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to do with them. So Sir Daniel Cooper kept them 

 himself, and Footlight, through her daughter Glare 

 not to mention Float became the source of one of 

 the most successful modern families, while Satire pro- 

 duced Juvenal (by Springfield) and other good winners. 

 Juvenal, by the way, was bought by the late Colonel 

 W. P. Thompson of the Brookdale Stud, U.S.A., and 

 became a successful stallion, siring, among other great 

 winners, Chacornac, who won the Futurity Stakes, and 

 later on was trained at Beckhampton and won the 

 Snailwell Stakes, Newmarket, and other races. The 

 prices realised by Flair, Lesbia and Menda, all daughters 

 of Glare, are well remembered, and the family is still 

 progressing. 



Another curious case is that Sanda's last foal, born 

 in 1897, was so small, and showed so little promise of 

 reasonable growth, that he was given away and the 

 old mare destroyed the following * year. Sir James 

 Miller, who owned Sanda, would not have it that the 

 colt could be of any use at all, but George Blackwell 

 formed a different opinion, and in due time this despised 

 son of Melanion became a great race-horse, and not 

 only won a Cesarewitch, but beat William the Third 

 for the Jockey Club Cup. 



Rosaline (by Trenton out of Rosalys) was bred by 

 Mr J. B. Joel, and as a two-year-old was so small 

 that her breeder, on the advice of Charles Morton, 

 gave her away to the Fresh Air Fund. She was sold 

 by auction together with a, mob of other cast-offs at 

 Hurst Park, and I bought the little daughter of Trenton 

 for 25 guineas the top price, I think it was. 



Rosaline grew fully two inches in the following year, 

 and I passed her on for 200 guineas to the late Mr J. A. 



