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RICHARD CROKERS GOOD ORBY FILLY Winner for Him of Irelands Chief Race for TwoYearOlds J Peard will cherish pleasant memories of the meeting at Phoenix Park which closed en Saturday for his stable carried off five races during the two days and only failed by half a length to capture a sixth This last was the valuable Phmj nix Plate in which Mr PeardH filly Baby Bbiko succumbed to R Crokers Guilded Vanity which started a hot favorite The winner is by Orby Vain Glory and is therefore a sister to Orb Her dam is by Wildfowler Fraulein among whose other pro ¬ duce was included the flying Mauler Willie which was a littlu gold mine for the Arundel stable Ni wonder that Guilded Vanity can gallop bred a she is on both sides and when she meets her Cnr ragli conqueror Chiffre dAmonr again she will not lack backers for that was Mr Crokers fillyH first appearance on a racecourse and giving three pounds she was only beaten by threequartern of a length by Mr Peards mure experienced gray daughter of The Tetrarch TetrarchSome Some weeks ago Mr Croker declined to put a price on the daughter of Orby When asked by a leading Irish sportsman to do HO Mr Croker sent a cabled reply from America where he lias IMMII residing for some time past that the filly WIIH not for sale The IrlsliAniurlrjin sportsman liis been singulurly successful in the Phoenix Plalir which he has now won four times in fourteen years His first winner was Atlileagin in 1905 then cinic Clonbern in 110 followed by The Banshee in lOlli and by Guilded Vanity this year yearHer Her success bv a half length from Baby Blake was easily achieved and brings further posthumous honors to her sire Orby the Derby winner of 11M7 The Phoenix Plate is the most valuable twoyear old event run for in Ireland and may be regarded as the Middle Park Plate of that country though its distance is only fiveeighths as against three quarters of the Newmarket race The arrangement in respect to Guilded Vanity is that she shall next take part in the Anglesey Stakes at the Currncli In that event colts and fillies meet at strict weight forsex terms without penalties and allow ¬ ances the only difference in the imposts being Un ¬ customary allowance of four pounds to fillies London Sportsman
