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I I FINE OLD POETHLYN IS DONE Welsh Steeplechase Champion, Which Won Two Grand Nationals, Retired. That noble ..hi Welsh steeplechaser Potblya. which in Knglish is whiskey, has gone for good. He w i~ owned by Mr-. Hugh Peel, a keen hunting field pet soaage in Eaglaad and Ireland Imth PoHhlya won the "sofi" Uatwk-k Rraad Sa tional of IBM and Ihe Liven I Orand National of ltilii mosi gallantly, under 17a |miui.i1- in a field of iweaty-twa banes. He was being pn -pared for an other try for the Great Ainlree ra.es when lie hopclesaly broke down ten days ago H. K-coti f.f Lewes, win. Iratea Daetttete, pre pared Poetblya for his later great races and Piggett rode him. loeihlyn wa- well on his way to readtaeea at IjHcs when he went to pie CHI so far as his legs were tried and he has been retired for all lime and sent lo end his days in a I . yn-y-l.i s paddock at Kllesmere in Shropshire, when the Iecis live. r.iethlyn i- eleven yean old. by Bydal Head Fine Chaiiipagne hi- dam siiggi sled his spirilual name and began and ended his career as a ereaa couiury horse. He firs: raced in 1914 as a four-year-old and had five hard seasons of it. After two indifferent rears loeihlyn came into the Oral .jumping .lass •mil from 1917 beal the beat as they came along. In 191n Paethlyn won the Gataricfe substitute Gnad National and I-iii.a-hite Handicap and in 1919 look all his races, including tic real Liverpool Grand National at Aintree under 17." pounds. In MSB he was favorite for the National again, nut fell ai ihe firs, feace, was a cripple the day after and has naver raced since. Thus one of the finest steeplechasers in the world of a decade ends his career. *-
