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NOTES OF RECENT RACING IN ENGLAND Floran and Ilospodar have left the paddocks at Ashtead for abroad the firstnamed going to Brazil and Hospodars destination is Germany GermanyOf Of all the newspaiMT prophets who tried to pick the winner of tin Lincolnshire Handicap for their readers only Warren Hill of London Sporting Life named tho winner Berrilldou and be made a con led selection of Uncle Pat or Berrilldon BerrilldonThe The first of the get of Colin to start iu a race was H de Courcey Fortes filly Colinette which ran in the Public Sale Stakes at Alexandra Park March 20 The track was extremely heavy and getting away poorly the filly had scant chance ami finished an easing up fourth fourthAt At Newbury last Friday tho Greenham Stakes of 5000 for threeyearolds at a mile straight was won by H llultons buy colt Sliogun by Shntijir Kendal Belle with Sir John Willonghbys Jiihiosffu second and W Hall Walkers Kingsterongh third It was Shoguns first start as a threeyoarolAirtd may make him the Derby favorite especially ssliice Craganoiir was beaten at Liverpool LiverpoolGeorge George Swift in his time one of the best known jockeys died on Saturday night Mjlrcli 20 at New market aged eightyone He won a numter of im ¬ portant raci s during his career and for some years acted ns principal trial jockey atMatthew Dawsous stable He always claimed that while at this es ¬ tablishment he taught Fred Archer to ride Amongst the celebrated horses Swift was associated with were Ayrshire Donovan Semolina Raeburn and Amiable Swift once broke both his legs during a race and was twelve mouths in a hospital hospitalCompeting Competing with the fastest sprinters in England the Cosarion coit Forward which ran so well in this country last year ran a capital race in the Batthyany Plate at Lincoln Marcli 31 and should have won but lost to Black Cap and Beau Bois by a head and a half length because his rider a boy named W Smyth did not appear to know the best thing to do when challenged as foudon Sporting Life expressed it Such celebrities as Great Surprise Hornets Beauty Hallaton and Ab ¬ surd were among those which finished tehiiid For ¬ ward Hornets Beauty being a 2 to 1 favorite
