3-077-905 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Pony and Galloway races at the Ranelagh Club on Boat-Race Day, 1890. '1. Finishing the Toilet. 2. "Whoa, you brute! Take him away!'' 3. Final orders. 4. A veteran hero wins the Light Blue Handicap. On...March 26, the Ranelagh Club held its pony and galloway races at Barn Elms. The principal events were the Oxford or Dark Blue Handicap...in which the winner was Sir D. Milbank's Actor, ridden by Mr. Tippler; the Universities' Handicap, won by Mr. C. R. Packer's Maysie, ridden by Mr. J. Westhorpe...; the Ladies' Plate, for ponies, won by Mr. W. Sheaf's Little Amy; and finally..., the Cambridge or Light Blue Handicap....In the last-mentioned race, five ponies and galloways started - Mr. E. W. Jaquet's Early Morn, ridden by Mr. Lindsey Garrard, Mr. G. Bird's Brightness, Mr. C. B. Packer's Ruth, Mr. P. R. Tippler's Shah, and Mrs. Reeves's Sybil. After a very good start Early Morn was the first to show in front, and came on to the Stand a shade in advance of Shah and Brightness, with Sybil last...Brightness went up to Early Morn, getting her head in front two or three times. Early Morn again assumed the lead, and, although he went a trifle wide, held his place, and won a well-ridden race by half a length; Ruth was third, Sybil fourth, and Shah last'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.