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GALICIA
HER FORBEARS AND HER OFFSPRING
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GALICIA
HER FORBEARS AND HER
OFFSPRING
BY
ALFRED E. T. WATSON
ASSISTANT EDITOR OF "THE BADMINTON LIBRARY," SECTIONAL EDITOR OF THE
"encyclopedia BKITANNICA," EDITOR "BADMINTON MAGAZINE," AUTHOR OF
"king EDWARD VII AS A SPORTSMAN," "SKETCHES IN THE HUNTING
FIELD," "RACECOURSE AND COVERTSIDE," "THE RACING WORLD
AND ITS INHABITANTS," " THE TURF," "RACING AND
'chasing," "lord derby's racehorses" (printed
/or private circulation), ETC.
WITH 30 ILLUSTRATIONS
PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR MR. A. W. COX ("MR. FAIRIE")
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
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CONTENTS
I. GALICIA AND HER PARENTAGE
II. BAY RONALD
III. BAYARDO ....
IV. LEMBERG ....
V. SILESIA, ZIA, AND RADAMES
VI. BAYARDO AT THE STUD
33
119
157
171
The Pedigree of Bayardo
The Pedigree of Lemberg
177
178
I
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Photographs by W. A. ROUCH and CLARENCE Hailey
PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES
Galicia .......... Frontispiece
From a Painting in the possession of her Owner.
Bayardo To face page 71
From the Painting by A. C. Havell.
Bayardo with his Trainer, Alec Taylor
(D. Maher up) „ loi
Cyllene „ 120
Lemberg led in after winning The Derby,
1910 » 132
Lemberg just after winning The Derby,
1910 „ 143
Facsimile of Note by Owner on naming of
Bayardo Between pages iiZ Si \i()
HALF-TONE PLATES
Galopin, Sire of Galicia To/ace page 2
Speedwell Paddocks, Newmarket . . „ 12
Green Lodge, Newmarket (Mr. J. Ryan in
front), where Galicia was trained
when she won her first Race at Ascot „ 23
The Manton Stables „ 27
Bay Ronald „ 33
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Mr. Fairie's" House on The Severals at
Newmarket Tofacepage 69
Bayardo as a Three-Year-Old ... „ 81
Bayardo winning the Eclipse Stakes from
Royal Realm, Santo Strato, and Your
Majesty, 1909 „ 89
The St. Leger Field, 1909. Bayardo on
extreme left of the Picture ... „ 91
Bayardo jumping off at the Start for the
St. Leger, 1909 „ 92
Bayardo winning the St. Leger from
Valens and Mirador, 1909 ... „ 94
Bayardo gets rid of his Jockey at the
Start for the Ascot Gold Cup, 1910 . „ 103
Bayardo leading the Field for the Ascot
Gold Cup at the bottom turn, 1910 . „ 104.
On the Manton Downs .... ,,106
Lemberg as a Two-Year-Old .... „ 122
Lemberg whilst in Training .... „ 128
Lemberg winning the Derby from Green-
back AND Charles O'Malley, 1910 . . „ 130
Lemberg's Toilet at Sherwood's Cottage
AFTER the Derby, 1910 .... „ 134
Lemberg, on the right, jumping off for
THE St. James's Palace Stakes, Ascot,
1910 ,, 136
Lemberg and Neil Gow dead-heating for
THE Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park,
1910 ), 138
Lemberg at the Stud „ 156
"Mr. Fairie's" Paddocks at Newmarket . „ 164
The latest Portrait of Galicia, taken
while on a visit to Cicero, April 1915. „ 170
Bayardo at the Manton Stud ... „ 172
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GALIGIA
HER FORBEARS AND HER OFFSPRING
CHAPTER I
GALICIA AND HER PARENTAGE
The reputation of a horse quickly fades. Ideas
exist as to which were absolutely the best ever
known, it being generally assumed that the ques-
tion is between St. Simon and Ormonde, two
who were never beaten — and it is exceedingly rare
for any horse to escape at least one defeat — though
admirers of other animals hold exalted opinions
of them. But the great horse who has stood out
from his contemporaries is soon forgotten, nor
can accurate details concerning him, the achieve-
ments on which his fame rests, be easily found.
They are hidden away in the files of old sporting
papers, of other papers, indeed, for at any rate
of late years there have been few journals which
have not devoted considerable space to racing.
But these publications are not readily acces-
sible. Articles in a magazine now and then, or a
GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
chapter in a casual book which deals with the
sport, would also supply particulars more or less
authoritative if it were known where such infor-
mation was to be discovered. But it is only in
extremely rare cases that justice is done to the
memory of the horses on whom the character and
ascendency of the British thoroughbred mainly
rest.
It is for this reason that I have undertaken to
write an account of Galicia, her Forbears and her
Offspring ; for she herself sprang from the most
aristocratic of parents, and her children include,
besides a Derby winner, one who, notwithstanding
that he missed that unique distinction, was beyond
doubt the best horse in the Derby of his year;
for I am of course speaking of Bayardo, who
subsequently showed with the most unmistak-
able distinctness what ought to have happened
at Epsom, where the result of the classic was
affected by an accident, to be described in its
proper place.
Before dealing with Galicia herself something
must be said about her parents. In the year
1897 Mr. A. W. Cox, known in racing history as
'' Mr. Fairie," owned a mare named Isoletta, a
daughter of Isonomy, and sent her to Galopin,
then standing at the Blankney Stud Farm, and
rated as the leading sire of his period. Nine of
AND HER OFFSPRING
his yearlings had been sold the previous year for
an average of 1154 guineas. It is not certain
that there was ever a much better horse —
possibly in this connection the "much" should
be omitted — than the son of Vedette and
Flying Duchess ; and in saying this I am quot-
ing the opinion of one who knew the horse well,
and certainly was not in the least disposed to
underrate the merit of Galopin's most distin-
guished son, St. Simon aforesaid. It happened
that for some years it was my custom during
many mornings in every year to ride out and
watch the work done by the late John Dawson's
string, and it was from him that I gathered what
can hardly be a very wrong estimate of Galopin.
A famous horse in training at that period was
Petrarch, Galopin's senior by a year. Petrarch,
a son of Lord Clifden, won the Middle Park
Plate, amongst other races, as a two-year-old ; as
a three-year-old he carried off the Two Thousand
Guineas and the Leger ; as a four-year-old he
took the Ascot Cup. There can be little doubt,
none indeed, about his merit, and John Dawson
used to tell me that Galopin was always a con-
siderable number of pounds and lengths in front
of him. As just remarked, very few horses are
found in Turf history who have not failed once
or twice, and it is to a great extent because St.
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Simon and Ormonde were never beaten that they
are so highly esteemed. There may be perfectly
legitimate excuse for a defeat, possibly for a
couple of failures, but these things are not re-
garded : what men remember is that a hiatus
has occurred in the series of winning brackets.
Galopin carried well-nigh all before him, but he
was not unbeaten. He did not actually win, that
is to say come in first for, the Hyde Park Plate
at Epsom (1874), which nevertheless stands to
his credit. What happened is described in the
Racing Calendar for that year. There was an
objection, and the report of the race reads :
''We are of opinion that Constable on Cach-
mere cannoned unintentionally against Morris
riding Galopin, which prevented the latter from
winning. Galopin is therefore the winner of the
Hyde Park Plate, and Cachmere is not entitled
to a place.
" C. Alexander.
" W. S. Stirling Crawfurd (for Mr. Chaplin).
"H.J. Rous."
The son of Vedette then went on to Ascot,
where he started twice, for the Fern Hill
Stakes and for the New Stakes, favourite on
both occasions at 6 to 4, and he won without
difficulty. In the Middle Park Plate his only
defeat occurred. A field of twenty-four went to
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AND HER OFFSPRING
the post, the largest with one e*xception which
has ever assembled : there were thirty starters
when Petrarch won next year. Galopin was
backed at 6 to i, the favourite being- a colt
called Holy Friar, the property of the Lincoln-
shire clergyman who raced under the adopted
name of '^Mr. Launde," and who is chiefly
known in the annals of the Turf as the owner of
Apology, the mare who won the One Thousand
Guineas, the Oaks, the Leger, and as a five-
year-old the Ascot Cup. Holy Friar, 2 to i,
finished unplaced, there being a great fight
between Mr. R. R. Christopher's Plebeian, Lord
Dupplin's Per Se, and Galopin, heads only
dividing them, and an objection for bumping
followed, Tom Cannon on Per Se declaring that
he had been prevented from winning by Mordan
on Plebeian, whilst Morris appeared to think
that with a fair field and no favour Galopin
would just have got home. The objection, how-
ever, was overruled. This was Galopin's one
lapse. Afterwards he was only out twice as a
two-year-old and neither race meant anything.
He only found one opponent in a sweepstakes at
Newmarket, an indifferent colt called Tresorier,
whom he beat at his leisure with odds of 100 to
7 on him, and he then walked over for a small
stake at the Second October.
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As a three-year-old Galopin led off with a
match against Mr. Henry Chaplin's Stray Shot,
destined to have her name writ large in Turf
history as the dam of the Two Thousand and
Derby winner Shotover. Galopin was set to
give Stray Shot lo lb. over the Rowley Mile ;
odds of 1 1 to 8 were laid on him, and he won in
a canter by eight lengths. The Derby followed,
and of this I give a record :
Epsom, 1875.
The Ninety-sixth Renewal of the Derby Stakes of 50 sovs.
each, h. ft. for three-year-olds, colts 8 st. 10 lb., and
fillies 8 St. 5 lb. ; the second received 300 sovs. and
the third 150 sovs. out of the stakes. About a mile
and a half, starting at the New High Level Starting
Post. (198 subs. — £4g$o.)
Prince Batthyany's b. c. Galopin, by
Vedette ....
Lord Aylesford's b. c. Claremont .
Lord Falmouth's b. c. Repentance, by
Macaroni ....
Lord Falmouth's b. c. Garterley Bell
Mr. Vyner's b. c. Camballo .
Lord Aylesford's b. c. Telescope .
Prince SoltykoflF's br. c. Balfe
Mr. W. S. Cartwright's b. c. The Bay of
Naples . . . .
Lord Fitzwilliam's br. c. Breechloader
Mr. H. Savile's b. c. Earl of Dartrey
Mr. John Watson's b. c. Earlston .
Mr. F. E. Brace's br. c. Fareham .
6
. Morris
I
Maidment
2
y
F. Archer
3
. H. Jeffery
0
J. Osborne
0
Glover
0
T. Cannon
0
f
Custance
0
. F. Webb
0
. W. Piatt
0
Constable
0
T. Osborne
0
AND HER OFFSPRING
Count F. de Lagrange's b. c. Gilbert
Count F. de Lagrange's ch, c. Punch
Mr. C. Bush's ch. c. Lord Berners
Mr. Jos. Dawson's br. c. Seymour .
Lord Ailesbury's ch. c. Temple Bar
Mr. F. Swindell's ch. c. Woodlands
Fordham o
Carver o
Parry o
C. Wood o
T. Chaloner o
J. Goater o
Betting. — 2 to i against Galopin, lOO to 12 Balfe, 9
to I Camballo, 100 to 8 Repentance colt, 100 to 7 each
Claremont and Bay of Naples, 20 to i Woodlands, 22 to
I Temple Bar, 25 to i each Seymour, Breechloader, and
Earl of Dartrey, 30 to i Telescope, 100 to 3 Fareham,
1000 to I 5 each Lord Berners and Gilbert, and 100 to i
each Garterley Bell and Punch. Won by a length ; six
lengths between second and third.
Why Galopin's Ascot exertions were con-
fined to the Fern Hill Stakes I am not aware. It
seems not a little odd that a Derby winner should
have been brought out for a five-furlong race,
though the fact is interesting as proof of his re-
markable speed. Here he was backed at 2 to i
on and won by four lengths. One of the speedi-
est horses then in training was Lowlander, and
what was thought of him is proved by the readi-
ness of his owner to make a match with Galopin
over the Rowley Mile, ^1000, ;^200 forfeit. It is
remarkable, indeed, that Lowlander, then a five-
year-old, however, should have attempted to give
the Derby winner 12 lb. That was at the time
4 lb. more than weight for age — the scale has
been since slightly revised, and at the present
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
time over a mile in October, five-year-old, six-
year-old and aged horses give three-year-olds 7
lb. Galopin, however, won his match, and was
only seen once afterwards, when he took the
Newmarket Derby, being subsequently sent to
stand at Mr. Barrow's establishment at New-
market at a fee of 100 guineas.
This was the sire of Galicia, and more than
passing reference should be made to her maternal
grandsire, Isonomy. It is tempting to go back
a generation and talk of the sire of Isonomy,
Sterling, who must have been a remarkable stayer
and weight carrier, though he did not win the
races on which reputations are generally founded.
This son of Oxford, dam by Flatcatcher,
comes so closely into the record that he must not
be hastily passed over. He was at any rate
a remarkable horse. His start was humble
enough ; he came out for the Castle Park
Stakes at Warwick, 5 sovs. each, 50 added —
in his day it will be perceived the minimum
had not been raised to ^100. He started at
evens and was beaten two lengths by a filly
called Miss Lizzie, who never seems to have
done anything. Sterling made some mark later
in the season, however, for he won the Hopeful
and the Rutland Stakes at the Newmarket First
October Meeting.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
As a three-year-old the colt flew at high game,
making his first appearance in the Two Thousand
Guineas, in which Bothwell beat him a length.
A well-known animal at this time was King of
the Forest, whose form with Sterling must have
perplexed those who endeavoured to derive guid-
ance from it. In the Two Thousand Guineas
King of the Forest finished third, three lengths
behind Sterling. In the Prince of Wales's Stakes
at Ascot Sterling's ability to stay seemed likely
to give him a stronger advantage over the colt he
had beaten at Newmarket, especially as King of
the Forest carried 9 st. i lb.. Sterling 8 st. 13 lb.
The former, however, won the race, Sterling not
in the first three, and as a matter of course when
they met at evens in a Biennial two days later
odds were laid on King of the Forest. This time
Sterling won by three lengths ! He had a busy
three-year-old season. At the Newmarket July
he won the Summer Stakes, carrying 8 st. 12 lb.,
from Azalea, 6 st. 4 lb., and Piquillo, 6 st. 2 lb.
This was good, and his performance in the
Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood far from bad,
as he failed by only a length to give the winner
33 lb. In the Great Eastern Railway Handicap
he was burdened with 9 st. 6 lb. This race, by
the way, led to trouble, some of the jockeys
being reported by the starter. Archer was sus-
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
pended "from September 28th to October 12th,
both days inclusive," the sentence ran, Wheeler
having to stop riding on the same date, his
sentence being extended to the 19th. The extra
week seems to show nice discrimination on the
part of the Stewards. In the Cambridgeshire,
one of the most sensational races for that handi-
cap ever known, Sterling had 8 st. 11 lb. and
ran a dead heat for second place with Allbrook,
5 years, 6 st. 9 lb., Sabinus, 4 years, 8 st. 7 lb.,
winning by a head. Henry was favourite for this
Cambridgeshire, and is returned at the unusual
odds of 17 to 4 — one would have thought that 4
to I was near enough ; and two Derby winners
ran — Favonius, then, of course, a three-year-old,
in at the same weight as Sterling, backed at 1 1
to 2, and Kingcraft, the winner of the previous
year, 8 st. 4 lb., an outsider at 40 to i. Sterling,
it will be seen, had lost the Two Thousand by a
length, and in the autumn at Newmarket finished
several, if not many, lengths before the Derby
winner of the year. Sterling's last appearance of
the season was in the Free Handicap for Three-
Year-Olds, which he won carrying 8 st. 6 lb.
As a four-year-old he did little. The Craven
Stakes was at this period, 1871, an optional
Selling Race, worth ;^i75, and this represented
the whole of the colt's winnings for the season.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
He ran for the Gold Vase at Ascot, favourite at
7 to 4, and was beaten half a length by Albert
Victor at lo to i, his last effort being in the
All-aged Stakes, which on that occasion was
certainly remarkable. The distance, it is perhaps
needless to observe, is something" over five fur-
longs, and the runners were, besides Sterling —
who as just remarked had been out for the two-
mile Gold Vase on the Tuesday of the Meeting,
and was indeed an unquestionable stayer — Prince
Charlie, who had run second for the Leger, and
Wenlock, who had carried off the Doncaster
classic. I do not remember any occasion on
which three horses with such records have con-
tested a sprint race.
As for the Cambridgeshire, the race is de-
scribed by Sterling's jockey in the volume of his
Riding Recollections and Turf Stories. Custance
writes : ''It was an unlucky day for me when I
rode Sterling in the Cambridgeshire. It rained in
torrents and was dreadfully cold ; I had been
wasting for other races, and we were about three-
quarters of an hour at the post. There were
thirty-seven runners, and Sterling, who had be-
haved himself pretty well the first ten minutes,
became almost unmanageable afterwards. He
reared, kicked, and did everything he should not
have done, as his temper was upset. At last the
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
flag" fell to a straggling start, and before we had
gone two hundred yards I was in the first three
with 9 St. 7 lb. When we had gone a quarter of a
mile I was second, with my reins like soft soap.
I ought really to have been about nineteenth or
twentieth, with top weight on, but it could not
be helped, as I was perfectly helpless ; my hands
were numbed, and the sweat from the horse's neck
made the reins quite past holding — in fact I was
under every possible disadvantage, though I
finished third."
Elsewhere in the book Custance writes : "It
is quite impossible for me to mention all the fine
races I have seen Fordham ride. With one
especially I was very much impressed, and so
were many others who will corroborate me. This
was when he won the Cambridgeshire of 1871 on
Sabinus. This race especially was most beauti-
fully timed and resolutely finished." It thus
appears that Sterling must have been unlucky
not to win. Fine weather, avoidance of long
delay at the start, and an ordinary jockey instead
of the redoubtable Fordham on Sabinus, might
well have altered the result.
An idea seems to exist — I have read it more
than once, for when a blunder appears in print
it is frequently reproduced — that Isonomy never
ran as a two-year-old. As a matter of fact he
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AND HER OFFSPRING
did so thrice, making his first appearance in 1877
in the Brighton Club Two- Year-Old Stakes.
Something was thought of him, for he was
backed at 9 to 4, the race going to an even-
money favourite, Mr. Ellerlie's Ersila, by Rosi-
crucian, one of three colts — the other two being
Blue Gown and Green Sleeves — between whom
Sir Joseph Hawley seems to have been unable to
make up his mind before the Derby of 1868. In
this Brighton race Isonomy was a bad third.
He came out again for the Second Nursery at
Newmarket First October Meeting, and, an
8 to I chance, won by half a length from the
then Lord Lonsdale's Telegram, backed at half
the price. His third outing was in a Nursery
at the Houghton Meeting. Here he was not
mentioned in the betting, but was only beaten a
head by Mr. C. Best's Beadman in receipt of
II lb. Of course there was nothing in all this to
suggest that Isonomy was more than a moderate
animal, very moderate perhaps ; but he made
exceptional improvement, and next year it was
decided by his owner, Mr. F. Gretton, to keep
him for the Cambridgeshire, for which he was
specially trained. In the circumstances, having
done so little the previous season, it cannot be
said that he was leniently treated with 7 st. i lb.,
and as will be seen from the record he started
GALICIA : HER FORBEARS
Mr.
Morgan
Fordham
Hopper
at the comfortable odds of 40 to i. Details
follow :
Newmarket, 1878.
The Cambridgeshire Stakes (handicap) of 25 sovs. each,
10 ft. and 5 only if declared by noon on September
loth, with 300 added ; the second received 100 sovs.
out of the stakes, and the third saved his stake ;
winners extra ; entrance 3 sovs. Cambridgeshire
Course. (171 subs., 48 of whom paid 5 sovs. each —
;^2i87.)
F. Gretton's Isonomy, by Sterling,
3 yrs., 7 St. I lb. .
Lord Rosebery's Touchet, 4 yrs., 7 st.
7 lb
Mr, R. Peck's La Merveille, 3 yrs.,
6 St. 3 lb.
Lord Ellesmere's Hampton, 6 yrs., 9 st,
3 lb
Mr. Pulteney's Placida, 4 yrs., 8 st. 9 lb.
Mr. C. Alexander's Thunderstone, 4 yrs.,
8 st, 3 lb
Mr. T. Jenning's Ecossais, aged, 8 st.
3 lb. (inc. 5 lb. extra)
Duke of Hamilton's Midlothian, 4 yrs.,
8 St. I lb.
Lord Falmouth's Lady Golightly, 4 yrs,,
8 st
Duke of St. Alban's Lord Clive, 3 yrs,,
7 St. II lb, (car. 7 st. 13 lb.)
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Jester, 5 yrs., 7 st.
9 lb, (inc, 14 lb. extra)
Mr. J. Prat's Faisan, 3 yrs., 7 st. 7 lb.
Count F. de Lagrange's Clementine,
3 yrs., 7 St. 6 lb, .
14
F, Archer
4
H. Jeffery
0
J, Morris
0
J. Goater
0
Huxtable
0
Constable
0
Snowden
0
A. Wood
0
Fagan
0
R. Morris
0
AND HER OFFSPRING
Lord Bradford's Manoeuvre, 4 yrs., 7 st.
5 lb H. Wyatt o
Count F. de Lagrange's Lina, 5 yrs.,
7 St. 5 lb. (inc. 10 lb. extra, car.
7 St. 6 lb.) .... W. Johnson o
Baron A. de Rothschild's Brie, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 4 lb. . . . . C. Wood o
Mr. F. Gretton's Harbinger, 4 yrs., 7 st.
4 lb C. Willis o
Mr. M. H. Sanford's Start, 4 yrs., 7 st.
3 lb. . . . . . H. Covey o
M. Delatre's Clocher, 3 yrs., 7 st. 3 lb. Spreoty o
Mr. J. H. Houldsworth's Attalus, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 3 lb. . . . . Hopkins o
Capt. Machell's Master Kildare, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 3 lb. . . . . J. Watts o
Mr. A. Baltazzi'sTallos, 4 yrs., 7 st. 2 lb. J. M'Donald o
Duke of Hamilton's Greenback, 3 yrs.,
7 St. I lb. . . . . Lemaire o
Count de Juigne's Mantille, 3 yrs., 7 st.
I lb. . . . . . Fern o
Prince Batthyany's Sidonia, 4 yrs., 7 st. Luke o
Mr. E. Etches's Lancaster, 4 yrs., 7 st. W. M'Donald o
Capt. Machell's Sign Manual, 4 yrs.,
6 St. I 2 lb.
Mr. C. Perkins's Roehampton, 5 yrs.,
6 St. I 2 lb.
Lord Anglesey's Grey Friar, 4 yrs.,
6 St. I 2 lb.
Mr. M. L. Lasareff's Hermes, 3 yrs.,
6 st, 10 lb.
Mr. W. Goater's Pero, 3 yrs., 6 st. 10 lb.
(car. 6 St. 11 lb.)
Mr. J. Johnson's Shillelagh, 4 yrs., 6 st.
9 lb
15
Greaves
0
Weedon
0
Heather
0
Baines
0
Andrews
0
Mallows
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
Lord Alington's Thistle, 3 yrs., 6 st. 9 lb. Jones o
Mr, T. L. Reed's Macbeth, 3 yrs., 6 st.
5 lb A. Hall o
Mr. J. N. Barlow's Knighthood, 3 yrs.,
6 St. 3 lb. . . . . Kendall o
Mr. G, Lambert's Edith Plantagenet, 3
yrs., 6 St. . . . . . Collins o
Mr. Whittaker's Miss Pool, 3 yrs., 5 st.
13 lb Bell o
Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Broad Corrie, 3
yrs., 5 St. 12 lb. (car. 5 st. 13 lb.) Gallon o
Betting. — lOO to i 5 each against Macbeth and Green-
back, 8 to I Tallos, 10 to I Touchet, 100 to 8 Placida,
100 to 7 Start, 100 to 6 each Lord Clive and Master
Kildare, 20 to i Hampton, 25 to i each Thunderstone,
La Merveille, Sidonia, and Shillelagh, 33 to i each Ecos-
sais and Brie, 40 to i each Roehampton, Clocher, and
Isonomy, 50 to I each Mantille, Jester, Sign Manual,
Manoeuvre, and Lancaster, 100 to i each Lady Golightly,
Clementine, Faisan, Lina, Attains, Broad Corrie, Miss Pool,
Edith Plantagenet, and Grey Friar. Won by two lengths,
half a length between second and third, and a head between
third and fourth.
After this his career was one of almost un-
interrupted success. As a four-year-old he ran for
the Ascot Gold Vase, one of his two opponents
being Lord Falmouth's Silvio — who had won the
Derby of 1877 — and on whom 9 to 4 was laid,
Archer riding ; but Tom Cannon on Isonomy, 11
to 4, beat him half a length. Two days afterwards
he was saddled for the Ascot Cup. There were
six starters, and, favourite at 2 to i, he took the
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AND HER OFFSPRING
trophy, following on with the Goodwood Cup,
and the subsequent week the Brighton Cup,
which was then a two-mile race. In the Ebor
Handicap he had 9 st. 8 lb., which did not deter
backers from laying 11 to 8 on him. He won
this, and going on to Doncaster added the Cup
there to his spoils, 100 to 15 on, though this
time there was nothing to spare, as he only got
home by a head from Lord Falmouth's Jannette,
who had carried off the Leger of the previous
year. Isonomy had 9 st. 10 lb. in the Cesare-
witch, a burden which has never been borne
successfully — the 9 st. 5 lb. of Willonyx is the
record. Isonomy was set to give no less a
weight than t,i^ lb. to the good, honest, staying
Chippendale, and it detracts little from his
character that he could not do so.
As a five-year-old Isonomy was only out
twice, on the first occasion in the Manchester
Cup, then run over a mile and five furlongs — the
distance is now a mile and a half. There were
twenty-one starters. Isonomy carried 9 st. 12 lb.,
and as his merit was not even yet fully recognised
16 to I was laid against him, joint favourites
being The Abbot and Blue Blood, 6 to i.
Isonomy won by a neck from The Abbot, giving
him 3 St. 3 lb. ; the second, as a three-year-
old in May, had the great advantage of 20 lb. ;
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Isonomy, therefore, comes out nearly 2 st. the
better. His other race was the Gold Cup, in
which he was opposed by Chippendale and the
French colt Zut. Seeing what had happened
in the Cesarewitch it is not in the least strange
that 9 to 4 should have been laid on Isonomy,
though it does seem curious that backers should
have been found ready to take 95 to 40 about Chip-
pendale, meeting his former conqueror with no
advantage, there being, it is probably needless
to add, no penalties or allowances in this race.
Few horses have had a more brilliant career
at the stud, Isonomy's offspring including Com-
mon, Isinglass, and a host of notable winners,
amongst whom, however, his daughter Isoletta is
not included. Like so many other mares famous
for what they have produced she was no good
as a racer, and indeed her daughter Galicia did
little, as to which it can only be said that, as
usual with her owner's animals, an ambitious
programme was mapped out for her.
Galicia first ran for the Kempton Park Two-
Year-Old Plate on the 2nd of June 1900.
Kempton Park, 1900.
The Kempton Park Two-Year-Old Plate of 800 sovs.
for the owner and 100 sovs. for the nominator of
the winner, and 50 sovs, each for the owner and
nominator of the second ; entrance 1 5 sovs., or 3
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sovs. if declared ; five furlongs, on the Straight
Course. (99 subs., 48 of whom paid 3 sovs. each
— ;^885.)
Mr. R. S. Sievier's Toddington, by
Melton, 9 St. 2 lb.
Mr. A. Cohen's Royal River, 8 st. 9 lb.
Mr. Fairie's Galicia, 8 st. 9 lb.
M. Ephrussi's Mirande, 9 st. 2 lb. .
Mr. J. Musker's Britannia, 9 st. 2 lb.
Lord W. Beresford's Petronius, 8 st
I 2 lb
Lord W. Beresford's Volodyovski, 8 st
I 2 lb
Mr. E. Hobson's Lambourn Belle, 8 st
9 lb
Mr. P. Lorillard's Revera, 8 st. 9 lb
Duke of Portland's St. Aldegonde, 8 st
9 lb
Mr. L. Pilkington's Elleray, 8 st. 6 lb
Betting. — 11 to 10 against Toddington, 5 to i St.
Aldegonde, 1 1 to 2 Britannia, 8 to i Mirande, and 100
to 8 each Volodyovski and Galicia. Won by a neck, four
lengths between second and third.
It will be seen that at any rate she beat the
future winner of the Derby, and her next attempt
at Ascot was a successful one.
S. Loates
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2
K. Cannon
3
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0
Sloan
0
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0
. T. Weldon
0
F. Rickaby
0
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0
M. Cannon
0
Allsopp
0
Ascot, 1900.
The first year of the forty-third Ascot Biennial Stakes
of 10 sovs. each, with 500 added, for two-year-olds ;
second received 10 per cent, of the stakes. T.Y.C.
(88 subs. — .^1232.)
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Mr. Fairie's Galicia, by Galopin, 8st.
lO lb
Sir R. Waldie Griffith's br. f. by St.
Simon — Sweet Duchess, 8st. lolb.
Mr. G. F. Fawcett's Tin Soldier, 8 st.
lolb
H.R.H. Prince of Wales' Lord Quex,
9 St.
Lord W. Beresford's Nahlband, 9 st. .
Sir E. Cassel's Sang Bleu, 9 st. .
Mr. Arthur James' Fortunatus, 9 st.
Sir J. Kelk's O'Donoghue, 9 st.
Lord Rosebery's Menander, 9 st.
Lord Crewe's Saltatrix, 8 st. 10 lb.
Lord Ellesmere's Sabrinetta, 9 st. i lb.
Sir S. Scott's br. g. by Kilwarlin — Jewel
Song, 8 St. 10 lb.
K. Cannon
J. H. Martin 2
F. Rickaby 3
M. Cannon
0
T. Weldon
0
L. ReifF
0
0. Madden
0
Allsopp
0
C. Wood
0
T. Loates
0
S. Loates
0
Fagan
Betting. — -2 to i against Sabrinetta, 7 to 2 the Sweet
Duchess filly, 5 to i each Sang Bleu and Tin Soldier, and
10 to I each Lord Quex and Galicia. Won by half a
length, a length and a half between second and third.
But this was her only victory. She ran for
the Exeter Stakes at the Newmarket First July,
when a serious accident befell her.
Newmarket, 1900.
The Exeter Stakes of ;^ 1046 for two-year-olds. Exeter
Stakes Course, six furlongs.
Sir Ernest Cassel's Sang Bleu, 8 st.
12 lb L. Reiff" i
Lord Ellesmere's Sabrinetta, 8 st.
1 3 lb. . . . . . S. Loates 2
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Mr. J. S. Curtis's Joe's Luck, 8 st
9 lb
Sir Samuel Scott's g. by Kilwarlin —
Jewel Song, 8 st. 9 lb.
Mr. J. Musker's The General, 8 st
12 lb
Mr. Fairie's Galicia, 9 st. 3 lb. ,
Mr. P. Lorillard's Tantalus, 8 st
12 lb
Mr. J. P. Larnack's c. by Chillington —
Manoeuvre, 8 st. 12 lb.
Mr. Whitney's Attache, 8 st. i 2 lb.
Sir R. Waldie Griffith's Glim, 8 st. 9 lb
E.
Jones
3
K.
Cannon
4
J.
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Cannon
5
6
B. Rigby
O. Madden
M'Allister
J. H. Martin
Betting. — 11 to 10 The General, 5 to i Sabrinetta
and Galicia, 8 to i Joe's Luck, 10 to i Sang Bleu,
100 to 7 others. Won by length and a half; length
second and third.
According to the evidence of her jockey —
and Mornington Cannon was one upon whose
statements implicit dependence could be placed —
Galicia was winning in a canter when she sud-
denly faltered, and it was found that she had
split her pastern. She was never anything like
the same mare afterwards.
She came out as a three-year-old for the One
Thousand Guineas, and, quoted at 100 to 8, ran
nowhere behind the favourite Sir James Miller's
Aida, 13 to 8. Then followed the Oaks, taken
by the American mare Cap and Bells II, who
had never run in England before and who was
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never seen again. Galicia was seventh for the
Coronation Stakes at Ascot. For a Triennial
Produce Stakes at the Newmarket First October
Meeting she was fourth, in front, however, of the
favourite, Veles.
Newmarket, 1901.
The second year of the fifty-third Triennial Produce
Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h. ft. for acceptors, with
400 sovs, added for the owner and 100 sovs. for
the nominator of the winner ; for three-year-olds ;
second received 10 per cent, and third 5 per cent,
of the whole stake ; entrance 3 sovs. each year, the
only forfeit if declared by October 10, 1899. A.F.
(79 subs., 24 of whom paid entrance only —
£67^, IDS.)
Mr. J. H. Houldsworth's Energetic, by
Enthusiast, 8 st. 10 lb.
Lord Harewood's O'Donoghue, 9 st. .
Sir J. Blundell Maple's The Bishop,
9 St. 5 lb
Mr. Fairie's Galicia, 8 st. 11 lb.
Sir R. Waldie Griffith's Veles, 9 st.
51b
Major E. W. Baird's St. Monans, 9 st.
Mr. Arthur James' Cynical, 9 st.
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Veles, 7 to 2 O'Donoghue, 7 to
I Energetic, 100 to 12 each The Bishop, St. Monans, and
Cynical, and 100 to 8 Galicia. Won by three-quarters of
a length, the same between second and third.
Her last appearance was in the Derby Cup.
Here she was out by herself. Her jockey re-
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garded the race as won, when she broke down
badly, stopped "as if she had been shot," to
quote the famiHar phrase, and could never run
again.
Galicia was first of all sent to Eager, with a
disappointing result. She had no foal ; but with
regard to this horse something more than casual
passing reference seems desirable, for Eager,
prior to the appearance of the great horses with
whom Mr. Fairie's name will always be asso-
ciated in Turf history, was at least an animal of
special note. Eager was a son of Enthusiast,
whose victory in the Two Thousand Guineas of
1889 remains one of the most extraordinary things
on record. Enthusiast was the property of Mr.
Douglas Baird, one of the four owners whose
horses were trained at this period by James Ryan
at Green Lodge, which overlooks the Severals at
Newmarket. There were, besides Mr. Fairie,
Mr. Douglas Baird and Mr. J. H. Houldsworth,
both members of the Jockey Club, and Mr.
John Wallace. It may certainly be said that
the trainer was fortunate in his patrons, as like-
wise that they were most efficiently served.
Enthusiast beat the Duke of Portland's famous
Donovan, Mr. Douglas Baird's colt being one of
the three who got their heads in front of this well-
nigh invincible horse during his career. There
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can be no doubt that the victory was purely attri-
butable to jockeyship, indeed Tom Cannon — who
wore Mr. Douglas Baird's crimson, silver-braided
jacket on this occasion, as on many others — gave
me his explanation soon after the race. The
chief danger to Donovan, so far as any might
be supposed to exist, was ''Mr. Abington's "
Pioneer, and Tom Cannon beat him and Donovan
by what at present seems to be considered the
old-fashioned expedient of waiting, a method
which nevertheless appears to be returning
somewhat to vogue. "They had two little races
all to themselves a good long way from the
post," was Tom Cannon's description, "and
when they started on a third I thought I would
join in ! " He did this with such admirable
effect that he beat Donovan a head, a result
which past and future form, direct and collateral,
proved to be ridiculously wrong. Enthusiast
met Donovan more than once afterwards but
never got near him.
Mr. Fairie, however, thought sufficiently well
of Enthusiast to send his mare Greeba to him ;
and Eager, their son, made his first appearance
on any course at Lincoln for the Brocklesby
Stakes of 1896, ridden by F. Pratt, now known
as a successful trainer, and a nephew of the
famous Fred Archer. Eager, almost favourite,
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AND HER OFFSPRING
backed at 9 to 2, the actual favourite being Mr.
Leopold de Rothschild's Jest, finished third to
this filly, but soon started on a notably victorious
career, deservedly earning" the character of being
one of the speediest horses of his generation.
He won the Royal Two-Year-Old Plate at Kemp-
ton at his second attempt, a race worth ^2780,
from Lord Rosebery's well-known mare Che-
landry, who was to become dam of good horses,
including Neil Gow, an animal destined to be
closely associated with the fortunes of one of
Galicia's two best sons. This opportunity may
be taken of correcting an impression which largely
prevails to the effect that Eager was merely a
six-furlong horse. His great speed made him
extraordinarily formidable over this distance, but
some of his most notable achievements were in
mile races, and sometimes, moreover, over miles
on severe courses, the Rowley and the Bunbury
amongst others. The greater part of the money
he won was in these contests.
As a three-year-old he ran in Galtee More's
Derby, which, however, the odds of 50 to i against
him suggest that he was not expected to win.
Galtee More started at 4 to i on. At Ascot, Eager
won the Rous Memorial over the Hunt Cup
course, the Midsummer Plate at Newmarket
up the steep Bunbury Hill, the Brighton and
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
Derby Cups. A curious circumstance about
this horse was that he constantly encountered
Goletta and she always beat him, though Mr.
Leopold de Rothschild has admitted to me that
he does not believe his mare was really the
better of the two. Their first encounter was
in the Chesterfield Stakes at the Newmarket
Second July, when Goletta — like Galicia a
daughter of Galopin — was regarded as a practical
certainty, and started at 7 to 2 on. Against
Eager 4 to i was laid, and he was beaten a short
head. The two then met in the Rous Memorial
at the Newmarket First October, and Eager
failed by a head for the second time. In the
Criterion the pair were again opponents ;
this time Goletta was second to King Edward's
Oakdene, who had, however, an advantage in
the weights. Eager fourth. As three-year-
olds Eager, having won the Rous Memorial
at Ascot and the Midsummer Plate aforesaid
incidentally, resumed his antagonism with Goletta
in the St. George Stakes at Liverpool. Here
5 to 2 was laid on him, notwithstanding that
the distance was a mile and three furlongs,
which may be accepted as having been beyond
his tether ; but Goletta was giving him a pound
instead of receiving a sex allowance. She beat
him by five lengths. Perhaps Eager was never
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AND HER OFFSPRING
better than as a four-year-old, when he won the
Portland Plate, the Duchess of York Stakes, and
other races, failing- only by a head in the Derby
Cup, carrying 9 st. 6 lb., and giving 39 lb. to the
winner, Waterhen, a useful filly of his own age.
During four seasons he carried Mr. Fairie's white,
orange sleeves and cap, but as a six-year-old
became the property of Mr. L. Neumann, for
whom he continued to win races. The horse had
very small feet and weak ankles. Mr. Fairie did
not care to use him as a sire, helping, however,
by sending- a few mares, to give him a chance ;
and he did much better at the stud than his
original owner anticipated.
Undeterred by the first failure, Mr. Fairie
sent Galicia again to Eager in 1903, and this
time she produced a colt who was called
Eastern, and so enters into my story. He
was a good-looking bay, who did not come
to hand till late in the season, indeed it was
not until September that Alec Taylor — for the
horses had left Ryan's stable at Newmarket and
gone to Manton — was able to bring him out
in the Breeders' Foal Plate at Kempton Park.
Major Eustace Loder's Galvani had acquired the
reputation of being in all probability the best of
his year, and odds of 1 1 to 4 were laid on him.
I have a vivid recollection of the race, as whilst
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it was being run I happened to stand by Lord
Rosebery, whose Bezonian, in receipt of lo lb.,
beat the favourite by a neck, though the owner
of the winner had told me he entertained no hope
of success. Lady de Bathe's Yentoi, who was
to win the Cesarewitch two years later, was the
only one quoted in the market with the excep-
tions of Galvani and of Bezonian (lo to i), Eastern
figuring among the "25 to i others"; but he
showed some speed, and little more than a fort-
night afterwards, at the Newmarket First October
Meeting — we are talking of 1906 — easily won a
Triennial Produce Stakes. He did not beat very
much ; the two animals who followed him home,
however, Lady de Bathe's Petchora and Sir R.
Waldie Griffith's The Ring, had both won races,
and it was demonstrated that Eastern was at any
rate useful. He ran in the Prendergast without
distinction, and only made one other appearance
as a two-year-old, when he was second for a
Nursery at Liverpool, in which, however, there
were only three starters, and the best that can be
made of it is that he was giving the winner 18 lb.
I have never agreed with an idea which is
held by some people that a horse is necessarily
unlucky when he runs second. In these cases a
stronger inference is that the winner would have
been unfortunate had he been beaten. Eastern
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AND HER OFFSPRING
as a three-year-old was second on no fewer than
six occasions, and he was thrice third, more-
over, actually winning- only one race in fourteen
attempts, and that by no more than a head. He
came out for the Column Produce Stakes, in
which the Duke of Devonshire's Acclaim had
half a length the better of him, and in the New-
market Stakes a month later either he did not
do quite so well or Acclaim did better, for here
the Duke's colt beat him a head and a length
and a half, Linacre separating them. A third
attempt, though not successful, was on the whole
to Eastern's credit. This was for the ^looo
Hurst Park Yearling Plate. Lord Rosebery's
Traquair, another son of Chelandry, by Ayrshire,
was favourite at 1 1 to lo, having been one of the
best two-year-olds of his season, though unfor-
tunately touched in the wind. Eastern beat him
a neck but was beaten in turn three lengths by
Portland Bay, the winner in receipt of lo lb.
For the Trial Stakes at Ascot Eastern met a
useful field. Dean Swift won from King Edward's
Slim Lad, Eastern third, giving His Majesty's
colt, one of the few sons of Laodamia who has
ever been any good, 7 lb. He had established
himself, indeed, as just a nice, useful colt, likely
to win in his turn when the luck was with him.
It was not expected that he would beat Lord
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Derby's Bridge of Canny for the First Foal
Stakes at the Newmarket Second July, Bridge of
Canny being something more than useful, and
winning by a length and a half, giving lo lb.
more than weight for age. The Atlantic Stakes
at the Liverpool Meeting must not be passed
over without reference, for the favourite here was
Orby, who had not been seen in England since
he won the Derby. Odds of 7 to 4 were laid on
him, and he finished last of the four starters.
Eastern, however, being no nearer than third.
He went to Goodwood and came near to victory
in the Chesterfield Cup, where he met really
good animals. Velocity, then a five-year-old,
was favourite, and obviously deserved the posi-
tion, as he won, though only by a neck from
Eastern, who beat Dean Swift by a length and
a half. Eastern and Dean Swift met on exactly
the same terms as in the Trial Stakes at Ascot.
There Dean Swift had beaten Mr. Fairie's colt
four lengths and a half, now, as just observed, it
was a length and a half the other way, so that,
as it is certain from subsequent performances
that Dean Swift was not deteriorating. Eastern
must have been coming on. His one victory
followed, at Hurst Park in the Lennox Plate in
August. Here the favourite was Baltinglass,
6 to 5 on. The son of Isinglass and Sibola, who
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AND HER OFFSPRING
was to run second for the Leger and start one of
the hottest favourites on record for the Cesare-
witch, at 9 to 4, was in receipt of 9 lb. from
Eastern, and Mr. Fairie's colt won by a head.
He wound up the season by missing the Free
Handicap by a similar margin, All Black giving
him I lb. and just beating him. This was East-
ern's last appearance in England. The stud-book
records that he was sent to Belgium, and what
became of him I do not know. He inherited his
sire's small feet and weak fetlocks, and his owner
had an idea that it often hurt him to stretch
himself out, especially when the ground was at
all hard. Galicia had, however, taken rank as
the dam of a winner.
In 1905 Galicia gave birth to a bay colt by
Isinglass v/ho was called Carpathian, and showed
sufficient promise to induce Mr. Fairie to put
him into the New Stakes at Ascot, the Chester-
field at Newmarket, the Richmond at Goodwood,
as also the Rous Memorial and the Molecomb,
the Champagne at Doncaster, the Hopeful at
Newmarket, the Middle Park and the Dew-
hurst, the two-year-old races, indeed, in which
reputation is to be chiefly won. But Carpathian
was never seen on a race-course. Meantime
Galicia had visited Bay Ronald, a sire who cer-
tainly would not have been everyone's choice.
GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
There is one detail which I must not omit.
At the time of writing the mare whose offspring
have won most money in stakes is understood to
be the Duke of Portland's Mowerina, the sire of
Donovan, Semolina, and other winners, pressed
by King Edward's Perdita II, dam of the three
brothers Florizel II, Persimmon and Diamond
Jubilee. Galicia is not far from the front, and
in all probability her total will be considerably
increased. It may be anticipated with no little
confidence that she will presently be found to
rank as the most remunerative mare who has
ever figured in the Stud Book.
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CHAPTER H
BAY RONALD
Bay Ronald was standing at Lordship Farm at
a fee of 75 guineas. He had not produced
anything of mark, and at this period the list of
horses at the stud included many who looked
tempting, though as regards most of them there
was the question of inbreeding to be considered
in dealing with a daughter of Galopin. Popular
sires in 1905, however, besides the sons of St.
Simon, included Ayrshire, by Hampton — Ata-
lanta ; Carbine, by Musket — Mersey ; Cyllene,
by Bonavista — Arcadia ; Gallinule, by Isonomy
— Moorhen; Ladas, by Hampton — Illuminata ;
Melton, by Master Kildare — Violet Melrose ;
Rightaway, by Wisdom — Vanish, all these at
fees varying from 100 to 250 guineas, and it may
be incidentally observed that Flying Fox, the
son of Orme and Vampire, was priced at 600
guineas. Mr. Fairie made choice of Bay Ronald,
how wisely the result was to show.
Horses are seldom judged without prejudice.
For one of various reasons their critics have a
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disposition to regard them either with favour or
disfavour, and a perfectly true account of almost
any horse can be so tinged as to make him
appear better or worse than he actually is. Thus
as regards Bay Ronald it might be observed that
during the four years he remained in training
he ran in twenty-six races and won only five of
them, the one by which he is best known having
been a handicap, the City and Suburban ; but
no one pretends that such a summary would do
the horse anything like justice. It is probable
that when Bayardo first began to show what he
was some doubts existed as to whether his career
would continue brilliantly, simply because Bay
Ronald was scarcely a sire from whom great
things might have been expected. This is
judging him superficially perhaps, by his not
very brilliant performances whilst in training ;
but when his descent was considered it became
evident that Bay Ronald might be capable of
anything if he came near to transmitting the ex-
cellence of those from whom he was descended.
Bay Ronald, the property of Mr. Leonard
Brassey, was a son of Hampton and Black
Duchess. Hampton himself was a remarkable
animal for reasons to which reference will pre-
sently be made. He in turn was the son of
Lord Clifden, probably one of the best horses
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AND HER OFFSPRING
in the annals of the Turf, winner of a highly
sensational Leger amongst other races. Lord
Clifden was by Newminster, another St. Leger
winner ; Newminster by the famous Touchstone,
yet another winner of the Doncaster classic ;
and on the dam's side Bay Ronald's descent is
scarcely less distinguished, his dam having been
Black Duchess, by Lord Falmouth's Galliard — a
son of Galopin — winner of the Two Thousand
Guineas of 1883, and of Black Corrie by Sterling.
I must by no means omit somewhat extended
comment on Bay Ronald's sire, Hampton. In
his early days it cannot be denied that he ap-
peared to be altogether unworthy of his ancestors.
He was somewhat small, though a decidedly
good-looking horse, but that he did not take
everyone's fancy is sufficiently proved by the
fact that after winning a little Selling Race as
a two-year-old no one would bid more than 150
guineas for him, at which modest price he was
allowed to change hands. This was in 1874, ^"^
it seemed indiscreetly ambitious to put him into
the Metropolitan at Epsom next season, a mere
plater, as it could not be incorrect to describe
him. Carrying 6 st. 3 lb. he won in the style
which his two-year-old efforts were very far from
suggesting. His improvement was, indeed, as-
tonishing, the fact being, however, that he was
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a natural stayer for whom no course appeared
to be too long, and he was also possessed of
sufficient speed to do what was necessary at
the finish. Even as a four-year-old his merit was
scarcely recognised, or so it would seem from the
circumstance of his having had no more than
7 St. lo lb. in the Goodwood Stakes. There was
certainly a good entry that year ; but nothing
had a chance with Hampton. I well recollect
the race, for a friend of mine, then Mr. Herbert
Gardner, created afterwards Lord Burghclere,
was also a great friend of the late Lord Ellesmere,
Hampton's owner, and induced me to back the
horse. Handicappers soon began to perceive
what he was. His weight in the Northumberland
Plate next year, 1877, was 8 st. 12 lb., and he
had no trouble in beating the fourteen opposed
to him.
In his first season there had been no sort of
ground to anticipate that Hampton would ever
be able to win ordinary handicaps, whereas he
proceeded to qualify as a Cup horse, and in 1877
added the Goodwood and Doncaster Cups to the
list of his successes. In 1878 he did better still,
taking the Epsom Gold Cup, a race which was
then run over two miles, from the French horse
Verneuil, who must have been one of the very
best ever sent across the Channel. Verneuil was
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AND HER OFFSPRING
a magnificent specimen of the thoroughbred, and
Hampton's fame naturally advanced after the
Ascot Meeting ; for here Verneuil won the
Gold Vase on the Tuesday, the Gold Cup two
days later, and was brought out again on the
Friday for the Alexandra Plate, which he also
secured. These triumphs of Hampton's were
all accomplished in Lord Ellesmere's colours,
and the once-despised plater became the sire of
three Derby winners — Merry Hampton 1887,
Ayrshire the following year, and Ladas 1894 —
and very nearly of a fourth who would have
been victorious in the colours of his owner
— Highland Chief. This colt was only beaten
a neck in 1883 by Sir Frederick Johnstone's St.
Blaise, and Webb, who rode Highland Chief,
pulled up under the confident impression that
he had actually won. When the trainer, Charles
Archer, drew Webb's attention to the number
of St. Blaise displayed above the judge's box,
the jockey was persuaded that it must certainly
have been hoisted by a mistake which would be
speedily rectified. The Two Thousand winner
Galliard, ridden by Fred Archer, was, it may be
remarked, third. Hampton was also a winner
over hurdles, a matter, however, little regarded
by devotees of the sport which is called legi-
timate. He was a good second for the Grand
GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
International Hurdle Race at Croydon to Chan-
dos, who possibly never had a superior in this
business, which is in a great measure, no doubt,
a question of knack. James Jewitt, who used to
ride Chandos, has told me that the horse took
his hurdles in his stride with a perfect ease which
hardly conveyed to his jockey the impression that
he was jumping" at all. Excellence was, however,
only to be expected from a son of Lord Clifden.
I have mentioned this horse's sire Newminster ;
his dam was The Slave, a daughter of Melbourne,
whose lop ears, and what was called the "Mel-
bourne blaze," have marked so many of his stock.
Of late years the thoroughbred horse has
enormously increased in value. In the sixties
5000 guineas was considered a huge sum to give
for any animal, though for Lord Clifden as a two-
year-old Lord St. Vincent is said to have paid
over 6000 guineas. Lord Clifden began his career
by winning the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom, as
several great horses have done, and after having
been practically left at the post for the Cham-
pagne at Doncaster he won that as easily as he
had taken the Epsom race. Another of his two-
year-old exploits was to beat Lord Falmouth's
good filly Queen Bertha, winner of the Oaks of
1863. There is little doubt that he was unfor-
tunate in losing the Derby. Some time before
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AND HER OFFSPRING
the race he sHpped up and injured himself, with
the result that his preparation was seriously in-
terrupted, a fact, I believe, not generally known.
What happened on training- grounds at that
period was not common property, as it usually
is to-day. There was in the stable an Irish
horse called Bellman who greatly resembled
Lord Clifden, and was mistaken for Lord St.
Vincent's colt, the consequence being that work
which Lord Clifden did not do, being at the
time in his stable incapacitated, was attri
buted to him. He was decidedly backward in
condition at Epsom, but nevertheless only failed
by a head to beat Macaroni. There were good
horses behind him — Rapid Rhone, The Ranger
who won the first Grand Prix, Saccharometer,
Blue Mantle, and Hospodar. Lord Clifden's
St. Leger was one of the most sensational on
record. He was ridden by John Osborne and
left at the post, to all appearances hopelessly out
of it. To have hurried him would doubtless
have been fatal, but his accomplished jockey
allowed him to make up his ground gradually,
so much so that at the Red House it is said he
was fully fifty lengths last, and odds of 50 to i
were shouted against him. By degrees he pulled
his way to the front, winning comfortably by half
a length from Queen Bertha, Borealis third, in
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front of The Ranger and Blue Mantle amongst
others. The grandsire of Bay Ronald was also
the sire of no fewer than four Leger winners —
Hawthornden, 1870; Wenlock, 1872; Petrarch,
1876 ; and Jannette, 1878.
Newminster must not be omitted from com-
ment. He too won the Leger, in 1851, and
besides Lord Clifden, sired classic winners in
Musjid, who carried off the Derby for Sir
Joseph Hawley in 1869, and Mr. Chaplin's
Hermit, victorious at Epsom in 1867. Hermit
became one of the most famous sires in
Turf history, his stock including the classic
winners St. Blaise, Shotover, Thebais, St.
Marguerite, and Lonely. Peter, Tristan, Queen
Adelaide and St. Louis were likewise by
him, as was Friar's Balsam, unquestionably
the best two-year-old of his season. Odds
of 3 to I were laid on Friar's Balsam for
the Two Thousand Guineas of 1888, but on
the way to the post an abscess which had
formed in his mouth, and in some mysterious
way escaped the observation of his trainer,
broke, and he was quite unable to do himself
anything distantly approaching to justice. In
the New Stakes at Ascot Friar's Balsam had
cantered away from the Duke of Portland's
Ayrshire, who won the Derby, having previously
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AND HER OFFSPRING
taken the Two Thousand which Friar's Balsam
missed. It will be seen how many of this family
were winners of the Leg"er. Touchstone was so in
1834, taking" also the Doncaster Cup next year
and the Ascot Cup, as also the Doncaster Cup
again in 1836, and his Ascot victory he repeated
in 1837. When it is considered what these
horses did, respect for their descendant Bay
Ronald cannot but increase.
Coming to Bay Ronald himself it has been
said that he merely won five races in four years ;
but in order to give a fair view of him it must be
pointed out that the tasks set him were frequently
severe. His first appearance was made in the
Stanley Stakes at the Epsom Summer Meeting
of 1895, when as he started at 10 to i it may be
assumed that not a great deal was expected of him.
He nevertheless finished third to the late Colonel
Harry M 'Calmont's Devil-M ay-Care. Another
colt belonging to Colonel M'Calmont — Cushen-
dall — beat him out of a place at his next attempt,
in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Ascot, and he
just missed a place for the Lavant Stakes
at Goodwood, behind the dead-heaters. Lord
Houghton's Flitters — the then Lord Hough-
ton, at present known as the Marquess of
Crewe — and the Duke of Westminster's Omla-
dina. It was hardly to be supposed that Bay
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Ronald could have a chance for the Middle Park
Plate, which went that year to Mr. Leopold de
Rothschild's St. Frusquin, who beat Omladina
by half a length, the favourite, H.R.H. the
Prince of Wales' Persimmon, five lengths away,
third ; and St. Frusquin found little difficulty in
giving Bay Ronald lo lb. in the Dewhurst Plate,
Mr. Leonard Brassey's colt finishing indeed last
of the five.
It will be seen that big things had been asked
of the colt, and so it continued next season. The
ground was very hard in the spring of 1896, and
for that reason Mr. Leopold de Rothschild did
not bring out St. Frusquin for the Newmarket
Stakes, he having already won the Column Pro-
duce Stakes and the Two Thousand. Galeazzo
did duty for him, and shared favouritism with the
Duke of Westminster's Labrador at 9 to 2, 5 to i
being laid against the Duke of Devonshire's
Balsamo, after whom in the market came Bay
Ronald, 100 to 15. There were fifteen starters,
and the fact of Bay Ronald being backed at this
comparatively short price is evidence that he had
wintered well. He ran, moreover, far from badly.
Galeazzo had a neck the better of Balsamo,
Bradwardine third, beaten three lengths, Bay
Ronald fourth, in front of Labrador. There was
some promise about this, but the colt continued
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AND HER OFFSPRING
to fly at the highest game, and next came out
for the Derby, finishing fifth to Persimmon, who,
as every one with any acquaintance with racing
affairs is aware, beat St. Frusquin by a neck.
Epsom, 1896.
The One Hundred and Seventeenth Renewal of the Derby
Stakes of 6000 sovs., by subscription of 50 sovs.
each, h. ft. of 5 sovs. if declared, with 165 sovs.
added ; for three-year-olds ; colts 9 st., and fillies
8 St. 9 lb. The nominator of the winner received
500 sovs., the owner of the second 300 sovs., and
the owner of the third 200 sovs. out of the stakes.
About one mile and a half. (276 subs., ^J of whom
paid 5 sovs. each — ^^^5450.)
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' b. c. Per-
simmon, by St. Simon
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's br. c. St
Frusquin ....
Mr. H. C. Beddington's br. c. Earwig
Mr. B. S. Straus* br. c. Teufel
Mr. L. Brassey's b. c. Bay Ronald .
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's b. c. Gulistan
Mr. L. Brassey's b. c. Tamarind
Mr. A. Calvert's br. c. Bradwardine
Mr. J. Wallace's b. c. Spook .
Mr. E. Cassel's b. c. Toussaint
Mr. H. M'Calmont's b. c. Knight of the
Thistle . . • . .
J. Watts
T. Loates
Allsopp
F. Pratt
Bradford
Calder
Grimshaw
Rickaby
Colling
Woodburn o
M. Cannon o
Mr. Rothschild declared to win with St. Frusquin.
Betting. — 13 to 8 on St. Frusquin, 5 to i against
Persimmon, 100 to 9 Teufel, 25 to i each Bay Ronald
and Knight of the Thistle, 33 to i each Gulistan and Ear-
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wig, 40 to I Bradwardine, 100 to i each Spook and
Toussaint, and 1000 to i Tamarind. Won by a neck;
four lengths between second and third.
There is a proverb about knowing a man by
the company he keeps, and to some extent horses
may be judged after the same fashion. Bay
Ronald at least kept excellent company, and if
he did not always shine in it, peculiar brilliance
is necessary in order to obtain distinction among
the highest class. It is not impossible that there
have been years when Bay Ronald might have
made at any rate what is called "a bold bid" for
the Derby if he had not actually won it. Sup-
posing he had been one year older it is far from
certain that Sir Visto would have beaten him,
and had he been two years younger, which would
have made him a three-year-old in 1898, he
might quite possibly have beaten Jeddah. That
at least is the estimate I form of him, though of
course one cannot speak with any approach to
confidence about the relative merit of horses
who never came into opposition.
After Epsom Bay Ronald went to Ascot, and
ran for the race which is called the Derby at that
Meeting. There were only four starters, two of
them on offer at odds of 20 to i, indeed the race
was evidently looked on as a good thing for the
Duke of Westminster's Conroy, a son of Bend Or
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AND HER OFFSPRING
and Grace Conroy, for odds of 9 to 4 were laid
on him — Bay Ronald, nevertheless, being- quoted
at 5 to 2. Conroy won, Bay Ronald beaten for
second place three parts of a length by Mr.
J. H. Houldsworth's Positano, and it may be
assumed that the jockeys rode out for places,
as in this race the second receives ^200, the
third ^100. This was not Bay Ronald at his
best, at the same time something must have been
thought of the performance, for on the Friday
we find him second favourite at 7 to 2 for the
Hardwicke Stakes. The absolute favourite was
another colt from Kingsclere, a stable companion
of Conroy, the Duke of Portland's Shaddock,
II to 8, and he won, Bay Ronald, though Shad-
dock was giving him 12 lb., finishing no nearer
than fifth.
That race, it must freely be confessed, shows
the horse in an unflattering light, but I have
an idea that he was not seen in his true
colours at this Ascot Meeting. At his next
attempt he was engaged on a task which he
could not be expected to fulfil. He was brought
out for the Jockey Club Stakes at the Newmarket
First October Meeting. At one time it had been
supposed that Persimmon and St. Frusquin,
unless the Leger had shown that one was un-
questionably better than the other — a point which
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the Derby and the Princess of Wales's Stakes had
left doubtful — would have met once more for this
rich prize, St. Frusquin, however, had finally
disappeared from active service on the race-course
after winning the Eclipse Stakes. There was an
idea that the late Colonel Harry M'Calmont's
Knight of the Thistle, who was receiving 17 lb.
from Persimmon, had some sort of chance, and
the Duke of Westminster's Regret was considered
to be not altogether hopeless, 100 to 12 being
his price. Persimmon, however, 11 to 8 on, won
by a couple of lengths from Sir Visto, Laveno
filling the third place four lengths away. Some
long prices were on offer, though there were only
ten runners. Laveno and Utica stood at 66 to i,
Bay Ronald and The Lombard at 100 to i, and
300 to I was to be had, at least according to the
return, against a filly called Bride of the Sea,
and also against Kirkconnel, notwithstanding
that he had won the Two Thousand Guineas
the previous year.
At length, however, Bay Ronald was to come
to the front. He ran for the Lowther Stakes at
the Second October Meeting with the following
result :
Newmarket, 1896.
The Lowther Stakes of 20 sovs. each for starters, with
5 GO sovs. added ; for three-year-olds and upwards ;
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AND HER OFFSPRING
second received 50 sovs. out of the stakes and third
saved his stake; entrance 10 sovs. A.F. (28
entries — i^500.)
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, by Hampton,
3 yrs., jst. 9 lb. . • . Finlay i
Lord Rosebery's Avilion, 3 yrs., 8st. 3 lb. S. Loates 2
Duke of Westminster's Rampion, 3 yrs.,
8 St. I lb. Calder 3
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Utica, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 2 lb. . . . • M. Cannon o
Mr. H. E. Beddington's Earwig, 3 yrs.,
8 St. I lb Allsopp o
Betting. — 13 to 8 against Earwig, 7 to 4 Rampion, 8 to i
Bay Ronald, lOO to 12 Utica, and 10 to i Avilion. Won
by three lengths ; four lengths between second and third.
Earwig had been third to Persimmon and St.
Frusquin at Epsom, beaten four lengths, as pre-
viously noted Bay Ronald was fifth, and here
Earwig was trying to give him 6 lb. If not a
great performance it was at any rate a creditable
one, and next time it may be said that he did
better.
Newmarket, 1896.
The Limekiln Stakes of 50 sovs. each for starters, with
1000 sovs. added ; for three-year-olds and upwards ;
second received 150 sovs. out of the stakes and
third saved his stake ; entrance, 1 5 sovs. R.M.
(39 entries — ^^1085.)
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, by Hamp-
ton, 3 yrs., 8 St. 7 lb. . , . Bradford i
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Lord Rosebery's Avilion, 3 yrs., 8 st.
3 lb. . . . . . . S. Loates 2
Duke of Devonshire's Balsamo, 3 yrs.,
8 St. 7 lb. . . . . . Madden 3
Mr. H. M'Calmont's Knight of the Thistle,
3 yrs., 7 St. 9 lb. . . . . Allsopp o
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Utica, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 2 lb. . . , . . T. Loates o
Mr. J. H. Houldsworth's Laveno, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 8 lb F. C. Pratt o
Duke of Westminster's Regret, 3 yrs.,
8 St. 12 lb. . . . . . M. Cannon o
Betting. — 5 to 4 against Regret, 4 to i Balsamo, 8 to
I Knight of the Thistle, 100 to 12 Avilion, 10 to i Bay
Ronald and Laveno, and 100 to 8 Utica. Won by a
length ; three lengths between second and third.
Regret was always a disappointing" animaL
That Bay Ronald had made a highly favourable
impression was proved by the fact of his starting
favourite for the Free Handicap for Three- Year-
Olds, a race which dropped out of the Calendar
about 191 2, though what may be called the com-
panion stake for two-year-olds still continues.
Newmarket, 1896.
A Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ;
for three-year-olds ; winners extra ; second received
200 sovs. out of the stakes, and third saved his
stake. A.F. (22 subs. — £^1050.)
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Gulistan, by
Brag, 9 St. . . . . . T. Loates i
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AND HER OFFSPRING
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales's Thais, 8 st.
lo lb. . . . . . M. Cannon 2
Prince Soltykoff's South Australian, 8 st. Toon 3
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, 8 st. 5 lb.
(inc. 5 lb. ex.) .... Bradford o
Lord Ellesmere's Miss Fraser, 8 st. 2 lb. Finlay o
Mr. J. Wallace's Spook, 8 st. . . . Allsopp o
Mr. Hamar Bass's ch. f. by Marden —
Abeyance, 7st. 8 lb. . . . Fearis o
Betting. — i i to 4 against Bay Ronald, 3 to i Spook,
g to 2 Thais, 1 1 to 2 Gulistan, 10 to i each Miss Fraser
and South Australian, and 100 to 6 the Abeyance filly.
Won by three-quarters of a length ; same between second
and third.
The two races which Bay Ronald won were
worth ^1585.
Throughout his career Bay Ronald was des-
tined to meet the Duke of Devonshire's Balsamo
on several occasions. Both had started for the
Middle Park Plate, the only occasion on which
the son of Friar's Balsam and Snood was seen as
a two-year-old. As will be noted, they had come
together in the Limekiln Stakes ; in the New-
market Stakes, when Balsamo was second, beaten
a neck by Galeazzo, Bay Ronald fourth, some
four lengths behind ; and they met again in the
City and Suburban of 1897, with which the four-
year-old labours of both of them began. The
Limekiln Stakes had seemed to settle the question
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between the two, though it was contradictory of
some earlier form taken through Shaddock.
This last named was a fairly good colt. As a
three-year-old he had won six of his eight races,
worth ;^5852, but in the Hardwicke Stakes, as
already set forth, he had shown great superiority
to Bay Ronald, whereas in the Prince of Wales's
Stakes at Ascot, Balsamo, in receipt of only i lb.
from Shaddock, had run the Duke's horse to a
neck. Nevertheless Balsamo was distinctly pre-
ferred for the Epsom Spring Handicap.
Epsom, 1897.
The City and Suburban Handicap of 2000 sovs., by
subscription of 35 sovs. each, 20 ft., or 5 sovs. if
declared, with 805 sovs. added ; second received
200 sovs. and third 100 sovs. out of the race.
About one mile and a quarter. (62 subs., 18 of
whom paid 5 sovs. each — £166$-)
Duke of Devonshire's Balsamo, by Friar's
Balsam, 4 yrs., 7 st. 4 lb. . . O. Madden i
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 7 lb. . . . . Allsopp 2
Sir J. Miller's La Sagesse, 5 yrs., 7 st.
12 lb
Baron de Rothschild's Amandier, aged,
8 St. 2 lb.
Lord Ellesmere's Villiers, 5 yrs., 7 st. .
Lord Rosebery's Quarrel, 6 yrs., 8 st.
12 lb. (car. 8 St. 13 lb.)
Mr. P. Lorillard's Diakka, 4 yrs., 7 st.
12 lb. (car. 7 St. 13 lb.)
50
S. Loates
3
C. Wood
0
S. Chandley
0
J. Watts
0
Bradford
0
AND HER OFFSPRING
Mr. Richard Croker's Santa Anita,
6 yrs., 7 St. 12 lb. . . . J. Woodburn o
Mr. B. I. Barnato's Stowmarket, 6 yrs.,
7 St. 10 lb. . . . . Finlay o
Mr. Theobald's Phoebus Apollo, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 2 lb J. Wall o
Mr, T. Simpson Jay's Rampion, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 2 lb. . . . . . K. Cannon o
Prince Soltykoff's South Australian, 4
yrs., 6 St. 1 3 lb. . . . Robinson o
Mr. Straus' Teufel, 4 yrs., 6 st. 12 lb. . Toon o
Lord Derby's Crestfallen, 3 yrs., 6 st.
10 lb. (car. 6 St. 11 lb.) . . J. Sharpies o
Mr. C. D. Rose's Melfitana, 3 yrs., 6 st.
7 lb. (car. 6 st. 9 lb.) . . . Fearie o
Betting. — 9 to 2 against Balsamo, 100 to 15 Stow-
market, 9 to I Teufel, 100 to 11 Bay Ronald, 100 to 9
each South Australian and Quarrel, 100 to 8 Crestfallen,
100 to 7 Melfitana, 100 to 6 Amandier, 20 to i Diakka,
28 to I Villiers, 33 to i Rampion, 40 to i La Sagesse,
50 to I each Santa Anita and Phoebus Apollo. Won
by half a length ; three lengths between second and
third. Amandier and Villiers ran a dead heat for fourth
place, beaten a short head.
The first and second thus came out as nearly
as possible the same horse, and the running was
certainly meritorious. La Sagesse, after winning
the Oaks, had afforded evidence of continued well-
being by winning the Derby Cup as a four-year-
old, after just missing the Newmarket October
Handicap, giving 29 lb. to the winner — a three-
year-old, however — and failing by only half a
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length. Bay Ronald was next seen at Ascot,
and in an important race which, it will be per-
ceived, he was confidently expected to take.
Ascot, 1897.
The Hardwicke Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 2000
sovs. added; for three-year-olds and upwards ; second
received 10 per cent, and third 5 per cent, of
the whole stake. Swinley Course. (61 subs. —
;^2378, lOS.)
Mr. L, Brassey's Bay Ronald, by Hamp-
ton, 4 yrs., 9 St. 7 lb. . . . Bradford i
Lord Cadogan's Lowly, 3 yrs., 7 st. 4 lb. . Robinson 2
Mr. Hamar Bass's b. c. by St. Serf —
Novitiate, 3 yrs., 7 st. 7 lb. . . F. Finlay 3
Duke of Devonshire's Minstrel, 3 yrs., 8 st.
8 lb M.Cannon 4
Mr. C. D. Rose's Frisson, 3 yrs., 7 st. 12 lb. S. Loates o
Lord Rosebery's Trawler, 3 yrs., 7 st. 7 lb. AIlsopp o
Betting. — 11 to 10 against Bay Ronald, 4 to i each
the Novitiate colt and Minstrel, 10 to i each Lowly and
Trawler. Won by two lengths; six lengths between
second and third.
It may be said the opposition was not strong,
for though Minstrel had won the Ascot Derby
he had only been opposed by one very poor filly.
After this Bay Ronald flew at high game.
Tenth Renewal of the Eclipse Stakes of ;^9285. Eclipse
Stakes Course. One mile and a quarter.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales's Persimmon,
4 yrs., 10 St. 2 lb. . . . .J. Watts i
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AND HER OFFSPRING
Lord Rosebery's Velasquez, 3 yrs., 9 st.
4 lb C. Wood 2
Mr. Leonard Brassey's Bay Ronald, 4 3TS.,
9 St. 1 3 lb. . . . . . Bradford 3
Mr. A. F. Calvert's Bradwardine, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 61b. . . . . . T. Loates 4
M. Ephrussi's Beato, 4 yrs., 9 st. 10 lb. . T. Lane 5
Betting. — 100 to i 2 on Persimmon, 100 to 8 against
Velasquez, 25 to i Bay Ronald, 33 to i Bradwardine,
40 to I Beato. Won by two lengths ; four lengths
second and third. Time, 2 mins. 9I sees.
The race came out, it will be noted, precisely
in accordance with anticipation, Bay Ronald
doing neither better nor worse than it seemed
likely he would do. In the Champion Stakes at
the Newmarket Second October Meeting he again
encountered Velasquez. At Sandown he had
been trying to give 9 lb. and had been beaten
four lengths. At Newmarket, 2 to i being laid
on Velasquez, Lord Rosebery's colt beat him by
a couple of lengths, which might have been ex-
tended to four had there been any object. Though
constantly set tasks which he could not possibly
accomplish his reputation suffered little, and by
the time the Cambridgeshire Handicap was made
it was supposed that a considerable margin sepa-
rated him from his old antagonist Balsamo, for
Bay Ronald carried 8 st. 6 lb., the Duke of
Devonshire's colt 7 st. 10 lb. Neither had any-
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thing to do with the finish, which was a question
of heads between Comfrey, St. Cloud II, Sandia,
and Cortegar. He was out once more as a four-
year-old for the Liverpool Autumn Cup, not
fancied, with 8 st. 3 lb., as the odds of 25 to i
against him make plain.
Liverpool, 1897.
The Liverpool Autumn Cup (handicap) of 1200 sovs. by
subscription of 2 5 sovs. each, 1 5 ft., or 5 sovs. if
declared, with 595 sovs. added; second received 70
sovs. and third 50 sovs. out of the race. Cup Course,
one mile and three furlongs. (53 subs., 34 of whom
paid 5 sovs. each — ;i^i075.)
Lord Stanley's Chiselhampton, by
Hampton, 4 yrs., 8 st. i lb.
Capt. Bewicke's General Peace, 3 yrs.,
6 St. 12 lb.
Duke of Westminster's Labrador, 4 yrs.,
8 St. 5 lb. (car. 8 st. 6 lb.)
Lord W. Beresford's Nunsuch, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 8 lb
Mr. Dobell's The Rush, 5 yrs., 9 st. .
Mr. A. Cohen's Greenlawn, 6 yrs.,
8 St. 6 lb
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, 4 yrs.,
8 St. 3 lb
Mr. A. F. Calvert's Bradwardine, 4 yrs.,
8 st
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Jaquemart,
3 yrs., 7 St. 6 lb. .
Col. Paget's Waterhen, 3 yrs., 7 st.
6 lb
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S. Loates
I
N. Robinson
2
M. Cannon
3
0. Madden
4
J. Watts
• 0
Bradford
0
F. Finlay
0
C. Wood
0
T. Loates
T. Fiely
AND HER OFFSPRING
Mr. Jersey's Maluma, 5 yrs., 7 st. 4 lb. J. Sharpies o
Mr. J. Bibby's Chin Chin, 6 yrs., 7 st.
4 lb. . . . . Allsopp o
Mr. H. C. White's Form, 5 yrs., 7 st.
3 lb. . . . . . Sloan o
Mr. Dobell's Sligo, 3 yrs., 7 st. 3 lb. . S. Chandley o
Mr. F. C. G. Menzies' Laughing Girl,
3 yrs., 7 St. I lb. (car. 7 st. 3 lb.) K. Cannon o
Betting. — 9 to 2 against General Peace, 5 to i Labrador,
100 to 14 each Greenlawn and Nunsuch, lOO to 12 The
Rush, 10 to I Bradwardine, 100 to 8 Chiselhampton, 100
to 6 Jaquemart, 20 to i each Waterhen, Maluma, and
Sligo, 25 to I Bay Ronald, 40 to i Form, and 50 to i
Laughing Girl. Won by a head ; two lengths between
second and third.
As a five-year-old in 1898 Bay Ronald led off
by winning the race with which his name is
chiefly associated, the City and Suburban.
Epsom, 1898.
The City and Suburban Handicap of 2000 sovs. by
subscription of 35 sovs. each, 20 ft. or 5 sovs. if
declared, with 970 sovs. added ; second received
200 sovs. and the third 100 sovs. out of the race.
About one mile and a quarter. (50 subs., 16 of
whom paid 5 sovs. each — £166^.)
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, by
Hampton, 5 yrs., 7 st. 12 lb.
(car. 8 St.) .... Bradford i
Mr. W. Cooper's Newhaven H, 5 yrs.,
8 St. 8 lb Rickaby 2
Mr. F. R. Hunt, jun.'s, Craftsman,
3 yrs., 6 St. 2 lb. . . . C. Purkis 3
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Mr. H. M'Calmont's Knight of the
Thistle, 5 yrs., 8 st. 6 lb. .
Captain Greer's Kilcock, 6 yrs., 9 st.
4 lb
Mr. P. Lorillard's Sandia, 4 yrs., 8 st.
4 lb
Mr. Fairie's Eager, 4 yrs., 8 st. 4 lb. . Allsopp
Lord Stanley's Chiselhampton, 5 yrs.,
8 St. 2 lb
Lord Rosebery's Chelandry, 4 yrs.,
8 St
Mr. J. R. Keene's St. Cloud II, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 13 lb. .
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales' Nunsuch,
4 yrs., 7 St. 6 lb. .
Mr. H. T. Barclay's Ashburn, 4 yrs.,
7 St. 4 lb. (car. 7 st. 5 lb.)
Mr. Theobalds' Phcfibus Apollo, 5 yrs.,
7 St. .
Mr. C. D. Rose's Melfitana, 4 yrs.,
7 St. .
Mr. Jersey's Brayhead, 4 yrs., 6 st.
10 lb. (car. 6 St. 13 lb.) .
Mr. T. Cannon's Amphidemas, aged,
6 St. 12 lb.
Mr. H. C. White's Form, 6 yrs., 6 st.
1 2 lb
Lord Ellesmere's Fortalice, 4 yrs., 6 st.
1 1 lb
M. Cannon
4
J. Watts
0
S. Loates
0
Allsopp
0
N. Robinson
0
C. Wood
0
T. Loates
0
0. Madden
0
J. Sharpies
0
Segrott
0
R. Jones
0
H. Toon
0
T. Dunn
0
J. Wall
0
H. Jones
0
Betting. — 8 to i each against Kilcock and Knight of
the Thistle, 1 00 to 12 each Sandia and Bay Ronald, 9 to
I each Eager and Nunsuch, 100 to 6 each Chelandry,
Newhaven II, and St. Cloud II, 20 to i each Amphi-
damas and Fortalice, 25 to i each Brayhead and Crafts-
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man, 40 to i each Ashburn, Phoebus Apollo, and Melfi-
tana, 50 to i Chiselhampton, and lOO to i Form. Won
by two lengths ; a head between second and third.
Kilcock, the favourite, was, it will be seen, en-
deavouring to give Bay Ronald 20 lb. Knight of
the Thistle was a horse whose name has occurred
several times in previous pages. The difference
between 100 to 12 and 8 to i is so small that
Bay Ronald may be described as having practi-
cally started favourite, with Eager hardly less in
demand. Bay Ronald, as already noted, had
shown his liking for the course twelve months
previously, and he won in good style from New-
haven II, who was imported from Australia by
the present Sir William Cooper. This horse was
destined to follow Bay Ronald's example, for he
won, carrying 9 st., the following season, as Mr.
Leonard Brassey's horse had done after being
second at his first essay on the course. In the
Epsom Cup, then run over the Derby course as
the Coronation Cup is at present. Bay Ronald
showed that there was certainly no mistake about
hit victory at the Spring Meeting.
Epsom, 1898.
The Epsom Cup of 500 sovs. (a Cup value 100 sovs. and
the remainder in specie) added to a Sweepstakes of
20 sovs. each, or 5 sovs. if declared ; second received
50 sovs. out of the stakes. The Derby Course, about
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one mile and a half. (20 subs., one of whom paid
5 sovs. — ;^8i5.)
Mr. L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, by Hamp-
ton, 5 yrs., 9 St. 6 lb. . . Bradford i
Mr. William Cooper's Newhaven II,
5 yrs., 9 St. 6 lb. . . . Rickaby 2
Mr. J. C. Sullivan's Winkfield's Pride,
5 yrs., 9 St. 6 lb. . . -J. Watts 3
Mr. Jersey's Merman, 6 yrs., 8 st. 10 lb. C. Wood o
Mr. Douglas Baird's Champ de Mars,
3 yrs., 8 St, . . . . O. Madden o
Betting. — 11 to 10 on Winkfield's Pride, 2 to i
against Newhaven II, and 10 to i each Champ de Mars
and Bay Ronald. Won by two lengths ; four lengths
between second and third.
This was indeed doubtless his best perform-
ance, obviously better than in the Handicap, as
here he was meeting Newhaven H at even weights
instead of receiving 8 lb., as he had done five
weeks previously. Here, too, was Winkfield's
Pride, beating whom was certainly an achieve-
ment, for he was really a good horse. He had
run second to Persimmon for the Ascot Cup ;
and, though very easily beaten, readily defeated
in turn Mr. Hamar Bass's Love Wisely, and
Limasol who had beaten Chelandry and others,
including Goletta, in the Oaks. Among the
runners for this last-named race was Galatia, a
daughter of Galopin and Pamela, not of course
to be confused with Galicia, who gives the title
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to this book. Winkfield's Pride, besides winning*
the Lincolnshire Handicap with 8 st. 9 lb., had
carried off the valuable Prix du Conseil Municipal
in Paris in what was certainly a representative
field, and the result was fully anticipated, more-
over, as only 5 to 4 was laid against him, 5 to i
against Omnium H and Masque, 10 to i against
Elf, the three last-named having been considered
good enough to send to England for the Gold
Cup. A winner of the great Ascot race, Merman,
was also in the Epsom Cup, in receipt, moreover,
of 10 lb. from the three placed horses. After
Epsom it is evident that Bay Ronald made ex-
cellent progress, the betting for the coveted
Ascot trophy furnishing proof.
I have just been talking about the slight
difference between 8 to i and 100 to 12 ; that
between 100 to 30 and 7 to 2 is still less, a detail
suggested by the betting- on the Ascot Cup.
Ascot, 1898.
The Gold Cup, value 1000 sovs., with 3000 sovs. in
specie (of which the second received 700 sovs. and
the third 300 sovs.), added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs.
each, h. ft. ; three-year-olds, 7 st. 7 lb. ; four, 9 st. ;
five, six, and aged, 9 st. 4 lb. ; m. and g. allowed
3 lb. Starting at the Cup Post and going once round,
about two miles and a half. (29 subs. — >^33 50.)
Mr. J. de Bremond's ch. h. Elf II, by
Upas, 5 yrs. . . . . E. Watkins i
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. 0. Madden
2
>
J. Torterolo
3
). M. Cannon
4
Bradford
o
Barlen
o
T. Lane
o
C, Grey
o
Rush and Masq
ue
lid, and lOO to
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Mr. Dobell's ch. h. The Rush, 6 yrs.
Mr. P. Torterolo's ch. h. Cartouche III,
aged ....
Sir S. Scott's b. or br. c. History, 4 yrs.
Mr. L. Brassey's b. h. Bay Ronald, 5 yrs.
M. E. Blanc's b. c. Masque II, 4 yrs.
M. E. Blanc's ch. c. Montegut, 4 yrs.
M. E. Blanc's b. c. Longbow, 4 yrs.
Betting. — lOO to 30 each against The
II, 7 to 2 each Elf II and Bay Ronal
History. Won by a length and a half; a bad third.
Bay Ronald cannot be said to have run well.
The Rush, though he had won the Gold Vase,
beating Newhaven II, who was third, by half a
dozen lengths, was generally rated as a mere handi-
cap horse, and much the same may be said of Sir
Samuel Scott's History. It will be observed how
vigorous was the French attempt on the Cup this
year, four of the eight starters having come from
across the Channel, Longbow one of them in
spite of his English name. He was a son of The
Bard and a mare called Old Bow.
The Epsom Cup was to be Bay Ronald's last
victory. He tried again for the Hardwicke
Stakes, which, as noted, he had taken the pre-
vious season.
Ascot, 1898.
The Hardwicke Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 2000 sovs.
added ; second received 10 per cent, and third 5 per
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cent, of the whole stake. Swinley Course. (65 subs.
— ^2242, los.)
Duke of Westminster's Collar, by St.
Simon, 3 yrs., 7 st. 12 lb. . . O. Madden i
Mr, L. Brassey's Bay Ronald, 5 yrs.,
9 St. 12 lb. . . . . Bradford 2
Mr. C. D, Rose's Cortegar, 4 yrs., 9 st.
7 lb. . . . . S, Loates 3
Sir J. Blundell Maple's Devon, 3 yrs.,
7 St. I 2 lb C. Wood 4
Mr. L. Brassey's Merry Buck, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 1 2 lb. . . . T. Loates o
Mr. Russel's Nenuphar, 3 yrs., 7 St. 12 lb. Toon o
Sir M. FitzGerald's Sweet Hampton, 3
yrs., 7 St. 4 lb. (car. 7 st. 5 lb.) . N. Robinson o
(Mr, Brassey declared to win with Bay Ronald.)
Betting. — i 5 to 8 against Collar, 9 to 4 Bay Ronald, 1 1
to 2 Devon, 100 to 12 Cortegar, and 10 to i any other.
Won by three lengths ; a length and a half between second
and third.
Weight for age over a mile and a half in June
between a three-year-old and a five-year-old is
20 lb., and Bay Ronald was giving 28 lb., so that
without that advantage it may be assumed he
would have won. It was not expected that he
would beat Lord Rosebery's Velasquez in the
Champion Stakes. The two ran at evens, odds
of 1 1 to 4 on Lord Rosebery's colt, 1 1 to 4
against Bay Ronald, 200 to i against the other
runner, a colt called Goblin, who was a very bad
third, Velasquez winning by a length. Bay
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Ronald tried again in the Lowther Stakes two
days later, but it may be that his previous race
had done him no good. He was last of three
behind Prince Soltykoffs Ninus and the Duke
of Westminster's Batt. Ninus was very useful,
however, and Batt, a half-brother to Flying Fox
by Sheen, had won his two previous races, as
also the Payne Stakes in the Spring, had run
second for the Derby, beaten only three parts of
a length by Mr. Larnach's Jeddah, and had also
been second to Velasquez for the Eclipse Stakes.
Mr. Leonard Brassey's horse was to make one final
appearance. This was in the Jockey Club Cup.
Newmarket, 1898.
The Jockey Club Cup of 300 sovs. (a Cup, value 130
sovs., and the remainder in specie), added to a Sweep-
stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for three-year-olds
7 St. 12 lb., four 8 St. 12 lb., five 9 st. i lb., six and
aged 9 St. 2 lb.; m. and g. allowed 3 lb. ; second
received 50 sovs. out of the stakes. Cesarewitch
Course. (15 subs. — £4 1 o.)
Mr. Jersey's ch. h. Merman, by Grand
Flaneur, 6 yrs. . . . . M. Cannon i
Mr. Dobell's ch. h. The Rush, 6 yrs, . O. Madden 2
Mr. L. Brassey's b. h. Bay Ronald, 5 yrs. Bradford 3
Belling. — 1 1 to 10 against Merman, 7 to 4 The Rush,
and 5 to I Bay Ronald. Won by four lengths ; a bad
third.
It may be presumed that Bay Ronald was not
so good a stayer as the other two ; indeed this
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may be accepted as beyond question, the Ascot
Cup confirming' it in the case of The Rush, and
as for Merman, a comparison of this Jockey Club
Cup with the Epsom Cup tells its own tale.
Bay Ronald retired to the Preston Stud Farm
at Aylesford in Kent, and stood at a fee of 25
g-uineas in the year 1900. To sum up his per-
formances, as a two-year-old he was out five
times without success ; as a three-year-old he
won two stakes in eight attempts, of the value of
^1585 ; his solitary win as a four-year-old in six
attempts yielded ^2378, and his two five-year-old
races produced ^2480. Thus altogether Bay
Ronald ran twenty-six times, winning five races
worth ^6443. The record is far from being a
great one.
It is always particularly interesting to have an
owner's account of his horse, and Major Leonard
Brassey, though busily engaged on duty with the
Northamptonshire Yeomanry at the time when
I begged him to give me some account of his
horse, most kindly sent the following sketch :
BAY RONALD
Bay Ronald by Hampton — Black Duchess
was bred in 1893 by Mr. T. Phillips at the
Leybourne Grange Stud, and was sent up for sale
at Doncaster in 1894 with Mr. Phillips' other
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yearlings. I recollect my trainer, Tom Jennings,
jun., writing to me shortly after the Doncaster
Meeting to say that he had seen a nice yearling
of Mr. Phillips' there which had failed to fetch
the reserve price of 500 guineas. Tom Jennings
suggested that as I lived close to Leybourne
Grange I might like to go over and see the colt.
This I did, with the result that Bay Ronald
became my property.
I bought Black Duchess, the dam of Bay
Ronald, at the sale at the Second October
Meeting, 1896, curiously enough but a few
hours before Bay Ronald won his first race, the
Lowther Stakes. About the same time I remem-
ber Mr, M. Gurry offering to sell me for ^200
a half-sister to Bay Ronald, Black Cherry, by
Bendigo — ^Black Duchess. This I declined, but
Colonel W. Hall Walker — with better judgment — ■
purchased this mare, and she became the dam of
Black Arrow, Cherry Lass (winner of the Oaks),
Jean's Folly, and therefore the grand-dam of
Night Hawk, winner of the St. Leger of 1913.
As a two-year-old Bay Ronald was not of much
account, nor indeed did he " come to hand " before
the latter part of his three-year-old career, when
he won the Lowther Stakes and Limekiln Stakes
at Newmarket. He began his four-year-old season
by running second to Balsamo in the City and
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AND HER OFFSPRING
Suburban, g-ivingf 3 lb. I always look upon this
as perhaps the most unlucky race of my Turf
career. As after events proved, Bay Ronald
was an exceptionally good horse on the Epsom
Course. He was very well on the day, and he
should certainly have beaten Balsamo. Bay
Ronald subsequently won the Hardwicke Stakes
at Ascot, but could only run third to Persimmon
and Velasquez in the Eclipse Stakes, and second
to Velasquez in the Champion Stakes at New-
market.
As a five-year-old Bay Ronald won the City
and Suburban and the Epsom Cup, beating- New-
haven H and Winkfield's Pride. He was then
trained for the Ascot Gold Cup, in which he ran
unplaced. My action in this matter was scarcely
judicious. The horse never showed ability to
stay more than a mile and a half, and a severe
preparation for the Cup, followed by the race on
hard ground, in all probability had a permanently
adverse effect. I think Bay Ronald* was never
afterwards in the form he was when he so easily
won the Epsom Cup.
On the day following the Gold Cup he ran
second to Collar in the Hardwicke Stakes.
After his struggle the previous day on very
hard ground I do not think this can be taken
as Bay Ronald's true form. Collar had won
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the Trial Stakes on the first day of the
Ascot Meeting, and John Porter sent the horse
back to Kingsclere on the Wednesday, not in-
tending to bring him out again at the Meeting.
On the Thursday evening, reaUsing that horses
which had run for the Gold Cup would probably
not be at their best on the following day, and
that the remainder of the opposition was not
likely to be strong. Porter telegraphed for Collar
to be sent back to Ascot, with the result that he
won the nice stake of ;^2242 for the Duke of
Westminster.
There is little to relate of Bay Ronald's sub-
sequent performances on the Turf, except that
Tom Jennings — by no means one of the ''Cock-
sure Brigade" — was rather confident that he
would win the Goodwood Cup of that year.
Owing to a family bereavement the day before
the race I did not run him.
Though Bay Ronald achieved a fair amount
of success on the racecourse one cannot describe
him as having been quite a first-class racehorse.
His form was certainly somewhat variable, this
being accounted for, I think, by the fact that his
constitution as a young horse was not of a very
robust character, and strong preparations for long-
distance races may have rather taken the steel
out of him later on.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
Bay Ronald with very limited opportunities
was a distinct success at the Stud. His most
conspicuous sons are Bayardo, Dark Ronald,
and Macdonald H, the latter a first-class race-
horse and a most successful stallion in France.
One talks of "the glorious uncertainty" of
the Turf. The glorious uncertainty of breeding-
racehorses is hardly less. At the December sales
at Newmarket in 1897 I recollect that Prince
Pierre d'Arenberg and the Comte de Pourtales
came round Tom Jennings' stables one evening.
The former had bought at the sales that day a
mare called Marie, and was doubtful what he
should do with her. I suggested that he might
send her to Bay Ronald, who was just about to
commence Stud duties. This was done, and
Macdonald H was the result.
I sold Bay Ronald for ;^5000 to go to France,
unfortunately before Bayardo and Dark Ronald
appeared upon the scene. He did not, how-
ever, live long to bring profit to his new
owners or further fame to himself, as he died in
1905. Bay Ronald grew into a beautiful and
most bloodlike stallion, with a very perfect head
and neck.
So Major Leonard Brassey most kindly
wrote. To continue my own narrative, it was
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not long before Bay Ronald began to make his
mark at the Stud. In 1902 when his offspring
first ran five of them won ten races worth ^3789,
Rondeau securing five of these, and Arabi, a son
of his owner's Merry Miser, taking the Great Foal
Plate (^835) at Lingfield, and the Astley Stakes
(;^69o) at Lewes, besides being placed in five of
his other eight races. In the Bedford Stakes at
the Newmarket Second July Arabi was second
to Rock Sand, and on the occasion of his first
appearance, in the Sandown Park Stud Produce
Stakes, third to Our Lassie, who was to win the
Oaks next year, and to Mr. Arthur James's good
horse, Rabelais, who has been so brilliantly
successful at the Stud in France. A result of all
this was the increase of Bay Ronald's fee to 100
guineas, and a note in the record states that he
was full for 1904, Rondeau having continued to
win in 1903, Merryman and Wild Oats also
adding to his reputation ; in all his five young
ones won twelve races worth ^6191. Merryman,
who after a first appearance in the Brocklesby
took three consecutive races worth ^2424, was
an own brother to Arabi. In 1904 there was
no new horse of note among his seven winners
(of twelve races worth ^^3560). Merryman was
out three times without success, and in 1905
there was a drop, six horses winning ten races
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of small value, the whole amounting to only
Mr. Fairie, however, had determined to send
Galicia to the horse in 1905, though he can-
not have been much gratified with Bay Ronald's
record for the season. Arabi won four little
races worth ^^799, an indifferent colt called
Galhampton just got home by a neck for a
Plate worth £262, and Ronaldo took a couple
of minor stakes worth ;{!220. Thus seven
races worth £12^1 was the total. In 1905 the
fee had been reduced to 75 guineas. The year
1907 produced only Dark Ronald of any real
note, though Rousay won thrice and was second
in four of his other five races. Dark Ronald
only appeared on two occasions, the first time suc-
cessfully in the Hurst Park Foal Plate, which he
won, though only by a head, from a colt called
Quimpert, who was giving him 3 lb. ; his second
attempt was in the Great Foal Plate at Lingfield,
when a remarkably speedy animal called Little
Flutter, in receipt of 15 lb., beat him three
lengths, odds of 6 to i being laid on the winner.
Bay Ronald was on the up grade ; seven of
his get won twelve races worth ^3660 ; but there
seemed no reason to assume that such brilliant
distinction as that which he achieved was in store
for him, that he was going to rise speedily to
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eminence among sires ; for owing to Bayardo he
took his place at the end of the 1908 season third
in the list, following Persimmon and St. Frusquin,
in front of Gallinule, St. Simon, Chaleureux —
who, of course, owed his position to the amazing
victories of Signorinetta — and Desmond.
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CHAPTER HI
BAYARDO
A NUMBER of good horscs have made their first
appearance in the New Stakes at Ascot, and
Bayardo's name figures among them. His trial
at Manton on the 9th of June by no means
strikes one as overwhelming. The distance was
five furlongs.
Bayardo, 2 yrs., 8 st. 8 lb.
Seedcake, 3 yrs., 8 st. 8 lb. .
Smuggler, 2 yrs., 7 st. i lb. .
Lady Vista, 2 yrs., 8 st. 5 lb.
Highness, 2 yrs., 8 st. 5 lb. .
Madden i
Toon 2
Hulse 3
Broadwood o
Baker o
Won easily by six lengths ; a length between second
and third.
Of course, it was something to beat a three-
year-old at even weights ; but Seedcake had run
in half a dozen races prior to this gallop without
ever having been placed, three as a two-year-old,
three in 1908, and in the Trial Stakes with which
this Ascot Meeting opened he was last. Prob-
ably he was a better horse at home than out.
Four others were preferred to Bayardo in the
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New Stakes, which is on the whole not strange.
There was a strong favourite at 6 to 4 in Mr.
(as he then was) WilHam Cooper's Perola, ridden
by Maher. She had easily carried off the Wood-
cote Stakes at Epsom, fourth in which race had
been a colt of Lord Rosebery's called Perdiccas.
At Epsom Perdiccas had been giving Perola 10
lb., he being penalised for two successes. In
the New Stakes he had 7 lb. the better of the
weights with the filly, and it was thought that so
great a variation would change the result. Mr.
J. B. Joel's Sunflower II was backed on the
strength of private reputation. But the race
was never in doubt.
Ascot, 1908.
New Stakes of \?fio each, with ;^iooo added, of which
second received 10 percent, and third 5 per cent, ;
for two-year-olds. Five furlongs. (115 entries —
£l2>l7y IDS.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
8 St. 10 lb B. Dillon i
Lord Rosebery's Perdiccas, 8 st. 10 lb. W. Higgs 2
Mr. William C. Cooper's Perola, 9 st. D. Maher 3
Mr. E.Carlton's Corinnus, 8 st. 10 lb. C. Leader o
Mr. J. B. Joel's Sunflower II, 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . . Walter Griggs o
Mr. H. J. King's Pernambuco, 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . F. Wooton o
Mr. W. Raphael's Blankney II, 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . . H. Jones o
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W. Halsey
O
L. Lyne
o
W. Saxby
O
0. Madden
o
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Sir E. Cassel's Turban, 8 st. 7 lb.
Sir Daniel Cooper's Vivid, 8 st. 7 lb. .
Mr. E. L. Heinemann's b. f. by St.
Maclou — Raniondia, 8 st. 7 lb. .
Mr. J. H. Houldsworth's Doro, 8 st.
7 lb
Mr. W. M. G. Singer's b. f. by St.
Maclou — Great Dame, 8 st. 7 lb. W. Broadwood o
Mr. W. Hall Walker's Blue Cap,
8 St. 7 lb H. Randall o
Betting. — 6 to 4 against Perola, 5 to i Perdiccas,
6 to I Sunflower 11, 7 to i Bayardo, 10 to i Doro,
100 to 8 Blankney II. Won by one and a half lengths ;
neck second and third.
Writing at the time under the signature
''Rapier" in the Illustrated Sporting and Dra-
matic News^ my comment on the race was : "It
soon became evident that Manton shelters the
best colt of the season out so far," and there was
no occasion to amend the last three words when
the season was over. " Mr. Fairie has had some
horses of high class," I continued, "and he tells
me he thinks this undoubtedly the best he has
ever owned."
There could not well have been a more pro-
mising start, and when Bayardo came out again
for the National Breeders' Produce Stakes at
Sandown, the most valuable two-year-old prize
in existence, he was favourite as a matter of
course.
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Sandown, 1908.
National Breeders' Produce Stakes of ;^5000, of
which nominator of winner received ;^300, nomi-
nator and owner of second each £^200, and
nominator and owner of third each ;!{^ioo, by
subscription of ;i^i each ; if left in after January i,
1907, a further ^5 ; if left in after October 8, 1907,
a further £16 ; and if left in after March 31, 1908,
a further £2 i ; with £4^7 added ; for two-year-olds.
Five furlongs. (268 entrants, viz. 71 at £4^, 43 at
;i^22, 82 at £6, and 72 at ;^i — ;^4357.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 2 lb.
Lord Howard de Walden's ch. c. by
Gallinule — Excellenza, 9 st. i lb.
Sir Daniel Cooper's Vivid, 8 st. 7 lb. .
W. Raphael's Louviers, 9 st. 5 lb.
Mr. C. Bower Ismay'sBalnacoil,9st.2 lb.
Lord Rosebery's Perdiccas, 9 st. i lb.
Mr. H. S. Goodson's Diospyros, 8 st.
10 lb
Colonel H. T. Fenwick's Hamerton,
8 St. 10 lb
Lord Michelham's William the Fourth,
8 St. 10 lb
Mr. R. S. Sievier's The Jabberwock,
8 St. 10 lb
Mr. J. B. Thorneycroft's Kilmein, 8 st.
7 lb
Mr. Reid Walker's Dinnet, 8 st. 3 lb.
Lord Rosebery's Tantonie Bell, 8 st. .
Mr. J. B. Joel's ch. c. by Sundridge —
Sweet Story, 8 st. .
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Bayardo, 5 to i Excellenza c,
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D. Maher
H. Randall
L. Lyne
H. Jones
W. Saxby
W. Higgs
J. H. Martin
W. Halsey
Wm. Griggs
B. Dillon
F. Wootton
O. Madden
C. Trigg
Walter Griggs o
AND HER OFFSPRING
10 to I Sweet Story c, loo to 9 The Jabberwock, 100
to 8 Kilmein, 100 to 7 Perdiccas, lOO to 6 any other.
Won by a length ; half a length second and third. Kilmein
whipped round at the start and was left.
The unfortunate thing about this race was
the reputation it earned for the second, Lord
Howard de Walden's Excellenza colt, afterwards
named Glasgerion ; for as Bayardo's fame grew
so did opinion as to what might be accom-
plished by the animal who had run him to a
length. That, however, is a matter which does
not come into the present story. It is not by
any means always that the best-looking horse
is the best performer. Bayardo, however, was
full of quality, and admiration for him steadily
increased. There is a progression of stakes,
as it may be called, in which one expects to
find the very best two-year-olds, and the Rich-
mond at Goodwood is one of them. Great
names appear in the record of this event —
Jannette, Wheel of Fortune, Bend Or, Dutch
Oven, Friar's Balsam, Orme, Persimmon, and
others ; and Bayardo won it at his leisure.
No doubt was entertained of the result, but
at the same time not a little was thought of
Sir Daniel Cooper's Vivid, who, it will be
seen, was receiving 12 lb. more than sex
allowance.
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Goodwood, 1908.
Richmond Stakes of £2$ each, 10 ft. for acceptors, with
i^5oo added, of which second received ;^200 and
third ;^ioo; for two-year-olds. Entrance £^, only
ft. if declared. T.Y.C. Six furlongs. (73 entrants,
ft. declared for 31 — £6$2.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, 9 st.
8 lb D. Maher i
Sir Daniel Cooper's Vivid, 8 st. 7 lb. . L. Lyne 2
His Majesty's Oakmere, 8 st. 10 lb. . H. Jones 3
Mr. J. Buchanan's Sister Betty, 8 st. 7 lb, W. Halsey o
Betting. — 3 to i on Bayardo, 4 to i against Vivid,
20 to I any other. Won by three lengths ; two lengths
second and third.
Bayardo's task at the Newmarket First
October Meeting was of the simplest.
Newmarket, 1908.
BucKENHAM (post producc) Stakes of ^^300 each, h. ft. ;
for two-year-olds. T.Y.C. Five furlongs 134
yards. (11 subs. — ;^I500.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, 9 st. D. Maher i
Mr. S. B. Joel's Bonnie Lassie, 8 st. 1 1 lb. H. Randall 2
Duke of Portland's Vivario, 8 st. i i lb. . W. Earl 3
Betting. — 2 5 to i on Bayardo. Won by three-quarters
of a length ; four lengths second and third.
Bonnie Lassie had been out half a dozen
times without winning* ; Vivario, belonging to the
Duke of Portland, a daughter of Ayrshire and
Miss Gunning II, was sent from Kingsclere on
an utterly hopeless errand. She was seen no
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more that year and only twice as a three-year-old,
when it became unmistakably clear that it was
useless to keep her in training. On the Friday
of the Meeting Bayardo came out again for the
Rous Memorial, opposed only by an animal
called Auceps, who, though he had — unexpec-
tedly— won a Maiden Plate on the first day of
the Meeting, was very bad.
Newmarket, 1908.
Rous Memorial Stakes of ;^i5 each, 10 ft. for acceptors,
with ;^400 added for owner and;6^ioo for nominator
of winner ; for two-year-olds ; second received £$0
out of the stakes ; entrance £^, only ft. if declared.
Rous Course, 5 furlongs. (50 entrants, ft. declared
for 21 — £7^0.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, 9 st. D. Maher i
Sir Daniel Cooper's Auceps, 8 st. 7 lb. , B. Lynham 2
Betting. — 20 to I on Bayardo. Won b}^ a length
and a half.
There was never the slightest doubt about the
odds of 20 to I laid on the son of Bay Ronald,
and really no more doubt about the Middle Park
Plate when that came on for decision.
Newmarket, 1908.
Middle Park Plate of .^{^500, added to a Sweepstakes of
£2)0 each, 20 ft., of which second received ;^200
and third £100; for two-year-olds; entrance £^ ;
of the surplus, viz. £7 St second received two-thirds
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and third the remainder. Bretby Stakes Course, 6
furlongs. (115 entrants — ^2505.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 3 lb. . . . . D. Maher i
Sir Daniel Cooper's Vivid, 9 st. . O. Madden 2
Mr. W. Raphael's Blankney II, 9 st. . W. Higgs 3
Mr. L. Neumann's Shikaree, 8 st. 10 lb. , B. Dillon o
Betting. — 6 to i on Bayardo, 10 to i against Vivid,
100 to 6 Blankney II, 100 to i Shikaree. Won by a
length ; four lengths second and third.
I do not remember in the history of this race
that there has ever been so hot a favourite, and
there never was so small a field, though when
one apparently invincible animal has gone to the
post, there have on a couple of occasions been five
starters : the number has extended to thirty, there
having been nine-and-twenty behind Petrarch in
1875. The procession of notable races to which
reference has been made includes the Dewhurst
Plate, and this brought out Bayardo for the last
time as a two-year-old.
Newmarket, 1908.
Dewhurst Plate of ;^300, added to a Sweepstakes of ^25
each, 15 ft., of which second received ;;^ioo ; for
two-year-olds ; entrance £1. Last 7 furlongs of
R.M. (83 entrants — £1477.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 5 lb. . . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. William C. Cooper's Perola, 9 st. . O. Madden 2
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Mr. Arthur James's ch. c. by Persimmon
— Lucina, 8 st. 9 lb. . . . H. Jones 3
Mr. George Faber's Great Peter, 8 st,
9 lb. W. Bullock o
Mr. H. J. King's Carrousel, 8 st. 9 lb. . H. Randall o
Mr. J. W. Larnach's Carbineer, 8 st. 9 lb. W. Saxby o
Betting. — 75 to 20 on Bayardo, 10 to i against Car-
rousel, 100 to 8 Perola. Won by three lengths; same
second and third.
Thus he had run seven times and never been
extended.
From the two-year-olds of 1908 it will be
realised that Bayardo stood out, and as a matter
of course he headed the Free Handicap for horses
of his age. It naturally followed that he was a pro-
nounced winter favourite for the Derby, and his
position in this respect would have strengthened
greatly but for the improvement which had taken
place in King Edward's Minoru, not Sandringham-
bred, as his other classic winners. Persimmon and
his younger brother Diamond Jubilee, had been,
but a son of Cyllene and Mother Seigel leased
from Colonel Hall Walker, and born at the Tully
Stud in Ireland.
Minoru had been put in the Free Handicap
at 7 St. 6 lb., in receipt of 22 lb. from Bayardo,
and that he could have improved sufficiently to
be a source of danger to Mr. Fairie's colt
it was impossible to suppose prior to the time
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when racing started in 1909. Minoru then went
to Newbury to run for the Greenham Stakes,
and he had done so well under the care of
Richard Marsh at Egerton House that he was
backed at 9 to 2, Lord Carnarvon's Valens a
favourite on whom slight odds were laid, sup-
ported with more confidence as Minoru had to
give him 5 lb. Visitors were, however, grati-
fied by the spectacle of the success of the Royal
colours. Minoru beat Valens a length and a
half, and an idea sprung up that he might have
an outside chance for the classics. This sug-
gestion was chiefly advanced, however, by those
who thought it would be a good thing for racing
if the King won another Derby, particularly as
no reigning King of England had done so in the
history of the race. That Minoru could beat
Bayardo few people seriously imagined, and
when the Two Thousand came round odds of
13 to 8 were laid on the son of Bay Ronald,
4 to I against Minoru. Bayardo was by no
means at his best. Of that there could be no
question. It was thought, nevertheless, that even
when backward in condition he could at any
rate beat the lot opposed to him. Indeed, with
the exception of Minoru, as will be seen from
the report of the race, no danger was appre-
hended.
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Newmarket, 1909.
Two Thousand Guineas Stakes of ;^ioo each, h. ft., for
entire colts and fillies foaled in 1906; colts 9 St.,
fillies 8 St. 9 lb. ; second received ;^400 and third
;^200 out of stakes. R.M. (193 entrants — ;^5ooo.)
His Majesty's br. c. Minoru, by Cyllene,
9 St.
Duke of Portland's b. c. Phaleron, 9 st.
Mr. W. Raphael's b. c. Louviers, 9 st.
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Bayardo, 9 st. .
Mr. J. Buchanan's b. c. Diamond Stud, 9 st.
Mr. J. B. Thorneycroft's b. c. Grimmet,
9 St. .
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's b. c. Fop, 9 st.
Mr. L. Neumann's b. c. Fidelio, 9 st.
Mr. Lionel Robinson's ch. c. Sealed
Orders, 9 st. .
Mr. Raphael's b. c. Blankney II, 9 st.
Col. E. W. Baird's b. c. Orange Bud, 9 st.
Betting. — 13 to 8 on Bayardo, 4 to i against Minoru,
100 to 7 Louviers, 20 to i Diamond Stud, 25 to i Fop,
Won by two lengths ; a length and a half second and third.
Layers of odds knew their fate when the
horses passed the Bushes, feeling convinced
nevertheless that this could not be the real Bay-
ardo. He ran without dash, and though his
defeat was attributed to unreadiness a vague sus-
picion arose that he might not be the horse he
had shown himself the previous season. This
notion so far strengthened as time went on as
to depose him from his position of favourite for
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H. Jones
I
. W. Earl
2
. G. Stern
3
. D. Maher
4
. W. Halsey
0
Wm. Griggs
0
. 0. Madden
0
. B. Dillon
0
3
F. Wootton
0
. W. Higgs
0
B. Lynham
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the Derby. Glowing accounts of the manner in
which Minoru had been thriving came from New-
market, and at the Turf headquarters another
formidable rival had arisen in Mr. Louis Winans's
Sir Martin, a son of Ogden and Lady Sterling,
whom his owner had imported from the United
States.
Sir Martin was trained by Joseph Cannon at
Lordship Farm, and early in the year I had been
down to have a look at him, to find a colt lacking
in quality, but nevertheless striking one as a
racehorse. He was introduced to the course in
a Welter Handicap at the Newmarket Second
Spring Meeting on the 12th of May, exactly a
fortnight before the Derby, and the class in this
Handicap not being good, three-year-old as Sir
Martin was, 9 st. 10 lb. was put on his back,
the lowest weight being 7 st. Dusky Slave, a
four-year-old filly belonging to Mr. J. B. Leigh,
was favourite, carrying 7 st. 9 lb., and Sir Martin,
giving 29 lb. and the year, equivalent to another
stone having regard to sex allowance, won very
easily by a length and a half, which might have
been considerably increased.
A result of this was that the American colt
started actually favourite for the Derby. He and
Minoru were so nearly on the same mark that
if a regular frequenter of the racecourse had
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been asked just prior to the start what was
favourite he would have been as likely to men-
tion one as the other. Admirers of Bayardo
had, nevertheless, lost little of their confidence,
many of them had lost none, and were delighted
at the possibility of obtaining odds of 9 to 2.
The fact that Maher was riding much gratified
a number of those who were interested in Mr.
Fairie's colt, but was not regarded by every-
one as immensely in Bayardo's favour. The
American jockey had previously won the Derby
thrice in four years — on Sir James Miller's Rock
Sand in 1903, Lord Rosebery's Cicero in 1905,
Major Eustace Loder's Spearmint in 1906, and
in 1906 he had also won the Oaks on Lord
Derby's Keystone IL Notwithstanding these
victories, however, his percentage of successes
at Epsom had been singularly low in comparison
with the proportion of his victories on other
courses, notably perhaps at Newmarket.
Descending the hill towards Tattenham Corner
Sir Martin fell. He was almost in front at the
time, and what effect the accident had on the
animals who were following him can never be
precisely ascertained. Spectators who were near
the scene of the mishap varied greatly in their
accounts of it, the jockeys who rode in the race
told contradictory stories, as is much more the
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rule than the exception in such cases, and from
the neighbourhood of the winning-post it was
impossible to make out, even approximately, what
had occurred. I watched the race from the top
of the Club stand, a good place for seeing — when
other people's heads and hats do not obscure the
view. I observed the wearer of Mr. Winans's
black, white, and red hoops suddenly come to
the ground, and some of the other runners being
pulled out to avoid the fallen horse and jockey.
Maher roughly calculated that he lost sixteen
lengths. So far as I could make out Minoru
near the rails escaped interference, and was
fortunate in finding a clear course, as was also
the case with Mr. Walter Raphael's Louviers.
Minoru, it may be remarked, had been drawn
No. I on the rails, and his jockey kept him on
the inside. When once Tattenham Corner had
been rounded, however, four or five appeared to
be in it, Bayardo not far behind, and I gazed
with confidence to see him assert his old supe-
riority. The inference is that he had been
thrown out of his stride and was unable to recover
it sufficiently to do himself justice. A hundred
yards from home the race seemed to have resolved
itself into a fight between Minoru and Louviers,
though it was not quite certain that William
the Fourth or Valens might not get up, and a
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very faint hope that Bayardo might do so still
lingered. It was not to be, however. The
bearers of the Royal purple and scarlet, and of
the dark blue, scarlet hooped sleeves, flashed
oast the post as nearly as possible in a line, so
much so that no one could say who had won, or
whether, indeed, this was not a third instance of
a dead heat for the Derby since the race was
started in 1780 — the two previous ones having
been between the Duke of Rutland's Cadland and
Mr. E. Petre's The Colonel in 1828, Sir John
Willoughby's Harvester and Mr. J. Hammond's
St. Gatien in 1884. The scene of enthusiasm
which followed the hoisting of the King's number
need not be described. It is sufficient to say
that Bayardo's subsequent running appeared
most distinctly to prove that the Derby of 1909
was not won by the best horse.
Epsom, 1909.
One Hundred and Thirtieth Renewal of the Derby Stakes
of ;!o6500 (including ^^500 for nominator of winner),
with ;^400 for second and ;^200 for third, by sub-
scription of ^50 each, h. ft. or £^ if declared, with
;^I2 50 added ; for three-year-olds, entire colts and
fillies ; colts 9 st., fillies 8 st. 9 lb. About one mile
and a half. (299 entrants, viz. 15 at ;^50, 184 at
£2$, and 100 at ^5 — ;^6450.)
His Majesty's br. c. Minoru, by Cyllene,
9 St. . . . . . H. Jones i
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Mr. W. Raphael's b. c. Louviers, 9 st. G, Stern
Lord Michelham's ch. c. William the
Fourth, 9 St. .
Duke of Portland's b. c. Phaleron, 9 st.
Mr, C. S. Newton's b. c. Sandbath, 9 st.
Mr. R. Mills' br. c. Prester Jack, 9 st.
Mr. W. Raphael's b. c. Brooklands,
9 St. .
Mr. J. Buchanan's b. c. Diamond Stud,
9 St. .
Lord Carnarvon's b. c. Valens, 9 st. .
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Bayardo, 9 st.
Mr. J. Barrow's br. c. Strickland, 9 st.
Mr. H. G. Fenwick's br. c. St. Ninian,
9 St. .
Mr. J. B. Joel's ch. c. The Story, 9 st.
Mr. A. H. Ledlie's b. c. Electric Boy,
9 St. .
Mr. L. Winans's ch. c. Sir Martin, 9 st.
Betting. — 3 to i against Sir Martin, 7 to 2 Minoru,
9 to 2 Bayardo, 8 to i Valens, 9 to i Louviers, 20 to i
Phaleron and William the Fourth, 40 to i The Story, 50
to I Diamond Stud and Strickland, 66 to i each Electric
Boy, Sandbath, St. Ninian, and Prester Jack. Won by a
short head ; half a length second and third. Sir Martin
fell.
Bayardo went on to Ascot, and there his
friends had an excellent opportunity of backing
him for the Prince of Wales's Stakes, for book-
makers accepted short odds about the colt. He
had to give 21 lb. to a filly called Verne, a
daughter of Bill of Portland and La Vierge, who
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3
W. Earl
0
R. Keeble
0
W. Saxby
0
D. Blackburn
0
W. Halsey
0
F. Wootton
0
D. Maher
0
Wm. Griggs
0
C. Trigg
0
Walt. Griggs
0
W. Bray
0
J. H. Martin
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had made her first appearance in the Oaks —
never having" run as a two-year-old — and had
finished third. It seemed to be supposed that
she had a chance, but as a matter of fact she
never won a race of any kind, and the three
parts of a length by which Bayardo beat the
Duke of Portland's Cattaro might have been
largely extended.
Ascot, 1909.
Prince of Wales' Stakes of £^50 each, h. ft., with ;^iooo
added, of which second received ;^300 and third
;^200 ; for three-year-olds. New Course, about one
mile five furlongs. (63 entrants — ;£^2i5o.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 5 lb. . . . . D. Maher i
Duke of Portland's Cattaro, 8 st. 13 lb. W. Earl 2
Mr. J. B. Joel's Verne, 7 st. 12 lb. , Walt. Griggs 3
Mr. J. W. Larnach's Via, 8 st. 8 lb. . B. Lynham o
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's King
Charming, 8 st. 3 lb. . . O. Madden o
Betting. — 6 to 4 on Bayardo, 7 to 2 against Verne,
100 to 12 Cattaro. Won by three-quarters of a length ;
five lengths second and third.
Bayardo's only other engagement at Ascot
was for the St. James's Palace Stakes, and he
was not brought out, Minoru being left to
deal with a couple of opponents, as he did
without difficulty ; and it is to be suspected that
Bayardo's absence here accounted for his price
when he started ten days later for the Sandring-
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ham Foal Stakes at Sandown Park. Some people
appear rashly to have concluded that Mr. Fairie
had been unwilling to meet Minoru and that
consequently Bayardo was deteriorating, an idea
without the faintest justification.
Sandown Park, 1909.
Sandringham Foal Stakes of ;^20oo, viz. ;i^i5oo for
owner and ;^2 50 for nominator of winner, ;^ioo for
owner and £$0 for nominator of second, and £y^
for owner and £2^ for nominator of third ; for
three-year-olds ; entrance £26, ;^i i if declared by
January 5, 1 909, or ;^i if declared by October 8,
1907. One mile and a quarter. (123 entrants, viz.
32 at £26, 51 at £11, and 40 at £1 — ^^1724.)
D. Maher
J. Plant
Walt. Griggs
J. Howard
G. Stern
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 10 lb.
Mr. L. Neumann's Verney, 7 st.
His Majesty's Oakmere, 8 st. 2 lb.
Mr. J. Buchanan's Chanteur, 7 st. 3 lb
Mr. W. Raphael's Louviers, 9 st
10 lb. .
Duke of Portland's Baillet Latour, 8 st
3 lb
Mr. H. Whitworth's Venti, 8 st. 3 lb
Mr. H. M. Hartigan's Druce, 8 st.
Admiral Lambton's Fizzer, 7 st. 4 lb
Mr. W. B. Purefoy's Habana, 7 st.
Betting. — 2 to i against Louviers, 4 to i each Bayardo
and Verney, 6 to i Chanteur, 100 to 8 Oakmere. Won
by one and a half lengths ; two lengths second and third.
Druce dwelt at the start.
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C. Ringstead
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That Verney should have shared second
favouritism with Bayardo is explained by the
weights, for 38 lb. is a desperate handicap, but
it will be seen that Bayardo and Louviers carried
the same burden, and the fact that the Derby form
was wrong had not yet been recognised. A clearer
perception of the real state of the case had arisen
before the Eclipse Stakes. Your Majesty was a
Leger winner, indeed he had won four of the
five races for which he had started the previous
season, and had been favourite for the Princess of
Wales's Stakes at Newmarket, for which he had
been beaten by Dark Ronald, a colt of whom a
vast deal was thought. At Sandown the race
was never in any sort of doubt, though Bayardo's
jockey seemed to take particular pains to keep
him behind the leaders until the moment for
making his effort had arrived.
Sandown Park, 1909,
Twenty-second Renewal of the Eclipse Stakes of ;^i 0,000,
of which owner of second received ;^8oo, of third
;^II5, nominator of winner ;^5oo, and of second
;^iOO ; by subscription of £^ each for three-year-olds
if declared by October 8, 1907, or ;i^io for four-year-
olds if declared by March 26, 1907 ; if left in after
those dates a further £21 each ; if left in after
March 31, 1 908, a further ;i6^24 for three-year-olds, or
£^2 for four-year-olds ; and if left in after January 5,
1909, a further £ss ^or three-year-olds, or £s^ for
four-year-olds; with ;^2 501 added. Eclipse Stakes
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Course, one mile and a quarter. (167 entrants, viz.
29 at ;^i I 5, 15 at £6^, 26 at ^60, 42 at ;^3 i, 22
at £26, 14 at ;^io, and 19 at £$ — ;^8870.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
3 yrs., 9 St. 2 lb. . . . D. Maher i
Mr. W. Hall Walker's Royal Realm,
4 yrs., 9 St. 8 lb. . . . Wm. Griggs 2
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Santo
Strato, 4 yrs., 9 st. 1 1 lb. . O. Madden 3
Mr. J. B. Joel's Your Majesty, 4 yrs.,
10 St. . . . . . Walt. Griggs o
Betting. — 85 to 40 on Bayardo, 100 to 30 against
Your Majesty, 100 to 9 Santo Strato, 100 to 6 Royal
Realm. Won by two lengths ; length second and third.
Thenceforth Bayardo's position was estab-
lished, and how little had come to be thought
of the Derby form by the time the Hurst Park
Meeting was held in July the Duchess of York
Plate afforded unmistakable evidence.
Hurst Park, 1909.
Duchess of York Plate of ;Ci 300, viz. ;^iooo for winner,
;£^200 for second, and ;^ioo for third; for three-
year-olds ; entrance ;^2i, ;^i i if declared by March
30, 1909, or £1 if declared by March 31, 1908.
One mile and a quarter. (7 1 entrants, viz. 2 1 at
j£^2i, 37 at £11, and 13 at ;^i — ;^979.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 10 lb. . . . . D. Maher i
Lord Carnarvon's Valens, 9 st. 10 lb. . F. Wootton 2
Sir Wm. Cooper's Perola, 9 st. 7 lb. . B. Dillon 3
Betting. — 1 1 to 2 on Bayardo, 9 to i against Valens.
Won by two lengths ; bad third.
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Valens had been doing distinctly well since
the Derby. He had won the Whitsuntide Plate
at the previous Hurst Park Meeting, the Home-
bred Three- Year-Old Cup at Gatwick with odds
of lOO to 6 on him, and had been second for the
Hardwicke, he, as a three-year-old, giving the
four-year-old Primer 4 lb. and running him to
half a length.
After the Duchess of York Plate on the 24th
July, Bayardo was trained for the Leger, in which
the struggle between him and Minoru was to be
renewed. Richard Marsh was quite satisfied
with Minoru's prospects, entirely as the Derby
form had been upset ; for at Epsom Minoru had
beaten Valens scarcely a length and what had
happened when Valens met Bayardo had been
seen.
Doncaster, 1909.
St. Leger Stakes of ;^6500 for winner, ;if400 for second,
and ;^200 for third, by subscription of ;^5o each,
h. ft., or ;^5 if declared, with ;^i 7 5 5 added ; for three-
year-olds ; entire colts 9 st. and fillies 8 st. 11 lb. ;
nominator of winner received ;^50o out of stakes.
Old St. Leger Course, about i mile 6 furlongs 132
yards. (310 entrants, viz. 7 at ^50, 174 at ;6^2 5,
and 129 at ^^5 — ^6450.)
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Bayardo, by Bay
Ronald, 9 st. . . . . D. Maher i
Lord Carnarvon's b. c. Valens, 9 st. . F. Wootton 2
Mr. W. Astor's ch. c. Mirador, 9 st. . B. Dillon 3
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His Majesty's b. c. Minoru, 9 st. . H. Jones 4
Mr. J. B. Joel's ch. c. The Story, 9 st. Walt. Griggs o
Mr. H. J. King's ch. c. Carrousel, 9 st. C. Trigg o
Mr. J. Lowry'sch. c. Bachelor's Double,
9 St. . . . . -J. Thompson o
Betting. — 1 1 to 10 on Bayardo, 7 to 4 against Minoru,
100 to 8 Valens, 100 to 6 Bachelor's Double, 33 to i
The Story, 40 to i Mirador. Won by one and a half
lengths ; half length second and third.
I may add my brief comment, written at the
time in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic
News :
Marsh has seen so much of the ups and downs
of racing that he rarely ventures to be anything
like sanguine. He evidently did, however, most
firmly believe that Minoru would, indeed that he
must, win the Leger. He had never before got
the King's colt quite so well, Minoru had not for
a day been sick or sorry, had apparently come on,
stayed well, fully retained his action, everything
was in his favour. '* I know I have to meet a
good one in Bayardo," he remarked to me, "but
I can tell you that Bayardo has to meet a good
one in mine ! " Well ! Bayardo won, as I thought
he would, or rather not quite as I thought he
would, for I did think he would have to stretch him-
self out to beat Minoru, and no stretching was
required. But for the facts that I had talked for
a long time to Marsh on the morning of the race,
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knew that Minoru was at his very best, and had
the evidence of my eyes to confirm it so far as
looking goes — though Marsh's opinion was more
than ample — I should have suspected that all
could not have been well with Minoru, so badly
did he run. Not for a moment did he suggest
the possibility of success, and we gazed in amaze-
ment when for a few moments it really appeared
as if Mirador and Valens had it between them.
Could it b.e that one more 40 to i chance was to
win ? As we wondered, Maher brought up
Bayardo, and the race was over. Three strides
did it. The others could not live with him for
two seconds when it came to racing. Mr. Fairie
was escorted by a bevy of friends to the paddock,
and though naturally the failure of Minoru dis-
appointed a multitude of people, the cheers which
welcomed back Bayardo were hearty. Probably
it was Lemberg's defeat that raised doubts with
regard to his brother, for on Wednesday after-
noon, 1 1 to 8 having been laid on Bayardo the day
before, a shade of odds against him was obtain-
able, and at one time 6 to 4 was taken about
Minoru. Why the King's colt ran so badly is
inconceivable.
There may be some excuse for Minoru. He
only won a single race afterwards, and suffered
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from an affection of the eyes which not improb-
ably influenced his general health. He never
looked like winning, nor did Bayardo ever look
like being beaten. So little had the Leger taken
out of him that it was thought he might just as
well be produced to run for the Doncaster Stakes
on the Friday, and this proved a mere exercise
canter.
Doncaster, 1909.
Doncaster Stakes of ;^io each starter, with ;^500 added,
of which nominator of winner received £S'^} ^^^
owner and nominator of second each £2 5 ; for three-
year-olds ; entrance £$. One mile and a half over
Old Course. (64 entrants, 3 of which were with-
drawn on payment of fine under Rule 108 — ;^475.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 5 lb. . . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. L. Neumann's Verney, 7 st. 9 lb. , F. Wootton 2
Mr. George Faber's Great Peter, 8 st.
7 lb W. Bullock 3
Mr. Reid Walker's Duke Michael, 8 st.
9 lb. . . . . . . W. Higgs o
Belting. — 7 to I on Bayardo, 10 to i against Verney,
100 to 7 Duke Michael. Won by a length ; four lengths
second and third.
Mr. Fairie was not in the least afraid, indeed,
of keeping his colt busy, and he was sent to New-
market for the Second October Meeting, where
he had a couple of engagements, both of which
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Newmarket, 1909.
Champion Stakes of ;!^5o each, 20. ft. (to fund), with
;^iooo added, of which second received ;^i5o and
third ^50 ; for three-year-olds and upwards. A.F.
One mile and a quarter. (42 entrants — ;i^90o).
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
3 yrs., 8 St. 7 lb. (car. 8 st. 8 lb.) . D. Maher i
Mr. J. B. Joel's Dean Swift, aged, 9 st, . Walt. Griggs 2
Mr. W. Hall Walker's White Eagle,
4 yrs., 9 St. . . . . W. Saxby 3
Betting. — 9 to 4 on Bayardo, 5 to i against Dean
Swift, 1 1 to 2 White Eagle. Won by a neck ; length
second and third.
Dean Swift had proved himself something
better than a handicap horse, and it was no dis-
credit to Bayardo that he should not have
absolutely cantered away from the dual winner of
the City and Suburban. In the Lowther Stakes
on the Thursday it will be perceived how hopeless
White Eagle's chance was, for here he was try-
ing to give Bayardo 12 lb., and in the Champion
Stakes Bayardo had beaten him in receipt of just
half as much.
Newmarket, 1909.
Lowther Stakes of ;i^20 each, h. ft. (to fund), with ;^5oo
added, of which second received ^^50, third saved
stake ; for three-year-olds and upwards. Last
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one mile and three-quarters of Cesarewitch Course.
(37 entrants — ^470.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, 3
yrs., 9 St. 7 lb. . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. W. Hall Walker's White Eagle, 4 yrs.,
10 St. 5 lb. . . . . W. Saxby 2
Capt. Laing's Rousay, 5 yrs., 8 st. i 3 lb. . R. Keeble 3
Betting. — 100 to 9 on Bayardo, 100 to 8 against
White Eagle. Won by one and a half lengths ; bad
third.
That Bayardo had been so liberally engaged
proved fortunate. He was in eighteen races as
a three-year-old, and started for no fewer than
thirteen of them. On the 21st of October he
reappeared at Sandown on the Eclipse Stakes
course for the Sandown Foal Stakes, his third
essay, it will be perceived, over this mile and a
quarter, he having taken the Sandringham Foal
Stakes at the Summer Meeting as recorded, and
he won very easily, though the verdict was the
length and a half. That seemed to be the dis-
tance which Maher usually thought sufficient.
It was by a length and a half that he had won
the Lowther Stakes, much about the same dis-
tance in the Doncaster Stakes, a length and a
half again in the Leger, rather more — two lengths
— in the Duchess of York Plate and in the Eclipse,
the familiar length and a half again in the San-
dringham Foal Stakes.
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Sandown Park, 1909.
Sandown Foal Stakes of ;i^2000, viz. ;^I500 for owner
and ;i^2 5o for nominator of winner, ;(^ioo for owner
and ;^5o for nominator of second, and ;^75 for
owner and £2$ for nominator of third, for three-
year-olds ; entrants £26, ;^i i if declared by January
5, 1909, or ;^i if declared by October 8, 1907 ; of
surplus, viz. £iig, second received two- thirds and
third the remainder ; Eclipse Stakes Course, one
mile and a quarter. (184 entrants, viz. 5 i at £26,
66 at ;^ii, and 6y at £1 — £1^24).
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
9 St. 7 lb. . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. L. Neumann's Shikaree, 7 st. 9 lb. . F. Wootton 2
Mr. Reid Walker's Legatee, 7 st. . . S. Wootton 3
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's King Charm-
ing, 8 St. 3 lb. . . . . O. Madden o
Betting. — 100 to 7 on Bayardo, 20 to i against
Shikaree, 25 to i King Charming, 66 to i Legatee.
Won by a length ; one and a half lengths second and
third.
Bayardo returned to Newmarket for the
Houghton Meeting, and as I recollect behaved
there as if he were getting rather tired of the
place, being unwilling to go to the post for the
Limekiln Stakes, not knowing what a very easy
task was before him, and Maher had to take him
round at the back of the stands.
Newmarket, 1909.
Limekiln Stakes of £2^ each, 10 ft. (to fund), with ;£"5oo
added, of which second received ;iCioo ; for three-
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year-olds and upwards, A.F. One mile and a
quarter. (42 entrants — £42^).
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
3 yrs., 9 St. 8 lb. . . . D. Maher i
Mr. H. P. Whitney's Perseus II, 3 yrs.,
8 St. 13 lb J. H. Martin 2
Betting. — 33 to i on Bayardo. Won by fifteen
lengths.
He wound up the season at Liverpool.
Liverpool, 1909.
Liverpool St. Leger of £yoo, of which second received
£SO\ for three-year-olds. Entrance ;^20 ; £it, if
declared by January 5, 1909, or ;^3 if declared by
March 31, 1908. One mile and a half. (32 entrants,
viz. 16 at ;^20, 10 at £il, and 6 at £1 — ;^63o).
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, i o st. D, Maher i
Mr. Reid Walker's King Amyntas, 8 st.
4 lb. . . . . . . W. Higgs 2
Betting. — 66 to i on Bayardo. Won by half a
length.
His season's work brought in ;^ 24, 797. One
result of it was to raise Mr. Fairie to the first
place in the list of winning owners, with ;^37, 7 19
to his credit, which was considerably more than
twice as much as the total of his immediate fol-
lower, the Duke of Portland, with ^^ 15, 064; and
another effect was to elevate Bay Ronald to the
second position in the table of winning sires. .
This was headed by Cyllene with ;{^35,55o. Bay
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Ronald following with ^^34,361. Bayardo's figures
have been given : besides the Princess of Wales's
Stakes Dark Ronald won a couple of other races,
the three yielding ^7104.
Throughout the winter Bayardo went on in
the right way, his owner's objective being the
Ascot Cup. He was ready, however, by the
Craven Meeting, and fulfilled his engagement in
the Fiftieth Newmarket Biennial. It was hardly
supposed to be a race, but it will be seen that
the jockey was contented to win by a sufficient,
though not extensive, margin.
Newmarket, 1910.
Second Year of Fiftieth Newmarket Biennial Stakes of
£2$ each, 10 ft. for acceptors, with ;^5oo added, of
which second received 10 per cent, and third 5 per
cent. ; for four-year-olds ; entrance £S} o^^ly ft. if
declared ; last one mile and a half of Cesarewitch
Course. (22 entrants, ft. declared for 7 — £S73) lOs.).
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
10 St. . . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. George Faber's Great Peter, 9 st. . B. Dillon 2
Duke of Portland's Cattaro, 9 st. . . W. Earl 3
Mr. H. G. Fenwick's Tocher, 8 st. . J. H. Martin o
Betting. — 100 to 9 on Bayardo, 100 to 7 against
Cattaro. Won by three-quarters length ; six lengths
second and third.
A consequence of this race was to make
people imagine that Great Peter must be a better
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horse than he was in fact, and a good deal of
money was therefore lost on him, for he never
won afterwards under Jockey Club Rules, though
when put to jumping he was fairly successful
in carrying off minor stakes.
Bayardo went on to Chester to run for the
Vase, which during the last few years has usually
attracted a few good animals, and here there was
a sensational finish.
Chester, 1910.
Chester Vase of ;;^2000 (a Vase value i^ioo and remain-
der in specie), of which owner of second received
;^200 and of third £100; nominator of winner
;^I2 5, of second ^^50, and of third £2$ ; by sub-
scription of ;£i for three-year-olds or £2 for four-
year-olds ; if left in after October 13,1 908, a further
;^I0 for three-year-olds ; if left in after March 31,
1908, a further ;^io for four-year-olds; if left in
after March 30, 1909, a further ;^io for each ; and
if left in after January 4, 1910, a further £8 for
each ; with ;^293 added. One mile and a half.
(149 entrants, viz. 12 at £30, 10 at ;£29, 12 at
^1^22, 12 at £21, 26 at £12, 12 at j^ii, 32 at £2,
and 33 at £\ — ;^I595-)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 9 lb D. Maher i
Lord Michelham's William the Fourth, 4
yrs., 9 St. 7 lb. . . . . B. Dillon 2
Mr. D. M'Calmont's Malpas, 3 yrs., 6 st.
13 lb. . . . . . .J. Evans 3
Mr. Reid Walker's Duke Michael, 4 yrs.,
8 St. 4 lb. . . ... . W. Higgs o
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Mr. L. de Rothschild's Santa Fina, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 6 lb H. Watts o
Duke of Westminster's Kalvemor, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 4 lb. . . . . . F. Fox o
Betting. — 5 to i on Bayardo, 10 to i against William
the Fourth, 100 to 6 Santa Fina. Won by a head; three-
quarters length second and third.
William the Fourth had not been out since
the previous Ascot, when he won the Ascot
Derby from three moderate opponents. He
had, however, been doing well under the charge
of Mr. Gwyn Saunders-Davies at Michel Grove,
and if the quotation of the betting is accurate
some people were willing to take 10 to i against
him, which seemed a rash proceeding before the
start. William the Fourth only ran once after-
wards, and during the three seasons he was in
training only won the single race at Ascot. Of
course, seeing how near he was in the Derby,
his friends protested that he "ought to have won "
it. Such protestations are common, though at
the same time it must be admitted that of late
years the Derby has on several occasions been
won by horses who could not have been the best
in the race.
Bayardo, so far from frightening away rivals
in the Gold Cup, was one of the largest field
which had ever started for that trophy since the
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contest for it was originated in 1807. It is very
seldom in its history that the starters have run
into double figures. The Marquis of Hastings'
Lecturer was one of ten in 1867, and it was not
until 1902, William the Third's year, when eleven
went to the post, that double figures were again
reached. The reason is obvious : so very few
horses have any pretensions to win, and their
owners do not consider it worth while to submit
them to the ordeal of the necessarily severe pre-
paration for a hopeless task.
In 1910, however, Bayardo was one of a field
of thirteen. In the two previous years there
had been half a dozen starters, and there was
the same number the year following. Consider-
ing Bayardo's record the ring seems to have been
extraordinary liberal in laying 7 to 4 against him.
This was due to the fact that doubts must always
exist as to the ability of a horse to last two miles
and a half until he has proved his ability to do
so, though Alec Taylor, who had charge of
Bayardo, has been strikingly successful in training
the winners of long-distance races — as his father
was before him — and his confidence in the son
of Bay Ronald was supreme. That Mr. Louis
Winans's Sir Martin should have been backed at
9 to 2 must be considered strange, for Joseph
Cannon did not appear to be entirely satisfied
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that the American colt would stay, as he proved
quite unable to do, and I suspect that he never
recovered from the effect of his exertions. It is
rather the exception for an American-bred horse
to stay. Sir Martin, however, had been tried,
in the opinion of his experienced trainer, good
enough to win the Derby, and that there was no
mistake about the trial was sufficiently demon-
strated by the fact of his having had little diffi-
culty in beating so good a horse as Bachelor's
Double, to say nothing of Louviers who had
lost the Derby by only a head, in the Coronation
Cup at Epsom over the Derby course. Louviers
finished nearly six lengths behind Sir Martin in
the Epsom race, Batchelor's Double beaten a
length and a half.
Few years pass in which some French owners
do not send over in the hope of winning the Gold
Cup, and their efforts have on various occasions
been successful — with Maxim II in 1903, Elf II
in 1898, Verneuil in 1878, Boiard in 1874, Henry
in 1872, Mortemer in 1871, and Gladiateur in 1866.
Two French horses arrived to run against Bayardo,
one with the disagreeable name of Sea Sick II, a
colt who had much distinguished himself in his
own country, and Aveu, of whom much less was
thought. Sea Sick II, a son of Elf II whose name
has just been mentioned, had won half a dozen
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races in France in eight attempts as a three-year-
old, and had been second for the valuable Prix
du President de la Republique, worth nearly
;^50oo. He was a great stayer. One of his suc-
cesses had been in the Prix de Longchamps, two
miles and a furlong, another in the Prix de
Chantilly over a slightly longer course, a third,
the Prix Gladiateur, a few yards short of four
miles. That he had retained his form was shown
by a couple of victories gained shortly before his
visit to Ascot, and it may be noted that on his
return to France, in his first essay there, he took
the Prix de Longchamps for the second time.
He was, indeed, strongly fancied for the Cup at
Ascot.
Ascot, 19 10.
Gold Cup, value ^500, with ;^3 500 in specie, added to a
Sweepstakes of ;^20 each, h. ft., of which second
received £yoo and third ;^300 ; for entire colts and
fillies, three years old and upwards. Two miles and
a half, starting at the Cup Post and going once round.
(59 entrants — ^^3700.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
4 yrs., 9 St. . . . D. Maher i
Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt's Sea Sick II,
5 yrs., 9 St. 4 lb. . . . F. O'Neill 2
Mr. W. W. Bailey's Bachelor's Double,
4 yrs., 9 St. . . . . H. Randall 3
Mr. J. B. Joel's Pure Gem, 6 yrs., 9 st. 41b. Walt. Griggs o
Lord Michelham's Southanan, 6 yrs.,
9 St. 4 lb. . . . . . H. Stokes o
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Mr. W. Hall Walker's Royal Realm
5 yrs., 9 St. 4 lb.
Mr. A. Aumont's Aveu, 4 yrs., 9 st.
Mr. C. S. Donnelly's Buckwheat, 4 yrs.
9 St.
Mr. H. J. King's Carrousel, 4 yrs., 9 st
Lord Michelham's William the Fourth
4 yrs., 9 St. .
Mr. L. Winans's Sir Martin, 4 yrs., 9 st
Mr. Carl Meyer's Apache, 3 yrs., 7 st
7 lb. (car. 7 St. 8 lb.) .
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Bronzino, 3
yrs., 7 St. 7 lb. .
Wm. Griggs
C. Childs
W. Saxby
H. Jones
B. Dillon
J. H. Martin
C. Trigg
F. Fox
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Bayardo, 9 to 2 Sir Martin,
6 to I Sea Sick II, 7 to i Bachelor's Double, 100 to 9
William the Fourth, 100 to 7 Buckwheat, 100 to 6 Avue,
25 to I each Apache and Bronzino. Won by four lengths ;
head second and third.
Bayardo's victory was gained in the most
brilliant and convincing fashion. When Maher
asked him to leave his horses he came to the
front and cantered home without the semblance
of effort. This finish for the Ascot Cup dwells
in the memory, and, great as Bayardo's reputa-
tion was, the race vastly raised and strengthened
it. Only a great horse could win as he did.
I may perhaps be allowed to reproduce the
description I wrote of the event at the time :
I am inclined to fancy that Bayardo astonished
everybody last week. Of course, Mr. Fairie has
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always had a tremendous opinion of his horse,
and Alec Taylor has seen him every day for years
past. They must have known something like
what he was ; but nothing" that happens on a
horse's own training ground can demonstrate just
what he will do in the course of a race for the
Ascot Cup against a good representative field.
That is the point — the "good representative
field." At home perhaps the Cup horse gallops
with a couple of others, and there is something
to jump in and lead him for the last mile. You
never get the conditions in private that you get
in public, and that is why I doubt whether any-
body could be confident Bayardo had it in him to
give the electrifying exhibition which will make
his victory memorable. Why Maher has ridden
him in the style with which we were familiar
before Ascot it is utterly impossible to guess.
On the morning of the Cup Day an owner who
is among the very best judges of horses and
racing that I ever met, and who, moreover,
happens to be particularly well acquainted with
the Manton stable, replied to my question whether
he intended to back Bayardo with an unhesitating
negative, and he added, '*I will never back a
horse that is not genuine for an Ascot Cup!"
That was the impression of Bayardo that he
entertained. It may be that all Maher's wins on
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Bayardo have been miracles of unexampled genius
in the way of jockeyship. The effect they have
had is that just indicated. He has always striven
to keep the colt behind others, and the well-nigh
universally accepted explanation was that he
"did not want to let Bayardo see what he had to
do." There can be no sort of doubt that if any
accident had prevented Bayardo from running*
for the Cup he would have left the Turf under a
strong suspicion of being a rogue, or at least of
having a decided tendency to roguishness, and
this because of the way in which Maher has been
pleased to ride him.
Now we all know how utterly unjust such a
suspicion would be. No horse that ever trod on
racing plates could have given a more gallant
and impressive exhibition. The days have long
since passed when French horses were lightly
esteemed, and a particularly accomplished trainer's
opinion with regard to Sea Sick H was that he
would prove invincible. He stays, he has speed,
he had never been so well in his life. He was
genuine, and in France they knew, or thought
they knew, all about Bayardo's suspected inclina-
tion to turn it up if he saw a long stretch of
galloping ground in front of him. It has now
been proved that he has not this inclination ; but
why on earth has Maher apparently been so
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careful to persuade us that he has had ? I am
quite certain that the suspicion would have influ-
enced his stud prospects. However, there was
Sea Sick to beat, and was there not also Sir
Martin ? I have often commented on the fact
that American horses do not stay. That is now
a commonplace. But Americans who knew most
about Sir Martin were persuaded that he was an
exception. Many people, on the ground that
American horses do not stay, would not back
him for the Coronation Cup. He won over that
mile and a half course in a canter, which certainly
suggested that he could have gone on a much
longer way. Of course, it is very easy to declare
that a son of Ogden was sure not to last over the
Ascot Cup course ; but this absurdly obvious cir-
cumstance was not realised till everyone had seen
Sir Martin tailed off. Doubtlessa mile and ahalf
at Epsom and two miles and a half at Ascot are
different things ; nevertheless, in the face of
Bayardo and of Sea Sick, a great many men, not
necessarily all fools, took 4 to i about Sir Martin ;
and a good many writers about racing, not con-
genital idiots, expounded the opinion that his
chance was a great one. A rank non-stayer
would not have won the Coronation Cup without
an effort.
Sir Martin at home had galloped the Cup
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distance unfalteringly ; but that is the point dis-
cussed above — to do this at home is one thing,
to do it in a veritable Cup race is another.
Bachelor's Double, on the other hand, had been
trained for the Hunt Cup mile, and simply for this
reason it was hard to imagine that he could stay
sufficiently well to be dangerous. If he should
be trained for the Gold Cup next year, it is far
from unlikely that he may win it ; but it would
require an equine marvel to carry off this Cup
without a preparation, and it is most astonishing
that he should have got where he did. Nobody
out of the William the Fourth stable credited
him with being nearly good enough, though his
owner's refusal to pick up the Triennial on Tues-
day, which the colt could not have missed,
betokened faith. It is not the first time that the
substance has been lost for the sake of the
shadow. Men who, as it now appears, should
have been wiser, backed Buckwheat both ways.
He was '' a better horse than people thought," I
was assured. Beyond these it seemed quite need-
less to look. Pure Gem could not possibly be
regarded as a Cup horse, nor could Royal Realm,
though it is open to those with a fancy for support-
ing outsiders to add, ''Nor could Bomba last
year, or Throwaway, who was better than Bomba,
surely, a few years before." This would be a
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retort rather difficult to answer effectively ; for if
you replied, "That sort of thing is not likely to
happen again," there was the answer, " It was
not in the least likely to happen last year ; only
it did!"
It is rather quaint to see a horse conscientiously
making running for a stable companion to whom
the pacemaker's efforts are not of the remotest
service. Southanan performed this duty for
William the Fourth, who could not take the least
advantage of it ; and it may be incidentally re-
marked that placing William the Fourth to win
races will not be easy, for he is likely to find
something to beat him in the Cups, and as for a
handicap, his having run Bayardo to a head at
2 lb. will ensure him plenty of poundage. I do
not know if it is true that he has broken down.
Sea Sick's jockey was not afraid to make use of
him, and when Southanan retired, having had
enough of it, the French horse went on. Unless
Bayardo could really stay (my friend the good
judge mentioned above finally backed him be-
cause he looked so beautiful), the race must go
to France; O'Neill was bent on running them
out of it if it was to be done ; and meantime,
where were Bayardo and Sir Martin ? Maher
had been much nearer last than first for half the
journey, and it was not till about a mile from
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home that somebody near me remarked, '* Bay-
ardo is g^oing up a bit." He had improved his
position and was fifth or sixth — which seems an
odd thing- to write of a race for an Ascot Cup,
the average number of runners being about four.
Then, some six furlongs from home, Bayardo
shot out in a fashion which can only be described
as phenomenal. Maher had won in half a dozen
strides. Of course, there was a good distance
still to go, but practically the race was over.
Bayardo led round the bend, sweeping on with
effortless ease. Sea Sick was by no means done
with. He still galloped steadily on without the
least sign of flagging ; Bachelor's Double evoked
profound amazement by sticking resolutely to the
Frenchman, and for the matter of that we had seen
on Wednesday what speed the Irishman possessed.
But their endeavours to live with Bayardo
were really absurd. It had been asked whether
he could stay. Here he was, after going over
two miles in time which misses the Cup record
by the fraction of a second, striding out as freely
and freshly as if the race were just beginning.
But oh ! why has Maher done such cruel injus-
tice to the horse and allowed such a totally false
view of him to gain currency? His refusals to
go to the post at Newmarket, more than once
obliging his jockey to take him round by the
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back of the stands, were put down to an idea
that he "did not like racing." Last year we
saw how Maher jammed him into the heels of
other horses. He looked so magnificent at Ascot
that it seemed folly to back anything else to beat
him, and I had previously expressed a conviction
that he would win for reasons which I gave — a
defeat would do him much more harm than a
victory (an ordinary win, not such a splendid
achievement as we witnessed) would do him
good, and he would never be allowed to start
unless no doubt were felt about his being at his
best and certainly able to get the course. That
it is excessively difficult to make sure of this last
fact at home I have admitted ; but in that respect
Alec Taylor seems to get at the truth as his father
did before him. The record of Manton in long-
distance races has been extraordinarily good,
and this season the Chester Cup, Ascot Stakes,
the Northumberland Plate, and above all the
Gold Cup, have to be added to the long list.
It is certain that Bayardo is now regarded in a
way vastly different from that which obtained
before Ascot. " I didn't quite like the style in
which he won his race at Newmarket," some one
said to me in the paddock on Thursday, just
before the Cup. "Why, surely he beat Great
Peter easily enough ? " I replied ; and his answer
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was a hesitating' " Yes — I suppose he did."
The Chester race did want a deal of explaining
away. Every one will now most readily accord
Bayardo a place among the very best known in
the history of the Turf.
So I wrote when the impression was fresh on
me, and now to resume once more.
Bayardo's next engagement was in the Dul-
lingham Plate at the Newmarket Second July
Meeting, and Mr. Fairie thought that he might
as well annex it, as he did with sufficient ease.
Newmarket, 1910.
DuLLiNGHAM Plate of ;^iooo, of which sccond received
.^100 and third £$0 ; by subscription of ;^20, or ;^5
if declared, with ;^S I 5 added ; for three-year-olds and
upwards. Suffolk Stakes Course, one mile and a half.
(37 entrants, viz. 20 at ;^20 and 17 at ;^5 — ;!{^830.)
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, by Bay Ronald,
4 yrs., 10 St. 8 lb. . . . D. Maher i
Duke of Portland's The Spaniard, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 1 2 lb. . . . C. Trigg 2
Mr. W. Hall Walker's Royal Realm,
5 yrs., 10 St. I lb. . . . Wm. Griggs 3
Mr. H. S. Gray's Gog, 3 yrs., 8 st. i lb. F. Wells o
Mr. P. Nelke's Lagos, 5 yrs., 10 st. 6 lb. B. Dillon o
Mr. C. S. Donnelly's Buckwheat, 4 yrs.,
10 St. 4 lb. . . . . W. Saxby o
Betting. — 8 to i on Bayardo, 100 to 6 against Royal
Realm, 20 to i The Spaniard, 50 to i each Lagos and
Buckwheat, 500 to i Gog. Won by a length ; five lengths
second and third.
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He was not sent to Liverpool for the Atlantic
Stakes in which he had been engaged, it being
settled that his next race should be the Good-
wood Cup ; and this was a tragedy. It is natural
that the history of racing should contain few
instances of horses who have been beaten with
odds of 20 to I on them. In such a case, as a
matter of course, the affair looks an absolutely
foregone conclusion ; on the other hand, what is
called the "glorious uncertainty" of racing at
times leads to the most amazing results, as it
did here.
Goodwood, 1910.
Goodwood Cup of ;^iooo (50 gs. of which was in plate),
with a Sweepstakes of ;^20 each, h. ft. (to fund) ;
second received i^200 and third ;^ioo out of the
stakes ; for three-year-olds and upwards. Two and
a half miles. (33 entrants — jCy 40.) By permission
of the Stewards of the Jockey Club the starting gate
was dispensed with for this race.
Mr. H. E. Beddington's Magic, by
Martagon, 3 yrs., 7 st. 2 lb. . F. Rickaby, jun. i
Mr. Fairie's Bayardo, 4 yrs., 9 st.
10 lb D. Maher 2
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Bud, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 4 lb. . F. Fox 3
Betting. — 20 to i on Bayardo, 20 to i against Magic.
Won by a neck ; bad third.
It seemed as if there could be no occasion for
Bayardo to gallop. Magic had not run as a two-
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year-old and as a three had done little. He had,
indeed, finished second, beaten only a head, for
the Wood Ditton Stakes at the Newmarket
Craven Meeting ; but the winner, a moderate
animal, Rock Lane, was giving him 5 lb. In
the Gold Vase at Ascot he had by no means
distinguished himself, and the idea that he had
the faintest chance of beating Bayardo appeared
altogether too preposterous to be for a moment
entertained. Mr. Beddington had told me that
he was not altogether without hope, but as for
this, an owner is frequently apt wildly to exag-
gerate the capacity of his horse. Weight-for-age
over two miles and five furlongs in July is barely
20 lb. : at two miles it is 18 lb., at three miles
21 lb. Here it will be seen Magic was in receipt
of 36 lb., but this in no way altered the prac-
tically universal opinion as to the chance of the
younger colt. After the race it occurred to some
of the critics that Bayardo was not looking
himself; before the start this opinion was not
heard. Magic never won afterwards, and truly
his career was a strange one — to have taken a
single race and that from Bayardo ! It was the
last appearance of Mr. Fairie's champion, a
summary of whose achievements may be given.
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As A Two- Year-Old.
The New Stakes, Ascot
The National Breeders' Produce Stakes,
Sandown ....
The Richmond Stakes, Goodwood .
The Buckenham Stakes, Newmarket
The Rous Memorial Stakes .
The Middle Park Plate
The Dewhurst Plate .
. ;^i,8i7
10
0
t
. 4,357
0
0
652
0
0
1,500
0
0
730
0
0
. 2,505
0
0
• 1,477
0
0
.^13,038
10
0
As A Three-Year-Old.
The Two Thousand Guineas . . £
The Derby .....
The Prince of Wales's Stakes, Ascot
The Sandringham Foal Stakes, Sandown
The Eclipse Stakes ....
The Duchess of York Plate, Hurst Park
The St. Leger .....
The Doncaster Stakes
The Champion Stakes, Newmarket
The Lowther Stakes ....
The Sandown Foal Stakes .
The Limekiln Stakes ....
The Liverpool St. Leger
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. 2,150
0
0
1,724
0
0
8,870
0
0
979
0
0
. 6,450
0
0
475
0
0
900
0
0
470
0
0
. 1,724
0
0
425
0
0
630
0
0
^24,797
0
0
AND HER OFFSPRING
As A Four-Year-Oli
3.
The Goodwood Cup
. £
. .
The Newmarket Biennial
573
10
0
The Chester Vase
• 1,595
0
0
The Ascot Cup ....
• 3»7oo
0
0
The Dullingham Plate .
830
0
0
;^6,698 10 o
The total of Bayardo's winnings therefore
amounted to ;{^44,534.
What a horse accumulates in stakes is no test
of his merits. There are three who have exceeded
Bayardo's aggregate — the late Colonel Harry
M'Calmont's Isinglass is first with ^57,185,
the Duke of Portland's Donovan follows with
^54,935, and then comes the late Sir James
Miller's Rock Sand with ^45,618. It is im-
possible to judge the relative value of the vic-
tories of horses who never came together directly
or collaterally, who were separated from each
other by periods of years. I have always strongly
entertained the idea that Bayardo was certainly
a far better animal than Rock Sand, basing the
conviction to a great extent on the fact that Rock
Sand showed himself a long way inferior to
Sceptre and to Ard Patrick. Suggestions have
been made to explain Bayardo's defeats in the
Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby. As
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regards the Goodwood Cup, his third failure in
the twenty-five races for which he started, it can
only be said that the form was manifestly alto-
gether wrong.
When Bayardo was at the height of his fame
I asked Mr. Fairie one day how he came to name
the horse, and he kindly sent me the explanation
which I have thought it interesting to reproduce
in facsimile.
ii8
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A ^ ^^yyi,r^L^y /tX: ^^ ^^4^,
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AND HER OFFSPRING
CHAPTER IV
LEMBERG
In the year 1906 Galicia was sent to Cyllene,
then standing at a fee of 100 guineas, which was
increased to 300 guineas the following year, and
the result was Lemberg, bay like his half-brother,
a decidedly handsome colt when later on his
make and shape developed, but perhaps some-
what deficient in the peculiarly high quality
which distinguished Bayardo. It was early
ascertained that Lemberg could gallop. He was
tried on the 8th June as follows :
Lemberg, 2 yrs., 8 st. 8 lb. . . . Clark i
Benwhat, 4 yrs., 8 st. 3 lb. . . . Hulse 2
Seedcake, 4 yrs., 8 st. 8 lb. . . . Toon 3
Maid of Corinth, 2 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . . Ault o
Won easily by a length and a half; three lengths
between second and third.
Here, it will be perceived again, the trial was
not a high one. Sir William Bass's Benwhat
was a bad animal. I think he never won more
than a single little j^ioo race. One? he was
second to an extremely moderate three-year-old
who gave him 32 lb. and a year. Seedcake had
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failed to win anything since he tried Bayardo
twelve months previously. Maid of Corinth, the
superbly bred daughter of Cyllene and Sceptre,
had not run : she was to win two races later and
to be twice second.
Fortunately a programme had been mapped
out for Lemberg to a great extent following the
lines along which the elder had travelled to
fame. His first appearance was made in the New
Stakes at Ascot, no more than 2 to i being
offered against him in a field of twelve ; against
Bayardo, as we have seen, 7 to i was laid. A
son of Sundridge, not at the time named, after-
wards called Sunningdale, running as the Sweet
Story colt, was almost in equal demand with
Lemberg, the returned odds being 5 to 2. The
idea that there was anything like equality be-
tween them was speedily dispelled ; here Sunning-
dale finished third, four lengths behind Catrail,
one of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's breeding, by
St. Frusquin — Catkin, who never rose to the first
rank.
Ascot, 1909.
New Stakes of ;^io each, with ;^iooo added, of which
second received 10 per cent, and third 5 per cent.;
for two-year-olds. Five furlongs. (138 entrants —
;^20I3.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 8 st,
10 lb B. Dillon i
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Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Catrail,
8 St. I o lb.
Mr. J. B. Joel's ch. c by Sundridge —
Sweet Story, 8 st. lo lb. .
Sir E. Cassel's Conte d'Hoffmann,
8 St. 10 lb.
Lord Derby's Decision, 8 st. lo lb.
Mr. Sol Joel's Sunder, 8 st. lo lb.
Mr. J. W. Larnach's ch. c. by Jeddah
Game Hen, 8 st. lo lb.
Mr. D. M'Calmont's Counterpoise, 8 st
lo lb
Mr. Barclay Walker's Lawrenny, 8 st
10 lb
Lord Ebury's Dumella, 8 st. lo lb.
Mr. E. de St. Alary's Photime, 8 st
7 lb
Mr. W. Hall Walker's Lily Rose, 8 st
7 lb
O. Madden
Walt. Griggs 3
W. Halsey
D. Maher
F. Wootton
A. Templeman o
S. Donoghue o
C. Heckford
H. Randall
Wm. Griggs o
B. Lynham o
Betting. — 2 to i against Lemberg, 5 to 2 Sweet
Story c, 6 to I Decision, 10 to i Sunder, 100 to 9
Lawrenny. Won by one and a half lengths ; four lengths
second and third. Decision whipped round when the
barrier went up.
It will be seen that Lemberg won by a length
and a half, precisely as Bayardo had done, and
no sort of doubt existed that Mr. Fairie had
found another good one. It seems strange that
Lemberg should have been omitted from the
National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown.
For this Mr. Fairie had only nominated one,
King Midas, a son of Persimmon and Bona
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Dea, who was never more than a useful animal.
Lemberg was in the Chesterfield Stakes, how-
ever, at the Newmarket Second July, and for
that he ran.
Newmarket, 1909.
Chesterfield Stakes of £t,0 each, 20 ft., of which
second received ;^ioo, third saved stake; for two-
year-olds. Chesterfield Course, last five furlongs of
B.M. (43 entrants — -^750.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 9 st.
3 lb. . . . .
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Catrail, 8 st.
10 lb.
Mr. A. F. Basset's Prince Rupert, 9 st. 3 lb
Mr. L. Neumann's Gallifet, 8 st. 10 lb.
Lady de Bathe's Jeton, 8 st. 10 lb. .
Betting. — 2 to i on Lemberg, 4 to i against Prince
Rupert, 6 to i Catrail. Won by two lengths ; one and
a half lengths second and third.
That 2 to I was laid on Lemberg" affords
evidence of the manner in which he had won at
Ascot. Neither he nor Catrail had been out
again prior to this Newmarket race, but though
Catrail was receiving 7 lb. he was not supposed to
have anything like a real chance. Mr. A. F.
Basset's Prince Rupert was a colt of some pre-
tensions. He had won the July Stakes at the
previous Newmarket Meeting, and intermediately
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D. Maher
I
0. Madden
2
W. Saxby
3
W. Smith
0
F. Fox
0
AND HER OFFSPRING
the Champagne Stakes at the Bibury Club Meet-
ing at Salisbury.
Lemberg went to Goodwood as his brother had
done, running, however, for the Rous Memorial
instead of for the Richmond Stakes. When odds
of 6 to I are laid on a horse every one under-
stands what it means.
Goodwood, 1909.
Rous Memorial Stakes of i^20 each, h. ft. for acceptors,
with ;^50o added for owner and i^ioo for nomi-
nator of winner ; second received ;^ioo out of
stakes ; for two-year-olds ; entrance ;^5, only ft. if
declared, these fts. being added to the Rous Memorial
Fund. T.Y.C., six furlongs. (79 entrants, ft.
declared for 18 — £112$.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 9 st.
6 lb D. Maher i
Mr. W. Hall Walker's Lily Rose, 8 st.
2 lb. (car. 8 st. 3 lb.) . . B. Lynham 2
Mr. Ernest Dresden's Gaily Bawn,
8 St. 2 lb. . . . . Walt. Griggs 3
Captain Forester's b. c. by Cupbearer —
Lady Drake, 8 st. 5 lb. . . W. Saxby o
Betting. — 6 to i on Lemberg, 7 to i against Gaily
Bawn. Won by three lengths ; head second and third.
Gaily Bawn, the only one whose success was
conceived possible, was not altogether without
form. She had won her two previous races, the
second of them, the Plantation Plate at New-
market, in a field of twenty-three, and Colonel
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Hall Walker's Lily Rose, to whom it will be seen
Lemberg was giving a stone more than weight-
for-age, was an animal of some capacity, for on
the occasion of her next outing she won the
Gimcrack Stakes, a race for which Mr. Fairie is
not accustomed to enter, possibly — though as to
this I am only guessing — from a disinclination to
undertake a penalty of success, the making of a
speech at the annual dinner of the Gimcrack
Club.
Lemberg was next sent to Doncaster for the
Champagne Stakes, and the betting on this race
tends again to prove what was thought of him.
All his three opponents were good winners. Lord
Rosebery's Neil Gow, indeed, had taken the
National Breeders' Produce Stakes at Sandown
after getting badly away in easy fashion by four
lengths ; Major Eustace Loder's Admiral Hawke,
an own brother to the famous Pretty Polly, had
carried off the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket
and the Lavant at Goodwood ; Mr. H. P.
Whitney's Whisk Broom, accepted as one of the
best colts who has ever come from America,
had easily secured the Prince of Wales's Plate at
York. That odds of 15 to 8 should have been
laid on Lemberg against such opponents is
certainly a testimony to character ; but this was to
be his one failure in his first season.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
Doncaster, 1909.'
Champagne Stakes of £^0 each, 20 ft., or ;^5 (to fund) if
declared, with ;^iooo added, of which second received
;^ioo and third -^50 ; for two-year-olds. Red
House in, 5 furlongs 152 yards. (114 entrants,
ft. declared for 78 — ^^"1580.)
Lord Rosebery's Neil Gow, by Marco
9 St.
Major Eustace Loder's Admiral Hawke
9 St.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 9 st.
Mr. H. P. Whitney's Whisk Broom, 9 st
D. Maher i
B. Dillon 2
H. Jones 3
J. H. Martin o
Betting. — i 5 to 8 on Lemberg, 6 to i against Admiral
Hawke and Neil Gow, 7 to i Whisk Broom. Won by
one and a half lengths ; length second and third.
It was afterwards demonstrated that between
Lemberg and Neil Gow there was practically
nothing- to choose ; here Lord Rosebery's colt
beat him by two lengths and a half, form which
was unquestionably wrong, and what added
stronger proof of this was the position of Admiral
Hawke, whom no one would rank with the son
of Galicia. Lemberg's last three races were pre-
cisely the same as those which Bayardo had
taken. In the Rous Memorial at the Newmarket
First October, Bayardo had met one altogether
unworthy antagonist ; Lemberg was not to have
quite so easy a task.
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Newmarket, 1909.
Rous Memorial Stakes of ^^15 each, 10 ft. for acceptors,
with £S^'^ added for owner and ;^iOO for nominator
of winner ; for two-year-olds ; second received £$0
out of stakes ; entrance £$, only ft. if declared. Rous
Course, five furlongs. (59 entrants, ft. declared for
23 — ^^920.) The Rous Memorial Fund received 20
per cent, of the value of the race, after calculating
under Rule 117.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 9 st.
3 lb
Lord Durham's Rochester, 8 st. 10 lb. .
Mr. P. Nelke's Yellow Slave, 8 st.
1 1 lb
Mr. J. H. Houldsworth's Cedrus, 8 st.
10 lb
Mr. L. Neumann's GalHfet, 8 st. 10 lb.
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Catrail, 8 st.
10 lb
Betting. — 2 to i on Lemberg, 3 to i against Yellow
Slave, 100 to 7 Catrail. Won by a neck ; three lengths
second and third.
Lord Durham's Rochester, a son of Rock
Sand and Caparison, had been talked about for
some time previously, though the betting does
not indicate any fancy for him, notwithstanding
that Maher was riding. Mr. Nelke's Yellow
Slave had shown herself a smart filly, having
won four of the six races for which she had been
out and finished second in the other two ; but
she gave Lemberg no trouble. As for Rochester,
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B. Dillon
I
D. Maher
2
W. Sax by
3
B. Lynham
0
Walt. Griggs
0
0. Madden
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AND HER OFFSPRING
this was his only race as a two-year-old. He
won the Column Produce Stakes by half a dozen
lengths at his next appearance, as a three-
year-old, but was only out twice more during
that season, his trainer finding it impossible to
get him quite right.
Whisk Broom had been going on so remark-
ably well in the autumn that Joyner, his really
accomplished trainer, was not without some hope
of winning the Middle Park Plate ; and the
American colt by no means disgraced himself.
Newmarket, 1909.
Middle Park Plate of ;^iooo, added to a Sweepstakes of
^30 each, 20 ft., of which second received ^200
and third ;^ioo ; for two-year-olds; entrance ;^50.
Bretby Stakes Course, six furlongs. (114 entrants
— ;^3025.)
Mr, Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 9 st
3 lb
Mr. H. P. Whitney's Whisk Broom, 9 st
Major Eustace Loder's Admiral Hawke
9 St. 3 lb. .
Duke of Portland's Merry Jack, 9 st
3 lb. .
Mr. J. B. Joel's Pasquita, 9 st.
Mr. J. W. Larnach's ch. c. by Jeddah —
Game Hen, 8 st. 10 lb.
Mr. J. B. Thorneycroft's Sloanston, 8 st
10 lb
Mr. L. Neumann's Moyglare, 8 st. 7 lb
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Lemberg, 7 to 2 Whisk
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D. Maher i
J. H. Martin 2
B. Dillon 3
W. Earl o
Walt. Griggs o
W. Saxby o
J. Williamson o
F. Wootton o
GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
Broom, 4 to i Admiral Hawke, 7 to i Moyglare, 100 to
8 Merry Jack. Won by a neck ; three-quarters of a length
second and third.
Maher was, however, again riding- Lemberg,
as he had done in the Chesterfield Stakes and at
Goodwood, whenever, indeed, he was not claimed
by Lord Rosebery or any other owner who had
secured his services, and though winning by a
neck is not without a distinct element of risk,
especially on the wide Newmarket course, there
is no doubt that the distance by which he beat
Whisk Broom could have been greatly aug-
mented. This was, in fact, shown unmistakably
in the Dewhurst Plate.
Dewhurst Plate, for two-year-olds. £1 ^zy.
Seven furlongs.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 9 st. 5 lb. . . Maher i
Mr. H. P. Whitney's Whisk Broom,
8 St. 13 lb. . . . .J. H. Martin 2
Betting. — 1 1 to 4 on Lemberg. Won by five lengths.
I minute 3i| seconds.
It will be observed that here Lemberg was
giving 6 lb. instead of 3 lb. as in the Middle
Park Plate, and the neck in the former race was
now extended to five lengths. The Champagne
Stakes had marred what would otherwise have
been a record of complete success.
Lemberg's first appearance as a three-year-
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old was made in the Two Thousand Guineas, a
race for which there have frequently been sen-
sationally close finishes ; and this was to be
another. Partly because Neil Gow had already
been out and had easily won the Craven Stakes,
partly because he was ridden by Maher, he
started a better favourite than Lemberg. The
finish was, however, considerably closer than the
betting indicated.
Newmarket, 19 lO.
Two Thousand Guineas Stakes of ;^ 100 each, h. ft., for
entire colts and fillies, foaled in 1 907 ; colts 9 St.,
fillies 8 St. 9 lb. ; second received ^400 and third
i^200 out of stakes. R.M. (125 entrants — ^6200.)
Lord Rosebery's ch. c. Neil Gow, by
Marco, 9 st. . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Lemberg, 9 st. , . B. Dillon 2
Mr. H. P. Whitney's ch. c. Whisk Broom,
9 St. J. H. Martin 3
Major Eustace Loder's ch. c. Admiral
Hawke, 9 st. . . . . W. Saxby o
Mr. J. Buchanan's b. c. Tressady, 9 st. . W. Higgs o
Mr. W. M. Cazalet's b. c. San Antonio,
9 St. . . . . . H. Jones o
Lord Durham's b. c. Rochester, 9 st. . H. Randall o
Capt. F. Forester's b. c. Placidus, 9 st. . G. Stern o
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's ch. c. Bronzino,
9 St. . . . . . M. Henry o
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's br. c. Nankeen,
9 St. . . . . . F. Fox o
Sir R. W. B. Jardine's br. c. Sanctuary,
9 St. . . . . . . Wm. Griggs o
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Mr. G. A. Prentice's ch. c. Montreal, 9 st. R. Keeble o
Mr. St. Aubyn's b. c. Cardinal Beaufort,
9 St. . . . . . C. Trigg o
Betting. — 2 to i against Neil Gow, 7 to 2 Lemberg,
6 to I Tressady, 100 to 8 Rochester, 100 to 7 Admiral
Hawke and Whisk Broom, 100 to 6 Placidus, 25 to i
Sanctuary and San Antonio. Won by a short head ; two
lengths second and third.
The two horses were very close together, so
much so that Dillon was unable to use his whip
in his right hand, and at any rate an idea existed
that Mr. Fairie's colt was somewhat unlucky to
have been beaten, that the result would have been
different had the jockeys been reversed, which
may or may not have been the case. The chief
result of the struggle was to add interest to the
coming Derby, and there was a rough gallop
— Alec Taylor employs this term instead of
describing it as a trial — at Manton on the 28th
of May, the distance a mile and three-quarters,
not the mile and a half that might have been
expected :
Rose I
Mildenhall 2
Murray 3
Clark 4
Baker o
Lemberg, 3 yrs., 8 st. i lb. .
Maid of Corinth, 3 yrs., 8 st. 5 lb. .
Rosedrop, 3 yrs., 8 st. 5 lb. .
Bayardo, 4 yrs,, 9 st. 8 lb. .
Orphah, 5 yrs., 9 st. 8 lb.
"Lemberg went much the best. Maid of
Corinth and Rosedrop, who ran lazily, finished
together. Bayardo went with no dash at any
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part of the gallop. Orphah jumped in and
brought them along the last seven furlongs,
finishing second." It will be understood that he
is not placed there in the record as he was not in
the spin all the way. It is not a little surprising
to find the fillies giving Lemberg weight. He
and Bayardo, it will be observed, were running at
exactly weight for age.
Neither Lemberg nor Neil Gow was out
between their Newmarket struggle and Epsom,
where the betting on the Derby certainly sug-
gested that the Two Thousand was considered
anything but a trustworthy guide. There were
rumours to the effect that Neil Gow had not been
doing particularly well in the brief interval between
the races, but he was firm in the market at 1 1 to 4 ;
a great many of his backers were, in fact, con-
tent to take less, and it may safely be assumed
that there was not much the matter with him,
nor indeed was he far off at the finish. Lord
Villiers' Greenback in getting to Lemberg's neck
did much better than there had seemed reason to
anticipate. He had won the March Stakes a few
weeks before, and his two-year-old performances
had been unmistakably good : he was out ten
times, won six of his races and was second for
three of the others ; but his victories had not
been in the stakes which raise their winners
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quite to the front rank, though they had been of
sufficient account to bring in £^^^^. There was
nothing discreditable to Lemberg in being pressed
by a colt of that capacity, for Greenback won
his next three races, including the Prince of
Wales's Stakes at Ascot and the Royal Stakes
at Newbury, in which latter he beat Mr. Waldorf
Astor's good filly Winkipop by three parts
of a length, third, a neck behind, being Mr.
C. E. Howard's Willonyx, to whom Greenback
was giving 1 1 lb. It must be added, however,
that Willonyx was far better as a four-year-old
than he had been as a three. One feels, never-
theless, that Greenback was not, as a matter of
real merit, within a neck of Lemberg.
Epsom, 1 910.
One Hundred and Thirty-first Renewal of the Derby
Stakes of £6^00 (including ;^500 for nominator of
winner), with ^400 for second and ;i^200 for third,
by subscription of £S0 each, h. ft., or £$ if declared,
with £6^0 added ; for three-year-olds, entire colts and
fillies ; colts 9 st., fillies 8 st. 9 lb. About a mile and
a half. (371 entrants, viz. i 5 at ;^5o, 195 at £2$,
and 161 at ^5 — ^^^6450.)
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Lemberg, by Cyllene,
9 St. . . . . . B. Dillon I
Lord Villier's b. c. Greenback, 9 st. . F. Templeman 2
Mr. A. P. Cunliffe's b. c. Charles
O'Malley, 9 st. . . . S. Donoghue 3
Lord Rosebery's ch. c. Neil Gow, 9 st. D. Maher 4
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Mr. W. M. Cazalet's b. c. San Antonio,
9 St. .
Mr. E. A. Wigan's b. or br, c. Ulster
King, 9 St
Mr. St. Aubyn's b. c. Cardinal Beau-
fort, 9 St.
Major Eustace Loder's ch. c. Admiral
Hawke, 9 st. .
Mr. W. Hall Walker's b. c. Glaze-
brook, 9 St. .
Lord Derby's br. c. Swynford, 9 st. .
Mr. J. J. Bell-Irving's b. or br. c.
Rokeby, 9 st. .
Mr. J. Wallis's ch. c. General Botha,
9 St. .
Mr. D. M'Calmont's b. or br. c.
Malpas, 9 St. .
Mr. J. B. Joel's b. c. Wildflower II,
9 St. .
Mr. H, S. Gray's ch. c. Gog, 9 st.
H. Jones o
G. Stern o
C. Trigg o
W. Saxby o
A. Templeman o
B. Lynham o
Wm. Griggs o
C. Foy o
H. Randall o
Walt. Griggs o
F. Wells o
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Lemberg, 1 1 to 4 Neil Gow,
100 to 8 Admiral Hawke, Ulster King, and Greenback,
33 to I Charles O'Malley, 40 to i Rokeby, 50 to i
Swynford and Cardinal Beaufort, 66 to i Glazebrook and
Malpas. Won by a neck ; two lengths second and third.
Cardinal Beaufort dwelt and lost ground at the start.
The Stewards called Wells before them to explain his
reckless riding, and suspended him for the remainder of
the Meeting, and reported him to the Stewards of the
Jockey Club. The latter Stewards (Lord Durham acting
for Lord Derby) having investigated the case, were of
opinion that Wells' reckless riding was not intentional,
but they cautioned him strongly as to his future
riding.
GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
Lembergf went to Ascot. He had three
engagements — the Prince of Wales's Stakes, the
St. James's Palace Stakes, and the Fifty-seventh
Triennial. The second, of course by far the
most valuable, being worth ^^2450, was chosen,
and esteemed so great a certainty that odds of
8 to I on him were laid.
Ascot, 1 9 10.
St. James' Palace Stakes of ^100 each, h. ft., with
;6^300 added, of which second received ;^300 ; third
saved stake ; for three-year-olds. Old Mile. (47
entrants — ;i^2450.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 9 st.
Mr. A. F. Basset's Prince Rupert, 9 st.
Lord Derby's Swynford, 8 st. 7 lb.
Mr. Reid Walker's Redwald, 8 st. 7 lb.
Mr. August Belmont's Merry Task,
8 St. 7 lb H. Watts o
Mr. J. B. Joel's b. c, by Ayrshire —
Yours, 8 St. 7 lb. . . . Walt. Griggs o
Betting. — 8 to i on Lemberg, 10 to i against Swyn-
ford. Won by three lengths ; length second and third.
Afterwards it seemed somewhat strange that
this should have been the price, in view of the
circumstance that Lord Derby's Swynford was
one of the other five runners and in receipt of
7 lb. from Mr. Fairie's colt. The explanation
of course is that Swynford was not ready. His
first appearance of the season had been in the
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Derby, when 50 to i was laid against him,
and here it will be seen he was not even
second.
As regards Lemberg's unfortunate expedition
to Paris for the Grand Prix, it can only be said
that he did not show anything approaching to
his true form. The journey, change of sur-
roundings, &c., often affect horses adversely, and
he must be rated as an example ; but I give
details.
Paris, 1 9 10.
Grand Prix de Paris of ;i^i 4,406 for owner and i^8oo
for breeder of winner, ;^I200 for owner of second,
and ^600 for owner of third ; for three-year-olds.
One mile seven furlongs.
Nuage, by Simonian, 9 st. 2 lb.
C. Childs
I
Reinhert, 9 st. 2 lb. .
O'Neill
2
Bronzino, 9 st. 2 lb. .
F. Fox
3
Charles O'Malley, 9 st. 2 lb. .
S. Donoghue
4
Lemberg, 9 st. 2 lb.
D. Maher
5
Sursis, 9 St. 2 lb.
. M. Barat
0
Secours, 9 st. 2 lb.
Sharpe
0
Or du Rhin II, 9 st. 2 lb. .
P. Woodland
0
Le Platine, 9 st. 2 lb. .
R. Sauval
0
Radis Rose, 9 st. 2 lb.
J. Jennings
0
Cadet Roussel III, 9 st. 2 lb.
N. Turner
0
Renard Bleu, 9 st. 2 lb.
G. Bartholomew
0
Cockfield, 9 St. 2 lb. .
M. Henry
0
La Frangaise, 8 st. i 3 lb.
Wm. Griggs
0
Marsa, 8 st. 1 3 lb.
G. Stern
0
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Hunyade, 9 st. 2 lb. . . . Bellhouse o
Coquille, 8 st. 1 3 lb. . . . G. Clout o
Won easily by three lengths ; three-quarters length
second and third, half length third and fourth.
Lemberg missed the Sandringham Foal Plate
at Sandown, which would have been worth over
;^i7oo, nor was he brought out for the Princess
of Wales's Stakes at the Newmarket First July.
He was also in the Zetland Stakes at the Second
July Meeting, for which small event it was
naturally not thought worth while to run him, it
having been determined to keep him for the
Eclipse, in which he was to meet his old
antagonist, Neil Gow. It had been accepted as
fact that Lord Rosebery's colt was not himself
in the Derby, and in estimating chances at
Sandown there was a reversion to the Two
Thousand Guineas running, the question being
whether, as alleged, Lemberg had suffered from
interference when beaten a short head. The
general idea that he ought to have won — with
little or nothing to spare, doubtless, but still that
with fair luck he would just have finished in
front — was borne out by the betting on the
Eclipse, in which it will be seen that Lemberg
was just slightly preferred. Of the others,
Placidus, though he had not done much in
public, was reported able to do biggish things
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at home, and he found a certain number of rash
supporters in the face of the two favourites.
A great race resulted. Sanguine backers of
both Lemberg and Neil Gow persuaded them-
selves during the moments before the numbers
were hoisted that there was a head in favour
of the colt on whom their hopes were fixed.
Pessimists similarly supposed that the horse in
whom they were interested was just beaten.
After what seemed an unusually long time the
verdict was given — a dead heat, the first in the
history of the race, not a very long history,
however — though some of the results had been
extremely close. Thus Lemberg's name was
written below that of his half-brother, but as
one of a bracketed pair.
Sandown Park, 1 9 i o.
Twenty-third Renewal of the Eclipse Stakes of i^ 10,000,
of which owner of second received £goo, of third
j^ii5, nominator of winner ^^500, and nominator
of second ;£ioo ; by subscription of j^5 each for
three-year-olds if ft. declared by October 13, 1908,
or ;£io for four- year-olds if declared by March 31,
1908 ; if left in after those dates a further ;^2 1
each; if left in after March 30, 1909, a further
j^34 for three-year-olds or £^2 for four-year-olds;
and if left in after January 4, 19 10, a further ^^55
for three-year-olds or £^2 for four-year-olds ; with
;^i809 added. Eclipse Stakes Course, one mile and
a quarter. (192 entrants, viz. 30 at £11$, 14
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at ^^63, 26 at £60, 46 at £31, 18 at £26, 23 at
£10, and 35 at £i^— -£2,770.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 3 yrs,,
9 St. 2 lb. . . . . . B. Dillon o
Lord Rosebery's Neil Gow, by Marco,
3 yrs., 9 St. 2 lb. . . . • D. Maher o
Captain F. Forester's Placidus, 3 yrs., 8 st.
6 lb W. Saxby 3
Mr. W. Astor's Mirador, 4 yrs., 9 st. 11 lb. H. Jones o
Mr. W. Astor's Salamis, 3 yrs., 8 st. 6 lb. C. Trigg o
Mr. G. A. Prentice's Montreal, 3 yrs., 8 st.
6 lb. . . . . . .A. Taylor o
Betting. — 5 to 4 against Lemberg, 6 to 4 Neil Gow,
7 to I Placidus, 33 to i Mirador. A dead heat ; third
beaten five lengths. Stakes divided.
Lemberg- had of course been liberally entered.
He was in the three chief races for which he was
eligible at Liverpool, also the Duchess of York
Plate and the Lennox Plate at Hurst Park ; but
his owner had decided to have him trained for the
Leger, and he was delivered at Doncaster fit and
well, the last of the classics being regarded as so
good a thing for him that odds of 5 to 4 on were
laid. The only other one supposed to have any
real chance was Swynford, though fillies have
done such remarkable things at this period of the
season that Mr. Waldorf Astor's Winkipop found
backers at 10 to 1, and Sir William Bass's Rose-
drop, winner of the Oaks — which it was main-
tained, however, that Winkipop ought to have
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won — at loo to 7. Swynford was known to
have come on extraordinarily since, as recorded,
Lemberg" had so readily disposed of him in the
St. James's Palace Stakes. That race had,
indeed, brought him on sufficiently to enable
him to win the Hardwicke Stakes next day, and
Mr. George Lambton had tried him so highly
that it was believed he could not be beaten for
the Liverpool Cup, which he won in a canter by
five lengths, carrying 7 st. 4 lb. In the Sep-
tember of 1910, however, it was not supposed that
Swynford was the equal of the Derby winner, and
the Doncaster result was therefore somewhat
surprising.
Swynford, as just remarked, had made pheno-
menal improvement. His admirers, and not
without cause, were disposed to set him down as
a great horse ; but the explanation of this Leger
seems to be that Maher rode a very bad race on
Lemberg. It is conceivable that Swynford might
just have beaten him, but no one with an appre-
ciation of form will believe that Lemberg ought to
have been beaten by over a length and a half,
and particularly that Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's
Bronzino should have beaten the Derby winner
by the margin given, or indeed by any sort of
margin. In spite of the Grand Prix I should have
been inclined to handicap Lemberg as fully a stone
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better than Bronzino. As a three-year-old this
latter colt was out nine times and won a couple of
races worth together ^^1859. As a two-year-old
he was out nine times without getting nearer
than third. As a four-year-old he won nothing.
As a five-year-old he made one appearance. It
may be said that he was trying to do something,
but he did not do it. In all he ran in two-and-
twenty races and won the odd two ; and this was
the colt who beat Lemberg a length and a half !
Of course it was wrong, recognition of which,
however, afforded little recompense to the layers
of odds.
Doncaster, 19 10.
St. Leger Stakes of ;^6500 (including ;^500 for nomi-
nator of winner), with ;^400 for second and ;^200
for third, by subscription of ;^50 each, h. ft., or
jCS if declared, with £8^$ added; for three-year-
olds, entire colts and fillies ; colts 9 St., fillies 8 st.
1 1 lb. Old St. Leger Course, about i m. 6 fur.
132 yds. (338 entrants, viz. i i at ;^50, 204 at
;^25, and 125 at ^5—^6450.)
Lord Derby's br, c. Swynford, by
John o'Gaunt, 9 st, .
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's ch. c. Bron-
zino, 9 St. .
Mr. Fairie's b. c. Lemberg, 9 st.
Mr. P. Ralli's b. c. Wolfe Land, 9 st.
Mr. H. Lytham's b. c. Marajax, 9 st.
Prince Ladislas Lubomirski's br.
Ksiaze Pan, 9 st. .
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F. Fox
2
D. Maher
3
Wm. Griggs
0
S. Wootton
0
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0
AND HER OFFSPRING
Sir W. Bass's ch. f. Rosedrop, 8 st.
1 1 lb B. Dillon o
Mr. W. Astor's b. f. Winkipop, 8 st,
I I lb. . . . . . H. Jones o
Mr. J. Musker's b. c. William Cope,
9 St. . . . . . C. Trigg o
Mr. G. Aston's ch. c. King of the
Wavelets, 9 st. . . .A. Templeman o
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's br. c. Nan-
keen, 9 St. . . . -J- M'Dermott o
Betting. — 5 to 4 on Lemberg, 9 to 2 against Swyn-
ford, 10 to I Winkipop, lOO to 7 Rosedrop, 20 to i
Bronzino, 33 to i Wolfe Land, 40 to i Marajax and
Ksiaze Pan, 100 to i William Cope, 200 to i Nankeen
and King of the Wavelets. Won by a head ; one and a
half lengths second and third.
After the Doncaster week Lemberg had four
engag-ements and fulfilled them all, a fact which
gives evidence of his soundness. His first race
was for the Jockey Club Stakes, one of the only
two nominal ^10,000 races which now remain.
The little spurt of extravagant prizes which
marked the later eighties of the last century did
not prove remunerative to the executives which
organised them. It is difficult to suppose that
Lemberg would not readily have won the Jockey
Club Stakes from the best of those who were left
in. As it happened he had comparatively nothing
to beat. Ulster King had won the valuable
Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket, and
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there were supposed to be some possibilities
about him as he came from what is known as a
"dangerous stable." Manton, though it scarcely
comes under that designation, for a dangerous
stable is understood to imply the production of
winners whose victories are not expected, has
always been very dangerous indeed ; it was so in
the days of Alec Taylor, senior, and has re-
mained so under the control of his son.
Newmarket, 1910.
Jockey Club Stakes of ;^ 10,000, of which second re-
ceived ;^I500 and third £7S0, nominator of winner
;^400, and nominator of second ;^200 ; by sub-
scription of ;^5 each for three-year-olds if declared
by October 13, 1908, or £10 for four-year-olds and
upwards if declared by March 31, 1908 ; if left in
after those dates a further ;^2 1 ; if left in after
March 30, 1909, a further ;^32 ; and if left in after
January 4, 1910, a further £$2 each; with ;^842
added ; last one mile and three-quarters of Cesare-
witch Course. (212 entrants, viz. 8 at £iiS} 27
at £110, 16 at £6t>, 31 at ^^58, 49 at ^^31, 18 at
£26, 32 at ^10, and 31 at ;^5— ;^7440.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 3 yrs.
9 St. 6 lb
Mr. J. S. Morrison's Dibs, 5 yrs., 9 st
1 1 lb
Mr. E. A. Wigan's Ulster King, 3 yrs.
8 St. 13 lb.
Mr. Reid Walker's Duke Michael, 4 yrs.
8 St. 12 lb.
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F. Wootton 2
W. Saxby 3
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Mr. J. Daly's St. Michan, 5 yrs., 9 st. 8 lb. M. Colbert o
Lord Durham's Charlemont, 3 yrs., 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . F. Fox o
Duke of Westminster's Dumella, 3 yrs.,
8 St. 7 lb. (car. 8 st. 8 lb.) . . H. Jones o
Mr. L. Brassey's Bernard, 3 yrs., 8 st.
1 1 lb. . R. Keeble o
Chev. E. Ginistrelli's Star of Naples,
3 yrs., 7 St. 4 lb. . . -J- Brown o
Betting. — 3 to i on Lemberg, 100 to 9 against Ulster
King, 100 to 6 Dibs, 20 to i Charlemont, 25 to i Duke
Michael, 50 to i St. Michan and Dumella. Won by
three lengths ; head second and third.
Dibs, a self-willed creature who used to give
a great deal of trouble at the start, was really no
more than a handicap horse, and in fact Lemberg
won without an effort. He came to Newmarket
for the Champion Stakes at the Second October
Meeting to encounter Dean Swift, an old gelding
who was not to be despised though doubtless in a
different class from the colt he was meeting here.
Dean Swift, it need scarcely be said, for it is to
be assumed that readers of these pages have
some acquaintance with Turf affairs, had won the
City and Suburban in 1906, again in 1908, and on
other occasions had come near to success in the
same Handicap. He seemed to improve with
age, contrary to the usual order of things. In
his race prior to the one under discussion he had
been beaten two heads for the Chesterfield Cup
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at Goodwood, giving the winner, Captain J. G.
R. Homfray's Land League, 13 lb. No one had
any idea that he would beat Lemberg, however.
Champion Stakes, ;^900- A.F., one and a quarter miles.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 3 yrs., 8st. 8 lb.
(i lb. extra) . . . . D. Maher i
Mr. J. B. Joel's Dean Swift, aged, 9 st. Walter Griggs 2
Betting. — lOO to 12 on Lemberg. Won by six
lengths. Time, 2 mins. 8| sees.
As noted, Dean Swift had been out against
Bayardo. A couple of days later Lemberg re-
appeared for the Lowther Stakes, which looked
quite as great a certainty, and I have no idea
why bookmakers were willing to take a shorter
price.
Lowther Stakes, ;^490. Last mile and three-quarters
of the Cesarewitch Course.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 3 yrs., 9 st. 7 lb. . D. Maher i
Sir Ernest Cassel's Nimrod, 5 yrs., 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . . E. Shaw 2
Col. W. Hall Walker's Royal Realm,
5 yrs., 9 St. 10 lb. . . . W. Griggs 3
Mr. J. S. Morison's Dibs, 5 yrs., 9 st.
4 lb. . . . . . F. Wootton 4
Betting. — 4 to i on Lemberg, 8 to i against Dibs,
100 to 12 Royal Realm, 33 to i Nimrod. Won by two
lengths ; short head. Time, 3 mins. io| sees.
Dibs had run for the Cesarewitch the previous
afternoon, which was not likely to have done him
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any good, but the ease with which Lcmberg had
beaten him in the Jockey Club Stakes when the
five-year-old was giving 5 lb. showed that it
practically made no difference whether he was
giving or receiving what was in the circumstances
a trifle. Royal Realm was a horse of some
character, though not calculated to extend
Lemberg. The colt's remaining engagement was
at Sandown and gave him no sort of trouble.
Sandown Foal Stakes for Three- Year-Olds. ^1724.
Eclipse Stakes Course, one mile and a quarter.
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 9 st. 10 lb. . D. Maher i
Mr. Walter Raphael's Louvigny, 8 st.
10 lb
Lord Carnarvon's Munita, 8 st. 7 lb.
Lord Durham's Brancepeth, 7 st. 11 lb.
Betting. — 100 to 7 on Lemberg, 20 to i against
Louvigny, 33 to i others. Won by two lengths ; five
lengths second and third. Time, 2 mins. 42 1 sees.
Louvigny was a half-brother to Louviers, who
had run King Edward's Minoru to a head for the
Derby, but he never did much. It is improbable
that the fact of Brancepeth having been left at
the post made any difference to the result.
Lemberg had thus won seven of the nine races
for which he started as a three-year-old, counting
the Eclipse Stakes as a victory, and the very
short head in the Two Thousand Guineas had
cost him an eighth.
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As a four-year-old he did not entirely sustain
his reputation throughout the season. That
must be admitted if his career is critically re-
garded, but he assuredly continued to show him-
self a colt of very high character. He was not
brought out until the Coronation Cup on the day
after the Derby, and began his four-year-old
season triumphantly, having shown himself to be
well in a mile and a half gallop at Manton on the
23rd May. Here are details :
Lemberg, 4 yrs., 9 st. 9 lb.
Phryxus, 3 yrs., 8 st. 4 lb. .
Royal Eagle, 3 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb.
Cyllius, 3 yrs., 7 st. 11 lb. .
Declare, 5 yrs., 9 st. 2 lb. .
Dillon I
Trigg 2
Clark 3
Avery 4
Ault 5
Won by half a length ; five lengths between second
and third. Lemberg won easily.
Epsom, 191 1.
Coronation Cup, a Gold Cup value ;^200, and ^^'looo in
specie, added to a Sweepstakes of ;^2Q each, or £^
if declared, with ^100 added for second and ;^50
for third ; for three-year-olds and upwards ; Derby
Course, about one mile and a half. (25 entrants,
viz. 23 at ;£20 and 2 at £^ — ;^i650.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene, 4
yrs., 9 St. 3 lb. . . . B. Dillon i
Lord Derby's Swynford, 4 yrs., 9 st,
3 lb. . . . . F. Wootton 2
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Sir George Murray's Bachelor's Double,
5 yrs., 9 st. 6 lb. .
Mr. C. S. Donnelly's Buckwheat, 5 yrs.,
9 St. 6 lb.
Mr. A. P. Cunliffe's Charles O'Malley,
4 yrs., 9 St. 3 lb. .
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Bronzino, 4
yrs., 9 St. 3 lb.
Lord Villier's Greenback, 4 yrs., 9 st.
3 lb
Mr. P. Nelke's Yellow Slave, 4 yrs.,
9 St. .
Betting. — 9 to 4 against Bachelor's Double and Lem-
berg, 5 to I Swynford, 6 to i Bronzino, 100 to 7 Green-
back, 100 to 6 Charles O'Malley. Won by three-
quarters of a length ; head second and third.
The great thing here Is that he beat Swynford,
thus avenging himself for his defeat in the Leger
the previous year ; and, moreover, Dillon, who
wore Mr. Fairie's colours, was scarcely the equal
of F. Wootton as a jockey, which is all to the
credit of the colt Dillon rode. At the same
time Mr. George Lambton declares that Swynford
was backward at this period, though nevertheless
rather more than a month before he had won the
Chippenham Plate at the Newmarket First Spring
Meeting, when, however, it is true that he had
nothing to beat. The form was nevertheless
accepted by racegoers at large, and when Lem-
berg next appeared, for the Princess of Wales's
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Stakes at the Newmarket First July Meeting,
odds were freely laid on him.
Newmarket, 191 1.
Princess of Wales's Stakes of ;^30 each starter, h. ft. or
^3 if declared, with ^2000 added, of which owner
of second received ;^300 and owner of third ^^200,
nominator of winner ;^300 and nominator of second
;^200 ; for three- and four-year-olds. Suffolk Stakes
Course, one mile and a half. (172 entrants, ;^3 ft.
declared for 55 — £126$.)
Lord Derby's Swynford, by John
O'Gaunt, 4 yrs., 10 st. i lb. . F. Wootton i
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 4 yrs., 10 st.
6 lb B. Dillon 2
Lord Derby's King William, 3 yrs.,
9 St. . . . . . D. Maher 3
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's St. Andrea,
3 yrs., 8 St. i lb. . . . C. Trigg o
Mr. J. A. de Rothschild's Bryony, 3
yrs., 7 St. 7 lb. . . . F. Fox O
Betting. — 6 to 4 on Lemberg, 3 to i against Swyn-
ford, 9 to 2 King William, 33 to i Bryony. Won by
one and a half lengths ; length second and third.
It will be observed that Lemberg was giving
Lord Derby's colt 5 lb., a serious consideration
over a severe mile and a half. Swynford had
incidentally cantered away with the Hardwicke
Stakes at Ascot, and was, there is no denying,
an altogether exceptionally good animal. He
was indeed the one horse then in training by
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whom it was no discredit to be beaten ; and that
the form was sufficiently correct was demonstrated
a fortnight afterwards in the Eclipse Stakes at
Sandown, where the two met again, I cannot
find that there was any excuse for Lemberg in
this race, and it will be seen that he merely did
what was expected, the betting being accepted
as an indication. Swynford had been making
the greater improvement ; it must have been so,
as the Eclipse Stakes course was certainly quite
as well suited for Mr. Fairies colt as for the
long striding son of John o' Gaunt and Canter-
bury Pilgrim.
Sandown Park, 1 9 1 1 .
Twenty-fourth Renewal of the Eclipse Stakes of
.^10,000, of which owner of second received ;^90o,
of third ;^I50, nominator of winner ;i^50o, and
nominator of second ;^ioo; by subscription of ;^5
each for three-year-olds if ft. declared by October 12,
1909, or .^10 for four-year-olds if declared by
March 30, 1909 ; if left in after those dates a
further ;^2 I each ; if left in after March 29, 1910, a
further £^4. for three-year-olds, or £^2 for four-
year-olds ; and if left in after January 3, 1911, a
further ;^5 5 for three-year-olds, or £^2 for four-
year-olds ; with ;^349 added. Eclipse Stakes Course,
one mile and a quarter. (205 entrants, viz, 42 at
;^l I 5, 18 at £6^, 22 at £60, 44 at £^1, 23 at £26,
25 at ;{^io, and 31 at £c, — £S7^s)
Lord Derby's Swynford, by John o'
Gaunt, 4 yrs., 10 st. . . F. Wootton i
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Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 4 yrs., 10 st. . B. Dillon 2
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Pietri,
3 yrs., 8 St. 13 lb. . . . D. Maher 3
Mr. H. P. Whitney's Whisk Broom,
4 yrs., 9 St. 8 lb. . . -J. H. Martin o
Mr. R. W. Burrows' Placidus, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 4 lb. . . . . J. Clark o
Mr. G. Aston's King of the Wavelets,
4 yrs., 9 St. 4 lb. . . . C. Trigg o
Mr. P. Nelke's Yellow Slave, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 8 lb. . . . . F. Templeman O
Betting. — ii to 10 on Swynford, 9 to 4 against
Lemberg, 9 to i Whisk Broom, 100 to 6 Pietri, 50 to i
Yellow Slave and Placidus, 500 to i King of the Wavelets.
Won by four lengths ; same second and third.
An interesting' question came up for exami-
nation at Doncaster : whether Lemberg could
stay? That his owner was convinced he could
do so is shown by the fact of his having been
put into the Doncaster Cup, run over a distance
of two miles one furlong. There was one horse
in the race whose capacity as a stayer had been
thoroughly demonstrated — Lord St. Davids'
Kilbroney, a son of The Wag and Innismakil.
In the matter of class Kilbroney was admittedly
in very poor contrast to the son of Cyllene and
Galicia. Either a horse can stay or he cannot,
however, and if he cannot, class is not of much avail
against genuine stayers. Before going to Don-
caster, Kilbroney had won the Goodwood Cup from
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a staying" filly, Martingale II, who afterwards
ran second to Willonyx for the Cesarewitch.
Kilbroney had won the Great Metropolitan at
Epsom that Spring-, the Summer Handicap at
the Newmarket Second July, giving i6 lb. to
Clarenceux, a colt of his own age who started
there a strong favourite at 2 to i. Prior to that
Kilbroney had failed by a neck to beat a good
horse called Pillo in the Northumberland Plate,
giving- the six-year-old winner 6 lb. He was
therefore by no means to be despised.
Doncaster, 1 9 1 1 .
DoNCASTER Cup, value ;^200, with ;^iioo in specie
added, of which second received ;^200 and third
;^iOO ; for three-year-olds and upwards ; entrance
;^io, £s ft. Two miles one furlong over Old Course.
(34 entrants — £ggo.)
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, by Cyllene,
4 yrs,, 10 St. . . . . F. Wootton i
Lord St. Davids* Kilbroney, 4 3^3.,
10 St. . . . . . Walt. Griggs 2
Sir John Thursby's Adalis, 4 yrs., 8 st.
5 lb C. Trigg 3
Mr. P. Ralli's Wolfe Land, 4 yrs.,
9 St. 4 lb. . . . B. Dillon o
Lord Rosebery's Black Potts, 3 yrs.,
8 St. I lb F. Fox o
Mr. T. Frost's ch. f. by Count Schom-
berg — Persil, 3 yrs., 7 st. 8 lb. . J. Howard o
Betting. — 9 to 4 on Lemberg, g to 2 against Kilbroney,
10 to I Wolfe Land, 100 to 7 Adalis and Black Potts,
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50 to I Persil f. Won by a neck ; four lengths second
and third.
The neck could have been extended, and the
result must have been satisfactory to Lemberg's
owner, who I am inclined to think had at any
rate not imagined that staying was Lemberg's
strong point. It is to be noticed that though he
was entered for the Gold Cup he was not sent
to Ascot.
In the Jockey Club Stakes Lemberg was
stopped by his weight. He encountered a really
good animal in Lord Derby's Stedfast, one of
the best horses of the period. Between Stedfast
and Mr. W. Pilkington's Prince Palatine, winner
of two Ascot Cups, it was agreed that for a
long period there was nothing to choose — and
Prince Palatine is standing at a fee of 400
guineas. An accident on the road, a fall which
severely injured his knees notwithstanding that
he had caps on at the time, left ill effects on
Stedfast. It must have been so, for in the Jockey
Club Stakes of 191 2 Prince Palatine gave him
13 lb. and beat him half a length, which could
not have happened if Stedfast had been himself.
He was at his best, however, when he met
Lemberg in this race, and Mr. Fairie's colt, by
reason of penalties which Stedfast had escaped,
was giving 16 lb. more than weigh t-for-age.
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Stedfast benefited by a 9 lb. breeding allowance,
and Lemberg was giving 2 st. instead of the
12 lb. a four-year-old should give a three-year-
old according to the conditions of the race.
Newmarket, 191 1.
Jockey Club Stakes of ;^ 10,000 ; second received ;Ci 500
(being ;^I23 2, 13s. 4d, out of the stakes and
£267, 6s. 8d. from surplus subscriptions), and third
£7^0 (being £616, 6s. 8d. out of the stakes and
;^I33, 13s. 4d. from surplus subscriptions); nomi-
nator of winner received ;^400, and nominator of
second ^200 out of the stakes ; by subscription of
£$ each for three-year-olds if declared by October i 2,
1909, or ;^io for four-year-olds and upwards if
declared by March 30, 1909 ; if left in after those
dates a further £21 ; if left in after March 29, 19 10,
a further ^32 ; and if left in after January 3, 191 1,
a further £^ 2 each ; last one mile and three-quarters
of the Cesarewitch Course. (210 entrants, viz. 17 at
.^115, 31 at ii"i 10, 20 at ;^63, 20 at ;^58, 56 at ;^3i,
20 at ;^26, 26 at ;^io, and 20 at £s — ;^784i.)
Lord Derby's Stedfast, by Chaucer, 3 yrs.,
8 St. 4 lb F. Wootton i
Mr. Fairie's Lemberg, 4 yrs., 10 st, 4 lb. F. O'Neill 2
Lord Derby's Hair Trigger II, 3 yrs.,
7 St. 1 2 lb, , . . . . F. Rickaby 3
Mr. J. B. Joel's Lycaon, 3 yrs., 8 st.
10 lb. . . . . . G. Stern o
Lord Durham's Cyrano, 3 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. J. Clark o
Betting. — 2 to i on Stedfast, 9 to 2 against Lemberg,
8 to I Lycaon, 10 to i Hair Trigger II. Won by four
lengths ; three lengths second and third.
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The betting shows that according to general
opinion Lemberg was overtaxed. For the rest
he walked over for the Champion Stakes at the
Second October Meeting, and practically walked
over for the Lowther Stakes, having only to meet
a three-year-old called Bryony, who had got
home once during the season in ten races. This
was Lemberg's last appearance, and I may set
out the record of his achievements as I have done
in the case of his brother.
As A Two-Year-Old.
The New Stakes, Ascot
The Chesterfield Stakes, Newmarket
The Rous Memorial Stakes, Goodwood
The Champagne Stakes
The Rous Memorial Stakes, Newmarket
The Middle Park Plate .
The Dewhurst Plate
;^2,oi3
750
1,125
920
3>025
1,527
£9,360
As A Three- Year-Old.
The Two Thousand Guineas . . . . £ ...
The Derby ....
6,450
The St. James's Palace Stakes
2,450
The Eclipse Stakes
4;385
The Jockey Club Stakes
7»440
The Champion Stakes .
900
The Lowther Stakes
490
The Sandown Foal Stakes
1,724
The St. Leger
...
^23,839
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As A Four- Year-Old.
The Coronation Cup, Epsom .
The Prince of Wales's Stakes, Newmarket
The Doncaster Cup ....
The Champion Stakes ....
The Lowther Stakes ....
£i,6so
990
1,000
470
£4,1 10
During his three years in training, therefore,
Lemberg won in stakes a sum of £s7,3og. In
this calculation I am taking the Eclipse Stakes
at what it actually yielded to the owner, though
in the totals published at the end of the
season the whole amount of a stake is usually
credited to a dead heater. To the aggregate
named there is a considerable amount of place
money to be added. As a two-year-old this
was only a matter of ;^50 for his third in the
Champagne Stakes. As a three-year-old Lem-
berg earned ;^400 for his second in the Two
Thousand Guineas, j{^200 for his third in the
St. Leger. The second in the Princess of Wales's
Stakes received ;^500, ^^300 going to the owner
and ;^200 to the nominator. In the Eclipse
Stakes the owner of the second horse received
;{^900, the nominator an additional ;^ioo. Half
this went to Lemberg. He was also, as recorded,
second for the Jockey Club Stakes, which brought
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in jTiyoo. Including place money Lemberg's
total of winnings therefore amounts to ;^40,659.
In all he ran 23 races and won 17. Real good
horse as Lemberg was, I think his owner reckons
Galicia's elder son as distinctly the better of the
pair, though he might pause for a long time
before endeavouring to estimate the superiority in
pounds. Lemberg's offspring have not run up
to the period when I finish this book.
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CHAPTER V
SILESIA, ZIA, AND RADAMES
In 1909 the question arose to whom Galicia was
to be sent, and Mr. Fairie decided on Major
Eustace Loder's Spearmint, who was standing- in
Ireland at a fee of 250 guineas. Spearmint was
certainly one of the most extraordinary animals
in the history of racing. With scarcely an ex-
ception winners of the great classic races have
been home-bred, that is to say, have victoriously
carried the colours of their breeders. Spearmint,
however, had been purchased at auction for the
moderate selling plater price of 300 guineas. It
is always well to avoid superlatives, but it may
be doubted whether there was ever a cheaper
horse than this son of Carbine and Maid of the
Mint. At his first appearance he won the Great
Foal Stakes at Lingfield Park, worth a nominal
^1000 and really yielding ^^835. He was beaten
for the Champion Breeders' Foal Stakes at
Derby, finishing second to Colonel Hall Walker's
Black Arrow ; and carrying 9 st. he ran well
up, fourth, for a Nursery at Newmarket. As a
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three-year-old Spearmint was only out twice,
once in England, when he won the Derby from
one of the best fields known for several years,
and once in France, where he won the Grand
Prix, starting, moreover, at a shade of odds on.
This was Spearmint's last appearance. He had
run five races and won three of them worth
;^i7,239. The Grand Prix varies largely in value ;
in Spearmint's year it was ;^ 10,008, after which
there was a marked increase, Sardanapale in
1914 having brought in ^14,326.
The result of Galicia's visit to Major Eustace
Loder's horse was a filly foal whom her owner
called Silesia. She was pronounced remarkably
good-looking by those who have the gift of
judging the very youthful thoroughbred, and
as a matter of course she was entered much as
her distinguished half-brothers had been, except,
indeed, that her first engagement was the Acorn
Stakes, which, needless to say, is exclusively for
fillies. *' Races to Come" showed her in the
Coventry and Windsor Castle Stakes at Ascot,
the July Stakes, the National Breeders' Pro-
duce Stakes at Sandown, the Great Lancashire
Breeders' Produce Stakes of ^2000 at Liverpool,
the Hurst Park Foal Plate of ^1500, the Rich-
mond Stakes at Goodwood, as also the Prince of
Wales's Stakes at the same meeting, a Breeders'
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Foal Plate at Kempton Park, a similar race at
Manchester, the Buckenham Stakes, the Imperial
Produce Plate at Kempton, the Cheveley Park
Stakes and the Moulton Stakes, though for
some reason she was left out of the Middle Park
and Dewhurst Plates. Had she been in these
her engagements would have seemed a model
list of those which might be judiciously selected
for a two-year-old of the highest class.
I have a recollection of asking her owner one
day how she was progressing, for at the time
Bayardo and Lemberg had made great names
for themselves, and there was natural curiosity to
know whether their sister was likely to rival their
achievements. In this book I am saying as little
as possible about the owner himself, for reasons
which many of those who see the little volume
will understand. Mr. Fairie prefers to remain in
the background ; but I may remark that he spoke
with something approaching to enthusiasm of
the promise Silesia was giving, of her resemblance
to Bayardo in make and shape so far as a filly
can resemble a colt, and furthermore in her
action. Disappointment was expressed as the
stakes into which she had been put passed by
without her production. In fact, she did not
run as a two-year-old, and next season was so
far a further disappointment that she never
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won anything, though she took part in eight
races. They were all, however, events of an
important character. If Mr. Fairie had cared
about the mere fact of winning, no doubt she
might have run up a little score of successes.
He kept her strictly to her engagements, she
was sound and well, and she filled rather more
than half of them, they having been fifteen in all.
I shall not quote them in detail, seeing that her
name never occupied the first place, but details
of her performances in the classics may be given.
One Thousand Guineas Stakes. ;!^4750. Three-year-
old fillies, 9 St. each. Rowley Mile.
Mr. Walter Raphael's Tagalie .
Baron G. Springer's Alope
Lord Falmouth's Belleisle .
Mr. S. B. Joel's Polkerris .
Mr. Lionel Robinson's Bill and Coo .
Colonel W. Hall Walker's Lolette
Sir Berkeley Sheffield's Fair Relative .
Lord Derby's The Tylt .
Lord Durham's Golden Note
Mr. Eustace Loder's Mountain Mint .
Mr. P. Nelke's Miss Spearmint .
Mr. Fairie's Silesia ....
Lord Rosbery's Charmian
Betting. — 7 to 4 against Belleisle, 2 to i Polkerris, 9
to 2 Charmian, 20 to i others. Won by a length and a
half; three-quarters of a length second and third, i min.
39?, sees.
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L. H. Hewitt
I
B. Carslake
2
H. Jones
3
S. Wootton
4
F. Winter
5
W. Earl
6
C. Trigg
7
F. Rickaby
0
J. Clark
0
Walter Griggs
0
F. Templeman
0
J. H. Martin
0
D. Maher
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Silesia's position among the *' 20 to i others "
shows that little was expected, and she started at
20 to I, moreover, for the Oaks, a record of
which may also be furnished.
Oaks Stakes. Three-year-old fillies. ;^4950.
9 St. each. About a mile and a half.
Mr. J. Prat's Mirska . . .J. Childs i
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's Equitable F. O'Neill 2
Mr. Lionel Robinson's Bill and Coo . F. Wootton 3
Lord Derby's The Tylt . . . F. Rickaby 4
Mr. Fairie's Silesia . . . .J. Clark 5
Lord Falmouth's Merry Maiden . . C. Foy 6
Mr. Walter Raphael's Tagalie . . G. Stern 7
Duke of Devonshire's Preferment . W. Higgs 8
Mr. L. Neumann's Sourabaya . . Walter Griggs 9
Lord Falmouth's Belleisle . . . H. Jones o
Mr. J. Musker's Jenny Melton . . F. Hunter o
Sir Berkeley Sheffield's Green Cloth . C. Trigg o
Mr. Peter Gilpin's Lovely Night . W. Saxby o
Colonel Hall Walker's Lolette . . W. Earl (fell) o
Betting. — 2 to i on Tagalie, 7 to i against Belleisle,
10 to I Bill and Coo, 100 to 7 Preferment, 20 to i Silesia,
25 to I each Green Cloth and Merry Maiden, 33 to i
others. Won by three lengths ; three-quarters of a length
second and third. 2 mins, 43 sees.
Mr. Walter Raphael's grey filly, an odds-on
favourite it will be perceived, did little. She had
won the Derby two days previously and possibly
may have been feeling the effects, though that
this was not suspected prior to the race is abun-
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dantly demonstrated by the market. Silesia had
a special quotation of 4 to i for a place instead of
the ordinary fourth of the odds, 5 to i, evidence
that she was expected to improve upon her One
Thousand running, as it will be seen she did,
beating Belleisle, for instance, not to mention
Tagalie ; but Mirska won with a great deal to
spare.
Silesia was sent to Ascot for the Coronation
Stakes, which was supposed to be a good thing
for Polkerris. Odds of 1 1 to 8 were laid on this
filly, Mr. C. Carroll's Melody, a daughter of
Meddler and Ballantrae, making her first appear-
ance of the season and sharing second favouritism
with Silesia at 7 to i, in just slightly stronger
demand than Mr. August Belmont's Qu'elle est
Belle, a daughter of Spearmint. Silesia was
fourth, Polkerris winning by a length from
Melody, the latter giving her 4 lb. It should
have been 7 lb., but F. Wootton, who rode,
had to put up 3 lb. extra, being unable to ride
less than 8 st. 6 lb. Silesia, with her maiden
allowance, carried 8 st. 3 lb.
Mr. Fairie sent her to the post for the Eclipse
Stakes, remote in the extreme as her prospects
obviously were. It was supposed that Stedfast
could hardly be beaten, odds of 13 to 8 being
laid on him, Tagalie second in demand at 9 to
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2, for her Oaks failure was excused, Prince Pala-
tine 5 to I, Lycaon lo to i, Silesia ^;^ to i, La
Boheme II loo to i, King William 150 to i, John
Amendall 200 to i . I think that Stedfast ought
to have won ; but O'Neill on Prince Palatine
gave Maher no room, squeezed him on the rails
in fact, and beat him by a short head. Lycaon
was third, six lengths away, John Amendall
fourth, King William fifth, and Silesia next, in
front of La Boheme II and Tagalie. At Liver-
pool it was thought that Silesia had some chance
for the Knowsley Dinner Stakes. There were
only three runners — Maiden Erlegh, a 9 to 4 on
favourite, carried 9 st. 6 lb., Silesia only 7 st. 11
lb., and she was backed at 1 1 to 4, being beaten
a length and a half, with John Amendall bringing
up the rear. Hurst Park was the scene of her
next attempt, the Hurst Park Lennox Plate
for three-year-olds the prize. Mr. Neumann's
Oiseau Bleu, who at the time of writing is perform-
ing with indifferent success over hurdles, shared
favouritism with Honastir at 5 to 2, Silesia 7 to i,
and the race was taken by the latter's stable com-
panion Equanimity. This daughter of Bachelor's
Button carried 7 st. 12 lb., and won by a head
from Honastir, 8 st. i lb. ; Silesia, 8 st. 4 lb., third,
beaten a length. A length and a head may per-
haps be reckoned at something like 6 lb., so that
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» here Silesia comes out much about the same
animal as the winner.
It will be seen that she was seldom afforded
anything like a real chance, and she certainly did
not find one for the Jockey Club Stakes running
aeainst Stedfast and Prince Palatine. These two
had shown themselves practically inseparable, and
as here Stedfast was receiving 13 lb. it was sup-
posed that he could not be beaten. Apparently
• he had not entirely recovered from the effects of
his bad fall. Of this I have already written in the
previous chapter. Those who had laid 9 to 4 on
him, basing their calculations on his previous form
with Prince Palatine, proved mistaken, the latter
starting at 5 to i and winning by three parts of a
length. Mr. Reid Walker's Adamite was third,
five lengths away, Silesia fourth. Her last ap-
pearance of the season was in the Newmarket
Oaks against two others ; Lord Lonsdale's Eufro-
sina, 5 to 4 on, gave Silesia, 7 to 4 against, 10 lb.
and beat her a length. It had been reasonable
to expect better things from the good-looking
half-sister to the two famous sons of the d^m.
•She left the Turf a maiden, however, and it
remains to be seen whether she will follow the
example of so many other mares who have won
nothing when in training but have earned repu-
tation in the paddocks.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
In 1910 Gallcia was sent to Missel Thrush,
his winning offspring having included a really
good colt called Llangwm, whose three-year-old
career had certainly been remarkable. After one
failure in the Spring, in the Great Surrey Handi-
cap, a five-furlong sprint down the Epsom hill,
Llangwm had been out nine times and had won
all his races with the exception of one, that one
being the Derby, for which he had been third,
beaten two lengths and a neck by Signorinetta
and Primer. I have always entertained the strong
impression that Llangwm ought to have won the
great race, and probably would have done so if
Maher, who rode, had been better acquainted with
him, for on this occasion at least, or so it seemed
to me, the jockey did not distinguish himself
favourably. Later in the year, it is to be observed,
Llangwm gave Primer 21 lb. and beat him a neck,
which certainly seems to show that the Epsom
running was ludicrously wrong ! At any rate,
Llangwm's sire was chosen, and what might have
been the result must remain a matter of specula-
tion as the mare was barren, a lapse for which
she made up -next year by producing twins to
Radium, a chestnut filly who was born dead and
a bay filly called Zia, Of this young one no great
opinion was formed, as may be judged from the
list of her entries. As a two-year-old she was
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only put into seven races, beginning with the
Kineton Stakes at Warwick, 5 sovs. each for
starters with 100 added, following on with the
Osmaston Plate at Derby, a ^200 race, and the
Mostyn Two-Year-Old Plate at Chester, a little
stake of the same value. She was also in the
Eglinton Stakes of ^150 at York and the Stud
Produce Stakes at the Newmarket First July ;
her other two entries were for Rous Plate at Don-
caster, and, her owner taking a chance, somewhat
in the nature of a leap in the dark, also nominated
her for the valuable Buckenham Stakes of ^300
each, half forfeit, at the Newmarket First October.
That year there were only seven subscribers, and
there is always, of course, a great possibility that
nothing of any importance may be left in.
The list of entries formed a striking contrast
to the lists which had been made for Galicia's
other offspring, and the event proved that Zia's
owner had acted judiciously. The filly was not
sent to Manton. She was committed to the
charge of Mr. Francis Lambton, who as Captain
Lambton met a gallant death on .the battlefield
in France. Mr. Fairie's horses, with the excep-
tion of two or three, remained at Manton ; but
Mr. Francis Lambton was getting a stable to-
gether at Newmarket, and his friends were anxious
to help him. The races into which Zia had been
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put show that she was expected to do what little
she could manage to accomplish early in the
season ; but it was not until the last day of Sep-
tember that she appeared, and then in a Two- Year
Old Optional Selling Plate. She had no quota-
tion and finished nowhere. Being fit and well,
however, she was given another run for a similar
Plate at the Second October Meeting. After
these two exhibitions it is rather surprising to
find her carrying 8 st. 1 1 lb. in the Downe
Nursery at Liverpool, except, indeed, that none
of the sixteen starters had less than 7 st. 4 lb.
Zia did no more than she had done in her previous
races, and coming out again for the Eglinton
Nursery at Manchester, this time with 8 St., she
did not attain to the mild distinction of having any
price in the betting. As a three-year-old she
made one appearance, in a handicap at the
Newmarket Craven Meeting for animals of her
age; she carried only 6 st. 11 lb., and made no
show. It is to be feared that she must be set
down as of small use for racing purposes. Lord
Sefton bought her, however, it being arranged
that if he sold her it must be to Mr. Fairie for the
sum he had received, 500 guineas. Lord Sefton
would have paid thrice as much, a mare so
bred being valuable for the stud, but Mr. Fairie
declined to accept more.
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In 191 1 Galicia was sent to Mr. Leopold de
Rothschild's Radium, who was standing at a fee
of 200 guineas, which, indeed, his performances
seemed fully to have justified. This son of Bend Or
and Taia, a remarkably good-looking horse, had
been fourth for Spearmint's Derby, behind Picton
and the subsequent Leger winner, Troutbeck, but
in front of Beppo, Gorgos who had won the
Two Thousand for Mr. Arthur James, Black
Arrow, Sancy, The White Knight winner of two
Ascot Cups, Lally who started favourite for this
Derby but failed through inability to stay, and
amongst others Mr. Fairie's Plum Tree, who
won him the Goodwood Cup later in the season.
Radium did not run again as a three-year-old,
but made exceptional improvement, as a four-
year-old he carried off the Newmarket Biennial
by three lengths from Troutbeck — the Duke of
Westminster's colt, however, giving a stone — and
then afterwards was second for the Great York-
shire Handicap, securing the Lowther Stakes, the
Rutland Handicap with 9 st, 10 lb. — giving the
second, Impression, a colt of his own age, 3 st.
8 lb. — and the Jockey Club Cup, in which he
beat The White Knight and that good stayer
Torpoint. As a five-year-old Radium did still
better. In the Coronation Cup The White
Knight reversed the Jockey Club Cup form, as
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he did again in the Gold Cup, for which he beat
Radium by a couple of lengths ; but after Ascot
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's horse was out five
times without defeat. He took the Dullingham
Plate with lo st. 6 lb. ; the Goodwood Cup, 9 st.
2 lb., from Torpoint, 9 st. 7 lb., and The White
Knight, 10 St. ; the Doncaster Cup, The White
Knight this time fourth at even weights. For
the Beaufort Stakes at the Newmarket First
October Meeting the horse walked over, and
this year he had only one moderate opponent
in the Jockey Club Cup.
Thus he went to the stud with excellent pros-
pects, which may yet possibly be fulfilled. His son
by Galicia was called Radames, a good-looking
bay colt about whom up to the time of writing,
however, there is little to be said. He came out
for the New Stakes at Ascot, as his half-brothers
had done ; but 100 to 7 was offered against him,
and he "had nothing to do with the finish," in
which Colonel Hall Walker's Let Fly beat Mr.
A. F. Basset's Roseland (the latter giving 7 lb.)
by a neck, the late Lord Cadogan's Redfern, a
head behind, third. Radames, indeed, made no
show. His only other appearance was in the
July Stakes. Roseland, 9 to 2 on, beat Mr.
Neumann's Elkington, 7 to i, by half-a-dozen
lengths, Radames, 10 to i, another half-dozen
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
lengths away. This brings up the history of
Galicia's offspring to the present time. For the
season of 191 5 all going well the successes of
the family may be continued by a bay colt called
Kwang Su, by Cicero, specially prominent now
as sire of the King's Friar Marcus. Kwang Su
is considered highly promising.
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AND HER OFFSPRING
CHAPTER VI
BAYARDO AT THE STUD
In 191 1 Bayardo went to stand at the Manton
House stud at a fee of 300 guineas, and as a
matter of course his subscription Hst was speedily
filled. Among-st owners who sent mares was His
Majesty the King, Loch Doon being chosen for
the horse, and the result, a bay colt called Border
Don, was generally admired. I remember Richard
Marsh telling me that the colt '' looked like racing
and showed all his sire's quality." Evidence of
what is expected from a horse is furnished by the
entries made for him, and Border Don was put
into six-and-twenty races as a two-year-old. He
did not thrive, however, and could not be brought
out until late in the season, when he ran for the
Great Sapling Plate at the Sandown Meeting in
October. He was not expected to win, it being
correctly supposed that the race lay between Lord
Michelham's Plucky Liege and Lord Carnarvon's
Volta, who finished first and second with a head
between them ; Border Don figured in the betting,
8 to I being taken. Mr. Fairie himself had very
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
few foals by his own horse. A filly named Ferrara,
a daughter of Bona Dea, was afforded chances
if she were good enough to take them, being
engaged in the New Stakes, the Middle Park
Plate, and other notable events ; but she could
not be produced.
The horse had only one winner in fact, for-
tunately one of some account, a filly called Good
and Gay, her dam Popinjay, the property of
Mr. Waldorf Astor. She came out for a newly-
named race at Ascot, the Bessborough Stakes,
apparently not much fancied, for she started at
lOO to 8, there being a hot favourite in Mr. J. B.
Joel's Polystome, Good and Gay winning, how-
ever, though only by a head, from a black son
of St. Frusquin and Menda called Rossendale
belonging to Sir John Thursby. Good and Gay
was almost favourite for the Chesterfield Stakes
at the Newmarket Second July, in which she
finished third to Colonel Hall Walker's Follow
Up, but she took the Buckenham Stakes from
the same owner's Sea Eagle, the favourite, the
Duke of Westminster's Manxman, a colt who
had shown good form, beaten four lengths for
second place. Her fourth and last appearance
was in the Bretby Stakes, in which she was beaten
a couple of lengths by a really good filly of Mr.
Hulton's called Silver Tag. Good and Gay's
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AND HER OFFSPRING
two races yielded £2>62i2, so that Bayardo had
a not altogether humble place in the list of
winning sires.
Five of his yearlings were offered by auction
in 1913. Bayardino, a son of Lady Raeburn,
made 810 guineas, a son of The Broom 450
guineas, another son of Royal Marriage 1500
guineas, one of Alicia 3700 guineas, bought by
Lord Lonsdale, and one of Cheshire Cat 3100
guineas. In 1914 were sold three colts and a
filly. Sir William Cooke gave 3000 guineas for
a son of Dame d'Or, Captain J. G. R. Homfray
1000 guineas and Mr. H. M. Hartigan 700
guineas respectively for sons of Elizabeth M.
and Evadne, and at the Second October Meeting
the filly, a daughter of Star of the Sea, was
purchased by Sir Thomas Dewar for 870
guineas.
In the spring of 191 5 two young Bayardos
came out at Newbury, a three-year-old named
Wordsworth, dam Rydal Mount, who had not
run the previous season, and a two-year-old, Ali
Bey, dam Mowsali. The race in which the
former took part was the Greenham Stakes for
three-year-olds, and some of the best of the age
opposed him, all, however, it should be noted,
giving him weight. He carried 8 st. 5 lb.
Colonel Hall Walker's Let Fly (9 st. 4 lb.) and
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GALICIA: HER FORBEARS
Lord Carnarvon's Volta (9 st. i lb.) were equal
favourites at 1 1 to 4, odds of 8 to i laid against
Wordsworth, and, Volta being unable to stay,
the race ended in a dead-heat between Let Fly
and Mr. J. B. Joel's Sunfire (g st. 4 lb.). At
Chester the son of Rydal Mount was backed
at 5 to 4 for the Eaton Maiden Plate and
beaten a length by St. Ronald, making his
first appearance. Ali Bey was one of twenty-
eight starters for the Beckhampton Stakes,
which came immediately after the Greenham.
This two-year-old race has almost always been
won by the favourite, notwithstanding that the
field is invariably large : as many as thirty-
eight have run. Precedent was followed.
Duggie won at 5 to 2, Ali Bey fourth. At
Chester the son of Bayardo took the Mostyn
Stakes, 4 to i on him, from two poor animals ;
but next day, though beaten in the Ormonde
Stakes, showed really good form. He finished
second to Lord Derby's smart Marchetta filly,
giving her 10 lb., that is 7 lb. more than weight
for sex, in front of winners, Louviers d'Or and
Dalnacardoch. Ali Bey was beaten half a
length, and according to his jockey ought to
have won. His failure was attributed to an un-
usual reason. Some newspapers were being
blown about in a high wind ; they baulked the
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AND HER OFFSPRING
colt as he rounded the last turn and threw him
out of his stride. He should certainly win
races.
Sir William Cooke's Dame d'Or colt was also
distinctly unfortunate to be beaten in the first
race he ran, the Spring Stakes at the Newmarket
Second Spring Meeting. He started at 1 1 to
ID, and in more expert hands could hardly have
lost. Donoghue on Captain Dermot M'Cal-
mont's Roi d'Ecosse outrode the jockey on the
favourite and won by a short head. Up to the
time of writing the Dame d'Or colt has been out
once more, and that successfully. He appeared
at Windsor on the 22nd May, a memorable date,
for on it was held the final meeting prior to
a cessation of sport decried by the Government
in consequence of the great war. For this
Speedy Two- Year-Old Plate ten ran, and it was
considered by most men, including Sir William,
present in the khaki which at this period was so
conspicuous on all courses, to be a good thing.
At one time odds of nearly 2 to i were laid on
the colt, but it became known that Lord Car-
narvon's Sarrasin was much fancied, and the
young Bayardo behaved very badly at the post,
refusing to join his horses, so that his market
position was affected, it being feared that he
might be left. He started at 13 to 8 on,
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GALICIA
2 to I against Sarrasin ; but though the Dame
d'Or colt was not off first he speedily took his
place and won from Mr. Frank Curzon's Lady
Binns, Sarrasin third. I wind up my book on
the evening of this Windsor Meeting.
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