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246 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE du Conseil Municipal be counted. This 1,200-guinea filly won more than 13,000 guineas in stakes, and for the paddocks had, of course, become worth a great deal more than her original cost. Merry Moment stands to her credit. In speaking of an owner’s luck there is sometimes a veiled detraction of his judgment; but though I have made this reference, it is certainly without the reflection suggested. It is good luck to buy such a mare as this one proved herself to be, but the judgment admittedly came first. While Merry Gal was familiarising racegoers with the check jacket, Colonel Hall Walker was devoting himself to the task of building up the Tully Stud in Kildare, buying mares, putting up accommodation for them and their produce, and generally designing an establishment which was to be a model of what a stud farm should be. Winners soon began to arrive, one of the first being Sandboy, to whom in due time the Chester Cup amongst other races was to fall. Often the Tully youngsters ran first in Ireland, and it is always difficult to sum up the Irish form with an approxi mation to accuracy ; thus Jean's Folly may have been over-rated, or it may be she trained off, for when she came to run for the Chippenham Plate at the Newmarket First Spring Meeting of 1904, rumour had it that this was a great mare, and she won so easily that when she reappeared 2 to 1 was laid on her; but she failed. That she should not have beaten Zinfandel, Sceptre, and Rock Sand for the Epsom Coronation Cup is not surprising; still, although she was a disappointment, her half-sister, Cherry Lass, went far to put things straight. I am not in the least disposed to join in the controversy which breaks out at times about the relative merits of English and Irish bred horses ; we breed some good ones in England, a considerable proportion of good ones come from across the Irish Channel; thus, looking up the performances of the daughter of Isinglass and Black Cherry, I note that the last three races of the Kempton Meeting in 1904 fell to representatives of Ireland in Delaunay, Cherry Lass (who gave Golden Measure 6 lb. in the Free Handicap, and beat him three lengths), and Water Chute; Pretty Polly having won the last race the day before. As a three-year-old Cherry Lass was a brilliant specimen of what Tully could turn out. She won the One Thousand comfortably, starting at 5 to 4, the price, however, being quite unimportant to her owner as he does not bet; she won the Oaks in a canter, 5 to 4 on this time; and, 100 to 6 on, beat Polymelus in the St. James’s Palace Stakes at Ascot. The Duchess of York Plate at Hurst Park gave her another chance of defeating the Oaks second, Queen of the Earth, the first Flying Fox filly to run in England. The Nassau was a.