A GREAT YEAR 



an unnamed son of Sempronius and Lady Smith on 

 the same mark and Roseburn at 7 to 4. Grand 

 Marnier finished third of the seven, beaten, however, 

 ten lengths. For the Salisbury Stakes she stood at 

 100 to 8 and ran accordingly, not coming out again 

 till the end of October, when she ran for a Selling 

 Nursery at Sandown, making no show, and she did no 

 better in the Stratford Welter at Warwick. Evidently 

 she was no use for racing and she did not run as a 

 three-year-old. 



A little more should be said of animals who come 

 into this pedigree. L'Abbesse de Jouarre, the 

 daughter of Trappist and Festive, brings another 

 classic element into the family. It is somewhat strange 

 that two animals of the highest class should have made 

 their first appearance, and that in the same race, at 

 Croydon, where class was seldom represented. For 

 the Two- Year-Old Plate, however, the subsequent 

 Oaks winner and Amphion first came out, the colt 

 favourite at 2 to 1, the filly backed at 5 to 2. He won, 

 but she did not perform in a manner to suggest that 

 she was the animal she proved to be. But she soon 

 came to the front, winning the May Plate at head- 

 quarters, also the Newmarket Two-Year-Old Plate, 

 and what was hoped of her is shown by the fact of her 

 having been sent to Ascot for the Fern Hill Stakes, 

 where Hazelhatch beat her by three parts of a length. 

 She also won the West Riding Champagne Trial 



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