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The mare was insured and Mr Ashley thought all 

 was well. So did I, though my task had been a 

 thankless and hardly pleasant one. All went well for 

 a while and the mare produced a nice filly, afterwards 

 named Ziria, in 1902. She was mated with Martagon, 

 and later on, when her insurance was expiring, the 

 usual notices were sent, not once only, but twice. No 

 answer was received, and so the insurance was not 

 renewed. The following year she produced another 

 filly, but died a few days after foaling, and was unin- 

 sured. The foal was saved and reared on another 

 mare, but it was a worrying business to me, as can be 

 imagined, though I had really no personal interest in 

 it. Mr Ashley had been in blissful ignorance that the 

 insurance had lapsed. Arcadia was only sixteen when 

 she died. The two old friends settled the matter 

 amicably, of course, but I always felt some unintelligible 

 sense of blame in the matter. 



Since then Sir John Robinson has bred many of 

 the greatest winners on the Turf, and the Worksop 

 yearlings are always among the sensational lots at 

 Doncaster. 



The above statement as to studs that have grown 

 up within the last thirty years is very far from exhaus- 

 tive. At Tickford Park there is a very important 

 establishment, and Son in Law, who was bred there, 

 is the principal stallion. Sir Gilbert Greenall is a 

 comparative new-comer as a breeder of blood stock, 

 and he has been remarkably successful, and there are 

 many other new studs where blood stock is bred for 

 sale, but for my part I always regret the cheery days 

 when big studs had their yearlings sold at home, and 

 of those studs the most notable was that of Middle 



