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ENGLANDS WINNING FEMININE OWNERS There was the customary big attendance for the last meeting of the season at Alexandra Park. The rain caused the going to be somewhat sticky, but the fields were of good size for all the more important events, and the chief race, the London Autumn Cup of 1,000 sovereigns attracted the biggest field of the day, fourteen of the eighteen left in going to the post. The Chattis Hill trainer, Persse, relied upon Roideur in preference to Dromio, whereas Wootton was doubly represented -by Sil-vanite and Miss Cheek. Of these last the weil-bred Silvanite, which is by Lonawand the dam of Silver Tag and Fifinella, ran prominently for nearly a mile, when Rich Gift, which had earlier gone to the front, was passed, by Grandcourt, which won easily from Roideur and the outsider Wilkin. To riiy mind, although not in the first four at the finish, Kith Gift was second best. The favorite, Mnpledurham, ran disappointingly, as did also Wilson. The winner, Grandcourt, had been unluckily beaten earlier in the week at Newmarket, and many people, who remembered that he had run second here in July for the London Cup won by Double or Quits, did not lose orer his success. Ho is owned by a lady, Mrs. Algernon Cor, who thus added one more triumph to the number already this season gained by ladies. It is truly a portentous list, for Lady Queensberry won the "Lincolnshire" ami City and Suburban with Royal Bucks, Mrs. Peel secured the Grand National and Lancashire Handicap Steeplechase by aid of Poethlyn. and Lady James Douglas the Oaks witii Baynda. ThenLudy Torrington. scored various successes with Rich Gift, All Alone, etc., and Madame Varipatis colors have been carried to tiie fore by about ten different horses, of which Gleneskaki, Slippery Anne and LEspion have done best, while Lady Nelson has won good races with Tetrarehia and Main Royal. Grandcourt, which is -trained by Farquharson, is by Captivation son of Cyllene, and is a well-bred Colt, for his dam, La Huppe, is by Grebe half-brother to Eager La Niche, by Hagioscope." The blood of the last-named is always of value In a pedigree, whether it be in the male line, as in Queens Birthday and Saritoi, or on the dams side of a pedigree, as in the present case. "Vigilant" in London Sportsman.
