CHAPTER XIV 



THE U.S.A. 



Business with America James R. Keene and the Mares bought for 

 him Extraordinary Results Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield Messrs 

 Corrigan & McKinney Messrs Riddle & Jeffords The late 

 William Easton Remarkable Sale in 1891 Mr H. P. Whitney's 

 ;ioop First Voyage to the Argentine R.M.S.P. Clyde Dice 

 for Cocktails Advance of Mr Lloyd George predicted "Jimmy " 

 Getting Argentine Sales Business in Montevideo The Buenos 

 Aires Jockey Club Racing at Palermo Sale of Diamond Jubilee 

 Friends in the Argentine Difficulties in getting there Trainers 

 at Palermo Secure Grey Fox for England The Grand Hotel 

 Mr Getting cooks 



BUSINESS in the United States will always 

 remain the pleasantest of memories to me, for 

 it is there where I first made good, having met 

 the late Mr James R. Keene in 1887, and somehow that 

 gentleman was convinced that I could do him good 

 service. In 1891 I assisted the late Mr William Easton 

 in buying mares for him at the Newmarket December 

 sales, when we secured, among others, the mare who 

 produced for him Cap and Bells, winner of the Oaks ; 

 but my great adventure on his behalf was when, in 

 December 1892, he commissioned me to buy him twelve 

 good mares at an average of 1000 guineas, eleven to 

 be foaling mares and one a maiden, if very good. This 

 commission, like all that Mr Keene did, was impulsive 

 and sudden just before the December sales began and 

 I had little time to work out all the necessary inquiries ; 

 but somehow all turned put well. I secured eleven 



