292 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



advantage on his part, but just for love of the good 

 man who was gone and to serve the family who 

 remained. 



The sale of the mares, foals and yearlings was a great 

 success, and I remember thinking it would have been 

 wiser to put Amadis up at that time ; but all turned 

 out for the best, as we managed to bring Amadis into 

 greater notoriety that season than he had ever enjoyed 

 since he quitted the Turf, sent him to Newmarket sales 

 in ideal condition, and there the Duke of Westminster 

 bought him for 3500 guineas. Had he not made over 

 3000 guineas he was to have remained at Cobham. 



The late Mr Arthur James must also be named in 

 these memoirs, for him, too, I knew well as one knows 

 people on the Turf and in his quiet way he was an 

 excellent Jockey Club Steward. Moreover, he had an 

 open mind in the matter of blood-stock breeding, and 

 several times sent mares, at my request, to what might 

 be deemed, and indeed were, outlandish horses such 

 as Merman and Great Scot. Merman got Duma for 

 him, and Great Scot got At Last, one of the best little 

 mares, for her inches, that we have seen for many a 

 year. 



Then again when I had bred a filly for the special 

 purpose of " making " Cornstalk, her sire, and had let 

 Richard Wootton have her for 50 guineas, knowing 

 that he believed in Cornstalk (son of Trenton and 

 Glare), and would give her a chance, he proceeded to 

 win two races with her and sold her to Mr James, who 

 soon won two more races with her and shortly after- 

 wards took her out of training. I asked Mr James at 

 Ascot why he had not given her a chance over a longer 

 course, and he said : " She is so beautifully bred that I 



