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I was glad to be relieved of any pledge of secrecy as to 

 her name. Good old Sir Tatton had gone to his rest 

 without ever knowing it, but, bless his soul, he wouldn't 

 mind that. 



I had points of difference with " Mr Leopold," for I 

 never could quite like his Derby winner, St Amant, and 

 when the colt won the Jockey Club Stakes as a four-year- 

 old he did not forget to call my attention to the victory. 

 Nevertheless St Amant was nothing like so good a 

 horse as his sire, St Frusquin, but his breeding is un- 

 impeachable and comprises practically all the best that 

 the Rothschild breeding studs have ever produced. 



" Mr Leopold " was never happy if his friends had no 

 share in any success that he had gained. " I hope you 

 backed my horse ! " he would always say to them after 

 a victory. 



Next to St Frusquin the really best horse he ever 

 bred was Radium, and he too has in the last few years 

 made thoroughly good as a stallion. But, in any case, 

 the Rothschild taproots of high-class stock viz. Parma 

 and Daughter of the Star will hold on for many long 

 years to come, and recall not merely Disraeli and Con- 

 ingsby but the good man of whom I have been writing. 



Other good men whom I must mention are the 

 brothers H. F. C. and Robert Vyner, both of whom I 

 knew, and, in earlier days, their younger brother, who 

 was killed by Greek brigands. Mr H. F. C. and Mr 

 Robert Vyner were in the Ne^vby Ferry disaster when 

 hunting with the York and Ainsty, and escaped. 



Mint Sauce, by Young Melbourne, was the property 

 of Mr Clare Vyner, who bred The Lambkin, winner of 

 the St Leger, from her ; but Mr Robert Vyner was 

 owner in the later part of her life and bred Minting and 



