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ceaseless flow of talk. The Messrs Graham of Yardley, 

 Mr Smith of Whimple, and his strange son ; Count 

 Mokronoski ; Sir Blundell Maple, and then Count 

 Lehndorff, whose death before the war I have always 

 thought fortunate, for it would have been impossible in 

 this country for those who had known him so many years 

 to regard him as an enemy. He was like no German whom 

 I have ever seen indeed he might have stepped out of 

 a Vandyke portrait and I know that he once bought a 

 mare and foal from Captain Greer on my recommendation, 

 and without seeing it himself, for 2000 guineas. The foal 

 subsequently won the German Oaks. 



I had many dealings with Count Lehndorff, including 

 the sale to him of Ard Patrick, which I did without even 

 " a scrap of paper " and simply on his word. It came 

 off all right, and though the Count was, I suppose, a 

 Prussian, he must have been one in whom there was no 

 guile. 



The International Horse Agency and Exchange Ltd. 

 has done an enormous business in all these years, and it 

 would be tedious to recapitulate even the leading items, 

 but I must mention the sale of Rock Sand for 25,000, 

 as it is generally supposed that Lord Curzon was the 

 member of the War Cabinet adverse to racing. The sale 

 of Rock Sand was on account of the executors of Lord 

 Curzon's late brother-in-law, Sir James Miller, and it 

 might have been thought that such an object lesson in 

 the value of the race-course test would not have been 

 forgotten by his lordship. Rock Sand without a racing 

 record would not have realised 100 guineas, but he amply 

 justified the 25,000 which was given for him when his 

 son, Tracery, was sent to this country and proved to be 

 better than ever the sire had been. Indeed 40,000 guineas 

 was offered for Tracery (sire of the Panther) and refused. 



When Trenton and Carnage came to England in 1896 

 on the Orizaba, Phil May went with me to Plymouth to 

 go on board and there meet them. It was the ship on 

 which he had made his return voyage from Australia 



