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CROKERS ORBY IS A GOOD COLT. When Bichard inkers three year-old rheataat cnii Drhy, by Orme Bhadi B., won the Earl of Seltoiis Plate, a handicap at seven eigfatha of a mile, at Liverpool. Manh -■■. the London Sporting Life said: •■irishmen farm s,. huge 1 proportion of the visitors to Ainiree thai one needs no information from the number board when an animal bailing li .in the disthres-ful cuunthty happens tu scare. Bach a shawl as greeted the saecem of Orby In the Barl of Seftons Plate inishi have beea h.ard on the beach at New Brighton Mr. Bom Croker has not re icieii much encouragement from the higher powers to race in Kiulaml. and he larch M mis anythutg here except to I Iwrpaol - w hi.h has tin proper aliuosphere. iirby is a maiiiiiliceut specimen of the Ibaiiaighlimd and will do stiil better with time, thaaajh it will be gptte Impoaaihie to score with greater facility. Orhy hi well bred pa bath sides — by nniie aal ot Bhnda B -aad tralaed at Mr. Crnkeis I hSI mlng estate in Irehiiul Where, a- in s»iiie pans of Auieri a. the gram teed seenta to make niore bone and substance than mir Baglhm " pastures. Khoda V... the dam of Orby. is in Aaaerican bred mare. She is by Hanover out "I Margeriae, b] Algtliat, and therefore a full sister lo The Coin- 1 r. Hhoda 15. was bred by Harry Stanhope In Kentucky and was foaled in UK. Bhe was soli a-a jealiint to Air. Croker and he scut bur lo his place i,i in land in the fall of 1896. Mr. Croker had the yeai before purchased her full brother and scut bim :■• i the Atlantic. Ti is bone be named Prince ton but be never amounted to macfa as a race Kli.i.l.i B. waa rued mil;, a- a two -year old In is.i? and -h.- w.m the Exiling Plate at Newmarket the in -i crack oat ol the box tor Br. Croker. She was mated with Dobbins in 1899 and her iii -i foal n*as the chestnut colt Jennico, which came in iiu- s|!in- ill li The following year she was barren and ii. 1909 came lbs baj BUy Bhododemnron, by Ameriens. She waa barren agafai in 1993 and the next year she produced Orby. Her two-year-old is i brown Bib. named Khodora, by St. Praanjam. ii bj did not la.c in Kii.huiil last %car lie ran two races in Ireland, finishing third in the Londou-diri.v Plate at la ■upati -tow ii mil third in the Bail wsj stakes at Curragh, which was won by Electric l: his slal.leinale. .lenuiin and KhudiNlenilruti were both winner--. The liiicr was unbeaten as a n ■ • year i l.l la 1906.
