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Middleton would get a good race-horse, and it 

 was only in consequence of continual failures that 

 he was at last induced to send Crucifix, Latitude, 

 and one or two others to Touchstone, with the 

 result that Surplice and Loadstone were foaled in 



1845, and sold by Lord George as yearlings in 



1846, with the rest of his stud. His Lordship 

 did not live to see the full realisation of his antici- 

 pation that one day Bay Middleton would become 

 the sire of a great horse. This happened in 1846, 

 when The Flying Dutchman was born, and in 

 1851, when Andover, another winner of the Derby, 

 first saw the light. Again, in 1848, Sir Joseph 

 Hawley's Venus gave birth to Aphrodite, and in 

 1853 to Kalipyge, both being daughters of Bay 

 Middleton, the last-named being, in Sir Joseph 

 Hawley's opinion, the best mare that he ever 

 owned. She broke down in 1856, after winning 

 the Craven Stakes at Epsom. 



The site selected by the present Duke of Port- 

 land for his breeding establishment at Welbeck 

 Abbey, upon which he has erected extensive 

 buildings and formed very complete and well- 

 arranged paddocks, is the very spot which it was 

 Lord George's ambition to employ for the same 

 purpose, if he could have prevailed upon his father 

 to entertain the idea. The extraordinary success 

 attending the valuable stud installed at this 

 moment upon the site in question is another proof 

 of Lord George's foresight ; but it is doubtful 



