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PRETTY POLLYS BROTHER A WINNER. The first day of racing at Ascot liitrisluced to the English lacing public a two-year old that may lie the crack youngster of the year. This was Major Eustace LodcCs chestnut colt by .lalllniile Admiration, which won the rich Coventry Stakes iin.l Is a full brother to the noted mare. Preltv Polly. The latter shares with Sceptre the fame of lieing one of the two Is-st race mares of the last ten years and won twenty-two races in twenty four stalls, being second each time she was beaten. Her first defeat was by Mr. Vaud.-rbllts great colt. Presto, in the Pri du Conscil MuuicliNtl at Paris. France, when she was a three-year old. and her second bv Sol Joels Bachelors Button in the Gold Cup at As»ot, when she was a five year-old. it lieing her last race. The Coventry Stakes winner is now entitled to a name and one may have been given him after his successful debut. While this new star arose, the brilliancy of another was dimmed by detent, the hitherto milieu ten Jreeiihaek running third to the Sundridge — Pas.iull filly and Mr. Whitneys Top o the Morning iu the Fitty second Ascot Biennial Stakes for two-year olds. Greenback had live pounds penalty, making his weight 131 pounds, which, of course, was liound Io tell when meeting horses of his own class. It was Dip © the Mornings first race and. in finishing In front of ireenback. he did credit to his ancestry, he Ising by Hamburg, from the late William C. Whitneys favorite broodmare. Morulngside.
