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GREAT ENGLISH TWO-YEAR-OLDS. The Tetrarchs two-year-old career, though sutli-eiently remarkable, does not constitute ;i record. That distinguished younster carried off seven races to the value of 5,000, and has never been seriously extended, let alone beaten. How good the roan-grey really Is it must be left to time to reveal, but that he is a colt of exceptional brilliance is an assertion beyond dispute. He lias smashed up all opposition in relentless style, and made Storno-way, the best juvenile Richard Wootton has ever had in his charge, appear little better than a plater. Donovan, the Duke of Portlands llier, was a greater juvenile winner than this 1918 crack. At two years old the son of Galopin and Mowerina won no less a sum than ,435, representing 11 easily-gained victories. Rut his escutcheon at that age was not free from the blemish of defeat. Pretty Pollys juvenile career surpassed that of The Tetrarch, though even that superb filly did not win her races with the amazing ease of the grey. She ranks second to Donovan as a stakes-winner, accounting in the 1002 season for nine races worth in all 1914.sh7,190. liayardo in 190.S carried olT seven races, and was undefeated. He credited Mr. Fairie with the large sum of 1914.sh5,190, while his half-brother, the none-loo-lucky Lenibcrg. won six events the season following, their value being li.S0. Signorina, lieloved of Chevalier Ginistrelli, was a most brilliant two-year-old. She went through her first season undeafeated. though her contemporaries, including as they did Surefoot, Lo Nord, Heaunie, Memoir. Semolina, the ill-fated Riviera, Marlagon, ISlue Green, and others, were much above the average. She won nine races, including the Mldd!" Park Plate to tne value of 8,525, and was assuredly one of tho best youusters over seen. Like u.any other good fillies, however, she did not make proportional improvements between two and three years, a more recent example of this decadence being Lesbia, which was not beaten when a two-year-old, and won 0,100. Lord Falmouths Ral Gal was a conspicuous example, too, of a loss of form. In 1SS0, her first season on the turf, this brilliant filly won eight races, and their value totalled to f53,3. Horses that have won over .10,000 in the juvenile stage .if their career have been few. One of them was Mac-heath, a handsome son of Macaroni, which carried almost all before him in 1andS2. The great little Hard, only unfortunate in having fallen across an Ormonde, had an extraordinary two-year-old career. This --on of the delicate and un-ccrlain Petrarch actually won sixteen races, amounting t 5,910. That, of course, was in 1SS5. a season fertile in unbeaten two-year-olds. Ormonde, then rather backward and unfurnished, was undefeated, ! and the splendid, dray-horse-like Minting had won all Ills five races in style not to be impeached. The hitters juvenile winnings amounted, I find, to 0.9SO. There were giants in the land in those days Saraband. St. Mirin, Gay Hermit, Philosophy, Mephisto and Ste. Alvere being products of that vintage year. St. Frusquin, though he just failed in the Imperial Plate at Kempton to concede much weight to the sjseedy Teufel, was a great two-year-old. Orme. in 1MU. was also five times successful, his winnings amounting to 0.S70. Ayrshire 1SS7 won five times, and credited his owner with 2,S25, but his juvenile career was utterly eclipsed by that of Friars Ralsam, a colt whose brilliance even The Tetrarch lias scarcely surpassed. This son of Hermit won seven times as a two-year-old, and invariably scored with ease. The facile way in which he accounted for Ayrshire and Seabreeze stamped him as an extraordinary colt, for the two celebrities last-named between them won the Two Thousand, Derby, Oaks and St. Leger of the ensuing year. Friars Ralsanfs winnings reached 8,880. .Many Derby winners also were unbeaten at two years of age, but space prevents my going on to tell of them and of such great performers as Polar Star, Cyllene, Ganiecliick and many another star actor of the turf. Guv R. II. Logan, in "I.S. and D.N."
