336 KINGSCLERE 



Archer, and Archer ! Ever ' Archer up ! ' 



(Late at the rooms or greeting the grey dawn), 



Archer, who swept the board of Stakes and Cup ! 

 Hero at Ascot and on ducal lawn. 



A model jockey : no one more deserved 



Fortune or fame, as all his comrades knew ; 

 He travelled straight, nor leapt the rails nor swerved 



And ' passed ' esteemed by lofty and by low. 

 The loss to England — home of sport — was great 



When, all too soon, the stricken martyr died : 

 In him his order reached a high estate, 



In him his calling — aye, is glorified. 



PARADOX 



The ' Sporting Times,' which (since it was transformed 

 and re-created by Mr. John Corlett has insisted upon having 

 its little joke) made merry mockery of the scratching of 

 Mr. Cloete's horse in the following monumental fashion : — 

 1 In Memoriam. — Paradox, who toed the inevitable 

 SCRATCH on Monday, October 5th, 1885. A select syndi- 

 cate of Bookmakers sang his requiem, and the British 

 Public supplied the money for his BURIAL. 



* O thou, whatever title suit thee, 

 Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie.' — BURNS. 



THE EATON STUD 



c For many great horses the British turf is indebted to 

 the head of the house of Grosvenor, who founded the Eaton 

 stud, where were bred six winners of the Derby, viz., 

 Rhadamanthus by Justice, John Bull by Fortitude, 

 Daedalus by Justice, Shotover by Hermit, and Ormonde 

 by Bend Or ; nine winners of the Oaks, viz., Faith by 

 Herod, Ceres by Sweet William, Maid of the Oaks by 

 Herod, Nike by Alexander, Bellina by Rockingham, 

 Meteora by Meteor, Briseis by Beningbro', Wings by the 

 Flyer, and Ghuznee by Pantaloon, and four winners of the 

 St. Leger, viz., Touchstone by Camel, Lancelot by Camel, 

 Satirist by Pantaloon, and Ormonde by Bend Or. But 

 these names are scarcely a fiftieth part of the horses bred 

 at the world-renowned Eaton haras, where was located 



