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the Epsom Derby, but was not placed (the winner being Httle Daniel O'Rourke) ; he won the 

 St. Leger, and nine other races in the same year. The following year he was beaten by 

 Teddington at Ascot for the Empress Cup, and his career on the turf closed at the end of his 

 fourth year, having won during that period stakes of the value of rather less than ten thousand 

 pounds. 



But as the sire of winners of great races Stockwell has had no equal. For several years 

 before his death his fee was one hundred guineas, and his subscription was always full. Amongst 

 his stock were included St. Albans, Blair Athol, Lord L)'on, Achievement, Doncaster, winners 

 of three Derbies and four St. Legers, with several running second and third for those races, 

 whilst his winning grandsons and grand-daughters may be counted by scores. 



FLYING DUTCHMAN, WINNER OF THE DERBY AND ST. LEGER, 1849. 



West Au.stralian in 1S53 won the Two Thousand Guineas, the Epsom Derby, and the Doncaster 

 St. Leger. At four years old he won three races, and was then put to the stud. The late 

 Lord Londesborough, on setting up a racing stud, purchased him for /4750. Put to a series 

 of first-class mares he got nothing worth recording in turf annals. On the death of Lord 

 Londesborough in i860, he was sold by auction to the Comte, afterwards Due, de Morny, for 

 three thousand guineas. In France he was equally a failure. On the Due dc Morny 's death the 

 I'^mperor of the French purchased him for ^1,500, but he died without being sire of one good 

 horse of any kind. His French stock, whether race-horses or steeplechasers, all broke down 

 in training. Yet he was one of the best runners ever seen, a far more promising colt than 

 Stockwell. 



