EARLY TRIALS. 133 



remarkable thing she accomphshed on the turf was winning the 

 Bentinck Memorial at Goodwood three years in succession, 

 thereby securing the bonus which then attached to this three- 

 fold victory. At the stud the best animal she ever bred is 

 probably Twine the Plaiden, whose name, if it is to live in 

 history at all, wdll be remembered as Jacobite's dam, rather 

 than for any intrinsic merit in its possessor.^ 



Laura's solitary success at three years w^as when, as the 

 property of Lord Westmorland, she w^on the March Stakes at 

 Goodwood, in those days a great ' getting home ' race ; Mr. 

 Thellusson put in a claim for her, and she went to the stud in 

 the following year, so that her fame rests solely upon the 

 mighty deeds of her descendants. Of these Petrarch is of 

 course the most illustrious, as the winner of the Two Thousand, 

 Leger, and Ascot Cup, and in these latter days as the sire of 

 The Bard ; but Protomartyr, Lemnos, Fraulein, Laureate, and 

 Rotherhill, who disputes with The Rover the paternity of St. 

 Gatien, are all children of which any mother may be reasonably 

 proud. 



Fantail, who was so far beaten on that morning in July, was, 

 next to Queen Bertha, the best performer of the lot in public, 

 for at three years old she won such stakes as the Grand Duke 

 Michael at Newmarket, the Nassau at Goodwood, the Park 

 Hill at Doncaster, the Wothorpe Biennial at Stamford, and 

 the Coffee Room again at Newmarket ; while at four years 

 she won the Tradesman's Plate at Derby ; so that this trial 

 furnishes a signal instance of two young ladies who subse- 

 quently took rapid remove into a higher class, while their 

 schoolfellows, who were originally in front of them, stood still. 

 Fantail, covered by Asteroid, was sold in 1868 to go to 

 Austria, and we know not what there befell her. 



Few more celebrated mares have trod the turf than 

 Achievement in her day — alas ! that it should be only ' in her 



^ Nevertheless, when sold in the Houghton week of 1885 with the rest of 

 the late Mr. Bowes's stud, she realised 1,250/., her c. foal by Isonomy 500/., 

 and Jacobite 2,250/. 



