference of 1 1 lb. between the seven starters. 

 Geraldina let down her supporters at the Curragh in 

 July, when with odds of 2 to 1 on her she was beaten 



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