WEEKLY FROLIC
A spectacular cavalry charge over the final flight, resulting in a triumph for the handi- capper, characterised last Saturday's Schwep- pes, and I, at least, felt considerably less sheepish with my wrong, but game, outsider than I suspect did the numerous followers of the over-rated favourites for whom no ex- cuses could be found. Harder to swallow was the neck defeat of Inch Arran—he would have returned the princely sum of £25 and is unlikely to appear again so favourably weighted and priced.
A trifle dispirited, but with £90.25, by no means dead yet, fortune will surely be kinder at Chepstow this Saturday for the Welsh Grand National. No Aintree favourites, but with a large field of twenty-three pretty evenly-matched horses and 3 miles 6 furlongs to run, luck will play as large a part as the form book in finding the winner. I personally favour four of them—Autumn Cardinal and Bonnie Highlander, both triple ,winners this season, Royal Toss who just failed to catch Charles Dickens in a controversial race at Newbury last Friday and consistent Rainbow Valley. My final decision is the first of these, who with 10 stone 12 lb seems reasonably weighted considering that he beat the highly- thought of Arctic Actress at Warwick last time. Two races later Tybalt is worth a small interest in the Ralph Morel Challenge Cup, where he could hustle the heavily-burdened Fortina's Palace and Sonny Somers; and up at Newcastle, Titus Oates should not be troubled by the opposition, whom he meets at level weights, in the Trout Steeplechase. Outlay ; £3 ew Autumn Cardinal, £1 ew Tybalt and £2 to win 'Titus'.
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