202 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



secured Foxhall as a stallion in England and had good 

 reason to regret it. 



Shotover, the Derby winner of 1882, was a fine, 

 substantial, lengthy chestnut filly, but very far from a 

 good one inferior indeed to her stable companion, 

 Geheimniss, who was little better than a brilliant 

 sprinter. The good horse of this year was Bruce, who 

 was alleged to have shied at a piece of paper when 

 running for the Derby, and afterwards won the Grand 

 Prix. He was ridden by " Thammy " Mordan in the 

 Derby. 



There were two or three good colts in 1883, but St 

 Blaise, the Derby winner, was not one of them. I 

 allude to Macheath, Beau Brummel and Galliard, of 

 whom the last-named should certainly have won the 

 Derby, though he was inferior to Beau Brummel, in the 

 same stable. Beau Brummel, however, was infirm and 

 not wound up on Derby Day. It is futile to go back 

 on old scandals, but there is practically no doubt that 

 Galliard's defeat caused his owner, Lord Falmouth, to 

 sell off his blood stock. St Blaise was anything but a 

 high-class Derby winner, but he attained fame in the 

 U.S.A., where he was sold for 100,000 dollars, a very 

 big price in those days. 



We saw better horses in 1884, though how Harvester 

 made a dead heat with St Gatien for the Derby is a 

 mystery, as also why Mr Hammond, St Gatien's owner, 

 agreed to divide. St Simon was in that year, and no 

 one ever knew the limit of his racing merit. On the 

 Derby form, as measured through Harvester, he was 

 vastly superior to St Gatien, but it is almost absurd to take 

 St Gatien's Derby form as correct, and the fact remains 

 that he won the Cesarewitch in a canter by four lengths, 



