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Evening Star by Touchstone, another of the parent stock 

 of the Rothschild stud, was likewise so to speak a come-by- 

 chance. Originally the property of the Marquis of West- 

 minster, he turned her out of training as worthless for racing 

 purposes, and gave her to Mr. Oldaker, the well-known saddler, 

 who passed her on to Baron Meyer. She was covered by 

 Kremlin, won several races while in foal, and produced 

 Daughter of the Star, who bred Venetia, Hippolyta, and Hippia. 

 Daughter of the Star was also goddaughter of Mr. Disraeli, 

 who was staying at Gunnersbury when the filly won a race at 

 Egham, and who then bestowed this name upon her. 



^V'ith regard to this portion of our work which refers to 

 the home doings of equine celebrities, we cannot adequately 

 express our gratitude and sense of obligation to those owners 

 and trainers who have furnished us with a mass of private 

 information, without which our task had been impossible. 



Nevertheless it would be ungracious to pass over in silence 

 the names of those who have been at the trouble of affording 

 us so much and such timely assistance ; and we must here 

 record our indebtedness to Sir George Chetwynd, Lord Fal- 

 mouth, Mr. G. Lambert, Captain Machell, General Pearson, 

 the Duke of Portland, Mr. R. Peck, and Mr. L. de Rothschild, 

 all of whom have been, or are, conspicuous in turf history, 

 while we must render a similar tribute to Messrs. M. Dawson, 

 J. Dover, T. Jennings, sen., R. Marsh, J. Porter, and R. 

 Sherrard. trainers whose practical skill and judgment has often 

 been rewarded with well-merited success, and all of whom 

 were in the active pursuit of their profession when this task was 

 first taken in hand, though even in this brief list a considerable 

 gap has now been made by death or retirement. 



To these gentlemen our best thanks are due, and are here 

 gratefully recorded for invaluable assistance willingly vouchsafed. 



We hope that our method of arranging these chronicles by 

 stables, instead of chronological sequence, will prove acceptable 

 to the reader. 



For the sake of easy reference we give the scale of weight 

 for age, as at present generally adopted. 



