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... A LEADING newspaper published a semi-scientific article on the morning of the great race, in which the writer, very properly, pointed out that the two mares in the race Sheila's Cottage and Zahia were the least likely to succeed. No mare had won the race since Shannon Lass triumphed in 1902. Yet, such are the hazards of the steeplechase, Sheila's Cottage won and Zahia very nearly won, her ...

... A FEW of the many incidents in the Grand National are pictured on these pages but for practically every horse and rider the race was packed with adventure from start to finish. Mr. F. N. Gee's marc, Zahia (E. Rcavey), was perhaps the unluckiest of all the candidates. Approaching the last fence she was close on the heels of First of the Dandies and apparently going the more j strongly of the ...

... THE University Boat Race, one of the great national sporting events, will be rowed on Saturday, March 27. The crews appeared on the tideway nearly three weeks ago and attracted a critical crowd of rowing men anxious to estimate the relative form of the rival Universities. Oxford have three old Blues, and A. J. R. Purssell occupies his last year's position as stroke. Cambridge also have three ...

... DERBY RACECOURSE was the scene of the fifly-seventh Spring Stallion Show of the Hunters'' Improvement and National Light Ilorse Breeding Society, at which H.I.S. Premiums and Super Premiums were awarded for the 1948 season. The judges were Mr. Adrian Scrope and Mr. Noel A. Wenman. HENRY TUDOR was awarded the King George V Champion Challenge Cup for the best thoroughbred stallion and H.I.S. and ...

... The Dublin I Bull Show I ENTRIES at the Royal Dublin Society's Show and Sale of pure-bred bulls at Ballsbridge showed a decrease in all breeds by comparison with last year's figures, the total being 743 against 921, but the general standard, particularly in the Dairy Short horn section, was high. The thirty-three animals exhibited in the class for Dairy Shorthorn bulls calved between September ...

... Members' Day at East Mailing Demonstrations 011 Fruit Propagation and Compost Making THE East Mailing Research Station held one of its Members' Days on March it, when more than three hundred farmers and fruit growers attended the demonstration. The more important items were those con cerned with the propagation of rootstocks and the raising of young trees. During the morning Mr. R. J. Garner ...