2Qo MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



and that Tibthorpe was a roarer when he was a 

 foal. 



One of the greatest figures in the last decade of the 

 nineteenth century was the Duke of Westminster, and I 

 shall always remember him as a most kindly gentleman, 

 though a somewhat arbitrary Duke. 



His reputation as a breeder came to him almost by 

 chance, for it was by the merest chance, and not by his 

 own design, that he became possessed of Doncaster, who 

 got Bend Or for him in his first stud season. That 

 was the foundation of the sire line ; but the Duke did 

 not care about Doncaster and sold him to go to Austria- 

 Hungary. Bend Or remained a sa tower of strength 

 and sired Ormonde and Kendal in his first stud season. 

 The Duke thought well of Ormonde for one year at 

 the stud when he got Orme, Goldfinch and other 

 good ones. After the horse had suffered badly from 

 pneumonia the following season, and only sired one foal 

 out of a full list of mares, his Grace decided to let him 

 " leave his country for his country's good " on the 

 ground of his being a roarer, it was said but Credat 

 Judceus ! or why was Orme installed as principal 

 stallion at the Eaton stud ? 



More accidental successes followed, for Vampire would 

 not have been mated with Orme had she not been such 

 a savage mare that they dared not send her away from 

 home. The Duke had even ordered her to be shot, 

 when she ran open-mouthed at him, as he was looking 

 at her over her box door, and made him start back and 

 lose his hat. Nevertheless she produced Flying Fox 

 to Orme and that gave the Duke his final triumph. 



He had two priceless mares Angelica, sister to St 

 Simon, and dam of Orme ; and Ornament, sister to 



