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Identifier: greatyearlordgla00wats
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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eet Louise ; Bay dOr—Sandtoft;Roi Herode—Jeunesse ; Argosy—Grey Flier ;Quantock—Melton Fuse and Swynford—Amoureuse.The fillies are daughters of Mount William andEstrella ; Argosy and Elm Twig ; Argosy and Kitty 213 A GREAT YEAR Muldoon ; Argosy and Katusha; Captivation andWelsh Rarebit; Mount William and Polly Dimples ;Quantock and Mentha ; White Magic and Miss L.Thrush. The foals of 1921 number twenty-three, of whomtwelve are colts. The sons of Grand Parade, tosummarise, are out of Excellent, Acclamation, Jeunesseand Amoureuse ; sons of He are out of White Squall,Maid of Sker, Sandtoft and Queen Empress ; thereare three Skyrockets out of Little Thoughts, SweetLouise and Witch of the Wave, together with a Treclareout of Lady Fowler. Six of the eleven fillies are byGrand Parade, their dams Tingvalla, Estrella, Katusha,Polly Dimples, Mentha and First Flier. Daughtersof He are out of Pitch Blend, Elm Twig and LadyJuliet, those of Skyrocket out of Anthracite and LittleMabel. 214
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POSTSCRIPT Westward Ho ! and Blue Ensign The book must not be allowed to close without afew words on the subject of two horses to whom specialattention has been directed, for one reason, becauseof the prices that were given for them. In such casesit is not always borne in mind that the money paidat auction does not merely advance evidence of awealthy mans determination to gain possession of acertain colt. The purchase price represents the value,there or closely thereabouts, in the opinion of morethan one presumable authority ; for the owner whoacquires the lot has headed the offer of the penultimatebidder. At the Doncaster sales in 1919 none of the year-lings attracted quite so much admiration as a brownson of Swynford and Blue Tit. It was obvious thatthere would be keen competition for him, which ofcourse means that he was bound to fetch an extra-ordinary price, and great curiosity existed to knowwho would last longest, would stay to the fall of the 215 A GREAT YEAR hammer. For 11,50
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