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THE ROYAL HUNT CUP WINNER. In England It has long been a custom on the part ot shrewd betting owner* to save a high class two vim old until it is a four or tive veal old in the I... I. of bringing off a gnat betllng coup at long .si, Is and light weight. I suallv the horse is raced n little, sufficient in educate It In an Inconspicuous way. a wa designed in advance to keep It oliscure and practically absent from the minds of the ..111. la 1 nan. li. uppers. Haik Kouald. the winner of the Roval Hunt Cut. at Ascot. In which Sir Martin ran nn placed, furnishes a case In |s.int. The horse rail twice as a two year old, not at all as a three year old and twice this year prior to the Ascot uniting. In his ttrst start as a two-year old he won the Hurst Park Foal Plata at Hurst Park, defeating some crv go.sl two v car olds. Ills onh other start was in the tireal Foal Plate at Mngllehl lark. In" which he ran s.-end to Little Flutter. That he was not riii.-.l at all the next year was sutticleut to create the Impression hat he had gone amiss or had lurueil out to I.e of little accoiiut as a three year old. This year he made his re appearance on the turf In the Newbury Spring Cup at Newbury anil, with liHi rounds up. ran unplaced to Arranmore. Roval Realm and Summer. Then, at the Leicester meeting. April 7. he won a 3900 plate from Common place opiH.nents and then was given the grand polish and being handicapped at but 100 pounds, won the big race at Ascot in competition with the fastest harm in England. When it Is considered that tin-three Placed horses in the Royal Hunt Cup were tour vi ur olds, the yvinner carrying 100 pounds, the sei-oml horse 112 pounds and the third but 87, il .an be sen that to expect Sir Martin, a three-year old. to win wllh HO pounds up. was on the Is.nler line of absurdity. He was asked to do what no thris- year old had ever done In the race and what no three year old In England could do. The Rovtl Hunt Cup Ixing notoriously a race that annniillv brings alsiiit tremendous betting, there Is little reason to doubt that Dark Ronalds success brought a huge reward for the careful management Dial kept him in the background so long ami foohsl I he a. I jnster of weights so completely.
