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many horses that have stood at the old place during this 

 period I may mention, besides Trenton and Carnage, the 

 Australians, Merman, Patron, Aurum and Great Scot; 

 the French-bred Pastisson and Arizona ; Bill of Portland, 

 on his return from Australia ; the Derby winners, Sir Visto 

 and St Gatien ; also Baliol (son of Blair Athol), Flotsam, 

 Bushey Park, Santry, Flying Lemur, Marcus, Night 

 Hawk, Amadis and Javelin. The best bargain of them all, 

 however, was Collar, by St Simon out of Ornament (dam 

 of Sceptre), whom I found at Durban when I was in South 

 Africa in January, 1902. He had been kept in training, 

 though seven years old, and was a regular white elephant 

 there, owing to the war. I obtained the refusal of him at 

 2000, to last until after the Newmarket First Spring 

 Meeting. Having seen Sceptre win both Two Thousand 

 and One Thousand Guineas, I did not hesitate for a moment 

 but cabled out to buy Collar, who was full for season 1903 

 at a 5o-guinea fee before he reached England. After 

 that year he filled easily at a fee of 100 guineas, and 

 continued to do so until he died in 1914. He was a 

 remarkable success, but this was not so apparent as it 

 would have been had his stock been retained in England 

 instead of being distributed all over the world. For 

 example, there was one season in which Collar was head 

 of the list of winning stallions in Roumania, second in 

 Russia, seventh or eighth in the United States, and in 

 the first twenty in England. This sort of thing continued, 

 and at last there were winners by him in no fewer than 

 fourteen different countries. So lately as in October, 1918, 

 Cuffs, by Collar out of Murcia, won the Australian Grand 

 National of 1750 sovereigns (four miles). The old horse 

 was a good one himself on the turf, and almost all his 

 stock was gifted with plenty of stamina. Brood mares 

 by him are increasingly valuable, and one of them, Order 

 of Merit, is the grandam of the Panther. 



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