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over, he was one of the hardest working Jockey Club 

 stewards we have ever known, and I should say he was 

 certainly one of the most popular. 



Years before, in the Fenian days, he had been Irish 

 Secretary, and John Corlett used always to declare that 

 he was the most capable occupant of that office who had 

 ever been known. So he passed on, leaving, I think, 

 not a single enemy, amid the respect of all and the love 

 of many. 



Hardly second to him in my estimation was the late 

 Mr Leopold de Rothschild, one of the kindest and best 

 of men, whom, with his brothers, Lord Rothschild and 

 " Mr Alfred," I knew for a good many years before I 

 was on The Sportsman. 



A certain amount of imagery is attached to the 

 Rothschild breed of blood stock, from the importance 

 attached to it by Lord Beaconsfield, and his advice to 

 Lady Bradford that her husband should follow on 

 similar lines. " The Daughter of the Star " was a true 

 Disraeli name and it will hold good just as will his. I 

 stayed at Ascott as long ago as 1891, when the present 

 Mr Anthony de Rothschild was a very small boy, and 

 I had with me John Beer the artist. I know we were 

 very well received, and went to see the hounds in their 

 kennel next morning, but what came of it all I don't 

 remember, for the paper of that period for which we did 

 these things was Black and White, now extinct. 



But as for Mr Leopold, he was a wonder, and when 

 he had established a system at his stud for rearing colts 

 in separate paddocks, as the Duke of Westminster always 

 did at Eaton, he at once produced St Frusquin, Galeazzo 

 and Gulistan, each one of whom was good enough to win 

 an average Derby, though Persimmon prevented any of 



