A GREAT YEAR 



hammer. For 11,500 guineas Lord Glanely acquired 

 the colt, and presently named him Westward Ho ! 

 In any case it is possible that such a big, unfurnished 

 young one might not be ready as a two-year-old, 

 and it was certain that he could not be nearly at his 

 best. The question of endeavouring to train him for 

 his engagements was, however, solved by the develop- 

 ment of a thorough pin. The colt was in Fred 

 Darling's stables at Beckhampton where the ailment 

 was effectually treated, and as a three-year-old in May 

 Westward Ho ! , if not really fit, was fit enough to be 

 sent to run for the Beacon Maiden Plate at Lingfield. 

 It was seen that he had grown in the right way, and he 

 looked magnificent with the sun on his rich brown 

 coat while being led round in the paddock before the 

 race. 



Backers and bookmakers did not at first quite 

 know what to make of him, and even money was 

 offered in the field of twelve, only two of whom had 

 been out that season. Gradually the colt advanced 

 in the market till odds of 7 to 4 were laid on him ; 

 and he won easily if by no more than three parts of a 

 length from Soldier Song and Donna Branca, the 

 latter a daughter of Westward Ho's sire who finished 

 fourth for the Oaks prior to winning the valuable 

 Coronation Stakes at Ascot. Lord Glanely did not 

 entirely forgo a faint hope of the Derby, notwith- 

 standing that the colt was not yet quite ready, that in 



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