CHAPTER XXIX 



SOME NOTABLE BREEDERS AND FINIS 



Lord Rosebery's Great Double The Paraffin Blood His three Derby 

 Winners The Original Ladas King Edward's Breeding Suc- 

 cesses A Memory not wholly pleasant Perrier, and what came 

 of him Other Memories of King Edward "Old Kate" Lord 

 Marcus and the Mating of Vane Lord Marcus at Sheriff Hulton 

 Lord Derby's Successes The Messrs Joel Lady James 

 Douglas The Duke of Portland and Welbeck Lord Astor 

 Final Words 



THIS book is dedicated to Lord Rosebery, for 

 he is the only living man who has bred three 

 Derby winners, and, what is more, was the 

 Prime Minister on the occasion of the first victory. 



The scene when Lord Rosebery led in Ladas was 

 almost equal to that when the Prince of Wales (King 

 Edward) led in Persimmon. It is pleasant indeed to 

 remember those scenes, and yet Lord Rosebery, in his 

 early days on the Turf, had but few of Fortune's favours. 

 I remember him making a speech in which he alluded, 

 with his full felicity, to the fact that he had started 

 three runners for the Derby and they had finished first, 

 second and third in the very last places. I saw that 

 Derby, and also the one of 1874, when his Couronne de 

 Per ran second to George Frederick, beating Atlantic 

 into third place. Couronne de Per, however, was not 

 quite sound in his wind. 



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