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of Paradigm) that laid the foundation of Lord Rosebery's 

 great successes. 



Unfortunately Lord Rosebery is an invalid now and 

 spends most of his time at The Durdans. There he has 

 the finest collection of old horse pictures in the world. 

 He has always been a staunch friend of Epsom and in 

 very many ways done good to the place. A man of the 

 highest ability and culture, he is the finest speaker in 

 England and was always a keen sportsman of the best 

 sort. 



His classic successes have not been confined to the 

 Derby, for he won the Oaks in 1883 with a home-bred 

 one, Bonny Jean, and that branch of the Agnes family 

 has produced other good winners for him. So, too, did 

 Vista (dam of Bona Vista), she being by Macaroni out 

 of Verdure by King Tom, and being one of the famous 

 Mentmore mares, descending from Alice Hawthorn. 



It does not seem very many years since Lord 

 Rosebery entertained me, John Corlett, and three or 

 four others at The Durdans, to see the first Ladas 

 yearlings, but it was in fact in 1898. They were 

 magnificent colts, and what we all wrote about them 

 raised such expectations that when they were prostrated 

 by influenza the following year, and could do little or 

 nothing, their sire came in for unjust condemnation. 

 One of them, however, was Epsom Lad, and he 

 ultimately proved to be the best of his year. 



Lord Rosebery is certainly the doyen of blood-stock 

 breeders, and he is, as already stated, the only living 

 man who has bred three Derby winners. Others have 

 owned two the Duke of Portland, for instance and 

 Mr J. B. Joel bred two, Sunstar and Humorist and he 

 is young enough to breed others but, so far, Lord 



