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PRETTY POLLY FILLY IS SUCCESSFUL Polly Flinders Wins a .Great Stake Race and Defeats the Speedy Milesius. Pretty Polly has a two-year-old daughter named Polly Flinders, which can race in a way suggestive of something of the manner of her famous mother. At the recent Sundown Park meeting she won the rich National Breeders Produce Stakes of 3,330 net value to the winner. The crack colt Milesius was the favorite nnd was confidently expected to win by his stable connections, though burdened with 131 pounds to 110 on Polly Flinders. She led throughout and won. by two lengths, whereat there was great and genuine rejoicing, largely because she is a daughter of the one-time idol or the English turf public. Concerning the race and its participants, the Sporting Chronicle said: "Close observers would have noted how well Polly Flinders shaped against Milesius at Ast, when she was running an altogether different race to Saturdays, and here she was renewing hostilities with a vast pull in the .weights. Yet tworycar-olds can give weight at Sandown more easily tlian at most other places it is a far easier track,thari it looks and Cottrill thought the gray colt to be quite ten pounds better than when he last appeared In public. "The latter has fined down a little, the while showing midsummer fitness, and slns of being thoroughly well in himself were apparent by his sedate appearance in the paddock nnd the life with which he strode to the post. Neither iii length of reach nor evenness of action was Polly" outrivaled by the colt, however, and if a cl?ar advantage physically rested with him to the exteut that he is more strongly developed behind the saddle, the others racy build, and. style spoke of trouble in store for Milesius directly she got on the course. "Milesius made some fojr himself as soon as he reached the post, for he would do anything for a time but set himself to attention, and his refusal to line up sufficiently upset the filly which was next, to iiim to Inspire the idea that the dispatch might favor the better behaved Oubliette, a sharp looking sort, which was quite expected to run up to her book form. ABOUT THE RACE. "The start found Polly Flinders a shade the lest prepared for it, but it was of her own quickness, too, at finding-full stride that she was soon well ahead of Milesius. As a matter of fact he never threatened. In turn he had an early advantage over Oubliette, but he gradually fell back and, after having been headed by the Manton- trained filly, just a splutter of an attempt to recover the challengers position from her, which failed, was all the remaining interest he had in the race. Oubliette did at least gqt near enough to. warrant Martin showing the whip to Polly Flinders, which was shortening stride in the last hundred and fifty yards, but ther,e was never any danger, nor is Oubliette likely to run the winner to a couple of lengths again at Saturdays weights. "As for Milesius lie probably ran a stone below his best, but at such best he has no pretensions to give the winner twelve pounds more than weight-for-sex. We shall be seeing him in a different light another day, but Polly Flinders should make all the improvement he is likeiy to do the end of the season, and it is pleasant to think that something has come along at length to remind us of an old favorite, although yesterdays winner may have inherited the speedy rather than the robust qualities which ninde her mother famous. "Pretty Polly was s.tout in addition to .being abnormally fast, and although when making what proved to be her farewell appearance, in the Ascot Cup. she suffered defeat, it was less the superior stamina of Bachlors Button and more her own temporary physical disability which brought ab,6ut her downfall. The great mare was obviously out of sorts, and for the only time in her career did she show reluctance to follow her faithful pony companion on to the course." ,
