The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-01
ENGLISHNEN BLAME
MAHFR FOR DEFEAT
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Ride on Pretty Polly Is Crit
icised by BaCkers of
Fleet Mare

LONDON, Nov. 3O.-Danny Maher, the
popular American jockey, has come in for
q share of adverse criticism over his rid
ing of Pretty Polly, the champion filly,
in the Prix du ConseiI Municipal at Paris,
when she was beaten by Presto, a French
colt. The English experts are of the opin-
ion that Maher waited too long on the
French horse and expected to smash him
the home stretch. This the great mare
failed to do, and Presto Won by two ana
q half lengths. In all the races which
Pretty Polly won previously she was
taken to the front early and cut out such
q pace that the others were unable to
give her serious trouble at the finish.
It was Pretty Polly's first defeat, if it
might be called so, but she was giving the
Frenchman fourteen pounds and after
stormy trip across the channel had only
breather or two on foreign turf. How
ever. it is understood that the mare will
not be seen in silk again this season, and
she goes into winter quarters with real
ly phenomenal record, her aggregate since
she began running being $l57, $50, the re-
suit Of fourteen consecutive victories
BY her winnings the mare has placed
Gallinule at the head of winning sires.
position which he is not likely to lose this
season How good the filly really is may
be gathered from her work in the Nassau
stakes at Goodwood. She won in a com
mon canter with 134 pounds on her back
and covered the mile and a half in min
Otes Al Is seconds. This is the same dis
tance as the Derby, and the record is
minutes 40 as seconds. by Volodyovski,
carrying 126 pounds. There is only the
difference of two-fifths of a second, and
there can be little doubt that if pressed
Pretty Polly could have reduced her time
by a couple Of seconds.
Pretty Polly is undoubtedly the great
est mare that ever trod the English turf,
greater than Virago, Achievement or
Sceptre She is owned by Major Loder
and was bred at the Curragh of Kildare.
She is 153 3 hands, chestnut and is out
of Admiration, by Galinule. Admiration
by Maj. Loder on June 20, 1898, at the
sale of the late Robert Peck at Newman
ket.
Gallinule. the sire. who Is now on every
mans tongue in England. was foaled in
1884, is by Isenony. out of Moor Hen, by
Hermit. out OF q mare by SkirmisheT,. out
of Nertumna, and an own sister to RySh-
worth, who ran two or three great races
With Belladrum Therefore his pedigree is
all that need be desired. His first appear
ance was in the Excelsior Breeders Foal
stakes at Leicester the first week in April,
1886 in which he ran unplaced. The stake
fell to Mr.. Abingdons Binder ridden by
the late Fred Archer. Gallinule did not
appear again until the Kempton park first
summer meeting. about the middle of
July, when he was made first fayorite
for the Queen Elizabeth stakes, and beat
three others Of no particular reputa-
ton.
the National Breeders Produce stakes at
Sandown park, and in this event he beat
Marley and five others by four lengths.
A short time after that i'm the Sandown
Nursery plate, he beat Binder, who was
many lengths in front of him when he
made his debut. He wound up his two
year-old season by running unplaeed in
the Chesterfield Nursery handicap at Der
by. GaIlinule thus won three out Of eight
races as a two -year-olG. and was kept
IN training for three seasons more, but
unfortunately never scored again
As 2 three-year-oid he had an easy time,
his first appearance being in the Jeiees-
tershiTe Spring handicap, in. which b '
started at Il TO l and ran unpiaced; nor