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PRETTY POLLYS MARVELLOUS CAREER. The lata Major Loder had a sli.it bat exceptionally saeceasfal career on ih - turf ami won Innumerable races, taxing them the one Tbonsand Uniaeas, Oaks, Derby tad st. Lager, abm the Graod Prise of Paris; Indeed, the yellow, dark Mae sleeves Bad black cap wore m formidable thai aaaong his intimate- he was known a* lanky Loder." lie eras elected a mem bet af the Jockey Clnk la tM6 aad six .v ars later became s steward, bat, anfortanately, in his seconi year liaii to resign in eoaaeaaeace of the illaesa srhieh ended fatally. BpearoUat, porchased as a yearling foe . »h gaiaeas, added io bis repatatiou at oae of fartanes favorites by winning the Derby sod the Qraad Prise of Paris i» pecan ar circumstances, bat Major Loders name will ehsedy be remembered as the breeder and iwsa f thai ■ i rrssarkaMe mare. Pretty Polly, whose exploits oa the turf are doubtless fresh in memory, but wcr- p extraordbsary that ■ detailed refereace to theai here may be exeosed. She was never be s tea in this rooatrr, either as a two. three, four or Ire-year-. Id, until her mat race at Ascot, when not, perhaps, judiciously ridden, she soccuntbed by a length to Bachelors Button. Dp to that date her home record showed twenty-two consecutive victories to her credit, and nine af these were achiered in her fir t seasoB. she made ■ startling achat at Saadown, when, less fancied than either .I hn oUaunt. Jack Hawthorn or Lantino. she dashed away in front and matt home asaae tar the British Dominion Two-Year-old siakes. alanine, so far Qui asset of the OBlooken were prepared to hear that she had broken sway bj herself in a false start. Everything was. however, in order, and wo had not long to wait before being convinced that there was no ttnke about the performance and that the tilly was endowed with phenomenal spaed. This was made manifest exactly three weeks later when oa the same ground sh" tumped home in front of Bobrinski and Marsdcn for the National Breeders Predoee Stakes, and every-c in was then eoarlaeed that she was a real smasher. In a foatrat roamttfl to the pair Navarre could not extead her in the Mersey stakes at Liverpool and in Stock the same style she annexed the Champagne Makes a; Koncaster. where Lancashire and St. Amant were her nearest opjxments. At Manchester she had an easy task to win the Autumn Breeder- Foal Plate from Don Paez. and nexl took the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket, preliminary to the Middle Park Plate, in which event she was three lengths too good far St. Ain.int. but I remember that Lane had •■ shake her Up a bit. easily as she eventually beat Hands Down single handed in the Criterion Stakes, though nothing could have in-, a more convincing than the style in which she won the Moulton Stakes the following day. As a three-year- hi she carried all before her until she went to Prance, to be tlukily beaten by Presto II. i" the Prix dtl Conseil Municipal. At home she scored seven limes, commencing with a hollow victory in the One Thousand Guineas, when, erltk 4 to 1 laid on her. she simply made hacks of all her opponents. Only three had the temerity to oppose her in the Oak-, in which race she was never extended, and oqnalh- easy tasks awaited hi r in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot and the Nass an ; I Stakes at Qoodwood. At Doncaster she had to I tackle, SOl nag others. St. Amant in the St. Ixger. I 1 nt the Derby winner, who was not always in racing humor, nuade an indifferent show, and P. llvs nearest attendant past the Judge was Henry the First, at an interval of three lengths, which roald hare bean doubled or trebled at the will of her pilot: it was. in fact, one of the easiest Sell Inoar victories within my memory. In the circumstances it was surprising to see four opponents turn out against her for the Park Hill Stakes, and her penalty had n.- deter teat effect, as she continued In her own sweet ami Impressive w into win as she pleased, while to wind up the season she shouldered the big harden of 133 pounds, gave sixteen pi ends to R.vdiil Head and beat him point leas for the Free Hanlcap. Among her victims ill the small field of lour on thai occasion was St. Amant and Inasmuch as Irrespective of sex she was giving him threi i ui .Is. it is a fair in-Vren.e that Mr. Leopold de Bothschilds horse was lncky In so far thai the Mr Ralllnnle mare did not i ross his path in the Derby. How such a horse as Presto II. ever beat her. ST. for that matter Zinfandel. is Incomprehensible unless attributable to the deep ground or to constitutional upset by the cross-Channel trio. In the following year neither Zinandol nor the -mart Preach horse, Cains, could "hold a candle" to her in the race for ihe Coronation Cop at Epsom, and after a long interval she caste out again to smother Hacklers Pride in a duel for the Champion stakes: then, with nothing but Mondamin to beat. Pretty Poly had practically a walk-over for the Limekiln Stakes, and finally, receiving seven pounds, -in- deprived Bachel .rs Button of the Jockey Club Cup, although Mr. S. B. Joels horse squared accounts when he turned the tables next year in the Ascot Cap, before which the mare had appropriated he March Stakes at Newmarket and a second Coronation Cup at Epsom. In every sense Pretty Polly was a grand mare. and 1 should say decidedly the best of Gallinulel progeny, many as were the g oil horses sired by that remarkable sprinter, which had a habit of rapturing blood vessels when in training:. Admira tion. the mares dam. was of no great account 00 ihe turf. and. being by Saraband, out of f;a~o. by Thuringlan Prince, can hardly be described as fashionably bred, but she has been prolific at the stud, with other good ones to her credit liesides Pretty Polly, which, like many another first-class stare, has not so far been a tncecaa in tie paddock. Her first mate was Laveno, to whom she missed also to • Spearmint in the following season, while to pile up the disappointment sic slipped twins by him in her third year This was a bad beginning, indeed, and, 1 1 though she produced Polygonum to Spearmint in 1911. be was not of much account. Stilt be man aged lo scramble home m front for s Maiden Plate at Wolverhampton as a three-year-old, at the close of which season be died. A similar fate befell St. Polvcarp. by St. Frusquin, which only survived one race as a tw o-year old. and ore have yet to make ecooaiatance with her now two year old colt by Spearmint. Admiration was purchased by Major Loder for 510 guineas as a yearling. Hamincrkop. by Gallranle, out of Concussion, by Reverberation. and winner of ih - Ci -arewitch. has also been unfortunate at the stud, but that i- not surprising. seeing that she was kept in training until she was nine year- old, and after producing Martellina Io Laveaa she had dead foals by Bpenrmtnl and St. Frusquin respectively, and was then mated again with the former sire. Vigilant, in London Sportsman. __
