Identifier: greatyearlordgla00wats (find matches)
Title: A great year Lord Glanely's horses
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Glanely, Lord, 1868-1942 Horses Horse racing Horses
Publisher: (London) : Printed for private circulation by Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London Fourth Avenue & 30th Street, New York Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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broken a blood-vessel shortly before the Derbyand consequently been stopped in his work, so that hedrifted out in the market to hopeless odds, orrather it should be said to odds which were apparentlyhopeless, seeing that the 66 to 1 chance fructified. It is astonishing, by the way, to find a judge who istrying a case in connection with racing knowing any-thing about the Turf. A few years ago I went to theLewes Assizes to give evidence as to the value of ahorse that had been killed by a motor bus. Counselfor the Plaintiff, Mr. Kennedy Jones, dilated on thebreeding of the equine victim. He was, Sir HenryDickens remarked, descended from the famousHermit who won the Derby in a snowstorm. Icannot, I am afraid, give you the exact date of thisoccurrence, gentlemen, he observed to the jury, whenthe Judge, Mr. Justice Bray, leaned over his desk andremarked, It was in 1867. Hermit, however, whothus comes into our story as an ancestor of GrandParade, was a son of Newminster, who won the St. i6£
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GRAND PARADE Leger of 1861, by Touchstone, another of the greatestnames in Turf history, who won the Leger of 1834and sired a number of great winners, classic onesamong them including Cotherstone, Flatcatcher,Nunykirk, Lord of the Isles, Mendicant, Blue Bonnetand Surplice. Also Orlando, who was credited withthe Derby of 1844 after what is perhaps the mostsensational episode in the history of the Blue Ribbon.Orlando was beaten by a horse falsely described asRunning Rain who was subsequently proved to be afour-year-old called Maccabaeus, a name afterwardschanged to Zanoni. Grand Marnier, the property of Lord Hamilton ofDalzell, came out for the Lincoln Plate of 1902 oneof eleven starters. Something was hoped of her, forMorny Cannon was engaged to ride and she wasbacked at 100 to 15, Captain Machells Lady Helpstarting at the same price, whilst Mr. Leopold deRothschilds Cormac and Mr. S. R. Frys Acquisitionwere joint favourites at 9 to 4. Lady Help woneasily, Grand Marnier fourth. This wa

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