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was trained in the famous Druid's Lodge establish- 

 ment, whose phenomenal successes were due chiefly 

 to the wizardry of John Fallon, and the wonderful 

 perspicuity of Mr W. B. Purefoy, known amongst 

 a vast number of friends and admirers as " The 

 Nut." He is a man with exceptional knowledge 

 of horses, both as regards conformation and breed- 

 ing. When Christmas Daisy achieved this dual 

 success he was owned by Mr A. P. Cunliffe, 

 agreed by all to have a wonderful intuition in 

 placing horses. With such a combination of 

 brains, the extraordinary success of that once 

 famous establishment is not surprising. Christmas 

 Daisy, be it noted, is a half-brother to Eremon, 

 a high-class winner of the National. 



Of the breeding of Christmas Daisy it may 

 interest some of my readers to learn that he was 

 the fourth foal of Daisy, 1905, and was got by 

 Vitez by the Derby winner Melton (Master Kildare 

 and Violet Melrose) out of Killawake (Sterling and 

 Seagull). Daisy, his dam, was by Lord Gough 

 by Gladiateur, Derby winner, out of Battagalia by 

 Rataplan, her dam Carol being by the St Leger 

 winner Ossian, out of Carnaby by Hubert or 

 Theobald out of Vilna, Again, too, it may be 

 forgotten by many that Christmas Daisy, like the 

 majority of Daisy's colt foals, was unsexed, as will 

 be seen by the last volume of the Stud Book. 



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