. A great year Lord Glanely's horses. s a stablemanshe became sound and after an absence of just a yearwon a couple more races. For the Bretby Stakes St. Marguerite had only oneopponent, whom she easily beat, and for the Criterion,which used to finish up the hill at the Top of theTown, she once more came in third, this time toBruce, who started favourite for next years wound up her season by an easy victory in theHome Bred Foal Post Stakes at the Houghton will have been seen that when St. Marguerite didnot win she was much in the habit of running did so in the Co
. A great year Lord Glanely's horses. s a stablemanshe became sound and after an absence of just a yearwon a couple more races. For the Bretby Stakes St. Marguerite had only oneopponent, whom she easily beat, and for the Criterion,which used to finish up the hill at the Top of theTown, she once more came in third, this time toBruce, who started favourite for next years wound up her season by an easy victory in theHome Bred Foal Post Stakes at the Houghton will have been seen that when St. Marguerite didnot win she was much in the habit of running did so in the Column Produce Stakes and then 197 A GREAT YEAR secured inclusion in the ranks of classic winners bybeating Shotover—who had won the Two Thousandand was to win the Derby—for the One ThousandGuineas. For the Oaks St. Marguerite was secondto Geheimniss, and then third once more for theCoronation Stakes. At Goodwood in the LennoxStakes she failed by a head to give 9 lb. to the Dukeof Hamiltons Actress, but next day won the Nassau. 198. CHAPTER VI DANEBURY AND THE MARES By his purchase of the Danebury Estate Lord Glanelyhas become possessed of classic ground. What theBibury Club and Stockbridge Meeting used to bewas described by my old friend Lord Suffolk whomight be best known as the literary Earl. Thus hewrites in the Racing volume of the BadmintonLibrary : The Calendar months include no fixture morekeenly anticipated and relished than those threesummer days on the downs at Danebury. Stock-bridge, to which the Bibury Club meeting was removedin 1831, when local support failed at its birthplace onthe Cotswolds, has seldom if ever attempted to providethe rich prizes which fire the ambition or the avariceof owners. The Hurstbourne, established in 1870,at the suggestion of Lord Portsmouth, is now by farthe most valuable of its stakes, the Stockbridge Cup—a piece of plate value 300 sovereigns—coming next inorder of importance, and the whole affair has always 199 A GREAT YEAR been
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