Identifier: greatyearlordgla00wats (find matches)
Title: A great year Lord Glanely's horses
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Glanely, Lord, 1868-1942 Horses Horse racing Horses
Publisher: (London) : Printed for private circulation by Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London Fourth Avenue & 30th Street, New York Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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at 6 to 5, with Buchan—for Lord Basil had finally
dropped out—and Paper Money at 7 to 1. Smith on
Dominion wore the first colours, Templeman on Grand
Parade had a distinguishing cap. The two were run-
ning strictly on their merits, but, as indicated, the better
of them was less fit and forward than the other.
A curious circumstance in connection with the
Derby of 1919 is that it came near to being started in
the old-fashioned way by flag. Something went
wrong with the electric release of the gate shortly
after the race and the last three events on the card
which followed the Derby were started as Derbies
used to be. Thirteen went to the post, the same
number as in the previous year, one more than in
1917, and it may be added seventeen fewer than when
Durbar II. won in 1914. Backers of The Panther
had cause for alarm. He evinced the strongest
objection to joining his horses. If it were a case of
high courage his courage was dangerously high, and
it may be at once said that at no period of the race did

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Photo : W. A. Rouch
GRAND PARADE WINNIING THE DERBY, 1919

THE GREAT YEAR

he threaten danger. The course was in very bad
condition, with little herbage and patches of adaman-
tine hardness. An excuse is made for Paper Money
that he put his foot in a hole, but he ran remarkably
well nevertheless, so much so that at the old landmark
which used to be spoken of as The Bell his backers
were beginning to proclaim his triumph. At the
critical moment, however, it became evident that the
bearer of Sir Walter Gilbeys chocolate and yellow
stripe, scarlet cap, could not compete with Lord
Astor's light blue, pink sash and cap, or with Lord
Glanely's more sombre jacket. Sir Hedworth Meux's
sea-green, turquoise cap, on Sir Douglas, had momen-
tarily raised some hope, but in the last hundred and
fifty yards the issue had come to be between Grand
Parade and Buchan. It was natural to feel appre-
hensive that the lack of his winding-up gallops and of
incidental work might tell upon Grand Parade in the
last few strides ; but he stuck gallantly to his task and
holding his own passed t

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