200 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



built, sturdy horse, and beyond doubt a very good 

 one, but his year was an unhappy one, and between 

 him and Petrarch there was a mix-up. Kisber did 

 well as a stallion in his native country, Hungary, and 

 in England, before his departure, he sired Kinsky, 

 winner of the Chester Cup ; but as Kinsky was out of 

 Illuminata, who later on produced Ladas, Gas (dam 

 of Cicero) and Chelandry, there seems to be no great 

 reason to give Kisber any special credit for Kinsky. 



Silvio, the 1877 Derby winner, was a really good 

 horse, and a perfect type of the best sort that Blair 

 Athol used to get from Kingston mares. He was 

 tried before the Craven Meetirrg to be as good as the 

 four-year-old Skylark at even weights, and though Lord 

 Falmouth thought Chamant might beat him, this fear 

 did not materialise after the Two Thousand Guineas, 

 for Silvio won the Derby right enough, and also the 

 Leger. He may not have been quite a great horse, 

 but he was a very good one, and he was sacrificed in 

 two succeeding years to leading Jannette and then 

 Wheel of Fortune in their work. He stayed the 

 Cesarewitch course all right and beat Verneuil over 

 it. Moreover, when he went to France he headed 

 the list of winning stallions as the result of his first 

 season there. 



Sefton and Sir Bevys, who came next in order, were 

 beneath contempt as Derby winners, though the latter 

 gave Fordham his first and only winning mount for 

 that race, and was by Favonius out of Lady Langden 

 (dam of Hampton). I used to think that Sir Bevys 

 would make a good stallion, and, failing him, that his 

 son Morglay, a much better-looking horse, would ; but 

 it was not to be. 



