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men who were termed " bonnets," by cheating and fraud. Mr. Edwin 

 James, Q.C., and the present Mr. Justice Hawkins were for the 

 plaintiff, and his Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales was present 

 during the trial, which created much interest among sporting men. 

 The jury found for the plaintiff to the full amount claimed with 

 costs, and it was satisfactorily proved that loaded dice had been used 

 on the occasion. Now this man Adkins was a well-known turfite and 

 owner of racehorses, and Lord Derby appealed to the Jockey Club 

 to warn the said Adkins ofi" the Heath at Newmarket, and allow no 

 horses of which he might be in whole or in part owner to run on 

 any ground over which the Jockey Club exercised jurisdiction. The 

 Stewards were roused for once to a sense of theu- responsibility by 

 this stirring appeal, and Adkins was dealt with as Lord Derby 

 advised. This protest of the noble earl's, too, bore good fruit in 

 other ways, and for a time, at any rate, stemmed the influx of black- 

 guardism which was beginning to contaminate the tui'f. 



But let us turn for a moment to Lord Derby as a breeder of horses. 

 Some of his home-bred stock, such as Fazzaletto, Longbow, Acrobat, 

 Iris, Cape Flyaway, &c., were certainly animals of which any owner 

 or breeder might be proud ; but it is an undoubted fact that the best 

 horse (or at least the greatest winner) that his lordship ever possessed 

 he did not breed ; that was the famous mare Canezou, which he 

 purchased from the late Mr. Allen, of Malton, by the advice of John 

 Scott. It is said that the mare and her sons. Paletot, Fazzaletto, and 

 Cape Flyaway, won as much as £24,780 between them. Of course 

 f he value of such a mare to such an owner as Lord Derby cannot 

 be estimated by the mere thousands she won for him so much as by 

 the strain of excellent blood which he thus dispersed through the 

 country. One of Lord Derby's earliest winners and most famous 

 horses was Ithuriel, whose beauty was so remarkable that it has been 

 perpetuated in an admirable statuette modelled in silver by Mr. 

 Cotterell for the Goodwood Cup of 1845. Strange to say this cup was 

 won by Psalmsinger, a horse which Lord Derby bought from John 

 Scott for a mere trifle when a two-year-old, but was an animal of 

 no special note. Although he owned several good horses, the earl 

 never won either the Derby or the St. Leger, and was only once 

 successful for the Oaks, with Iris, in 185L Canezou was second to 

 Surplice for the St. Leger, and Meteora had a near thing of it for 

 the Oaks in 1854. The Dutchman's Handicap in 1862, which he 

 won with Cape Flyaway, was the last race in which the Derby colours 

 — black jacket and white cap — were in front, and the last prize any 

 of his horses ever ran for was the Union Cup at Manchester, in 1863, 

 which, however, he did not win. His lordship after this relinquished 

 the turf and devoted his declining years to politics and literature — 

 figuring in the one as Prime Minister and leader of the Tories, and 

 in the other as the graceful translator of Homer into spirited English 

 verse. He died on October 23rd, 1869, and his death was looked upon 

 by men of all shades of opinion as a national loss. 



