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carried off the St. Leger, after having been left at the 

 post, so that he had an apparently impossible distance 

 to make up, and it was a triumph of patience and 

 judgment on the part of his jockey, John Osborne, 

 that he beat his eighteen opponents. Whatever may 

 have been the relative merits of Macaroni and Lord 

 Clifden when in training, the chestnut son of New- 

 minster has done far better service at the stud. 

 Macaroni is chiefly remembered by his two daughters, 

 Spinaway and Camelia (who won the One Thousand 

 and ran a dead heat for the Oaks with Euguerrande), 

 although the former, it is true, was the mother of a 

 memorable family ; but no fewer than four Leger 

 winners were sired by Lord Clifden — Hawthornden 

 (1870), Wenlock (1872), Petrarch (1876). and Jannette 

 (1878). The blue blood of Wenlock is still in evidence, 

 with promise of much to come, moreover. His 

 daughter. Wedlock, dam of Best Man, was sold at 

 auction when twelve years old for 4,600 guineas ; and 

 Petrarch was sire of The Bard, who has done excellent 

 things at the stud in France ; for thouo-h critics com- 

 plain that his stock are light of bone and are prone to 

 bad hocks, they keep on winning. Another Petrarch, 

 Throstle, won the Leger of 1894, so that Lord Clifden 

 must assuredly be included among famous horses. 



The idea that a French bred horse could win the 

 Derby had been deemed impossible prior to 1865. 

 Gladiateur had beaten a big field of twenty-nine 

 starters in the Two Thousand, and not a little fluttered 



