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regard to blood stock, but he has still to produce a Derby 

 winner for King George. 



The last survivor of a truly sporting lot of brothers, 

 the name of him recalls to me when, nearly fifty years 

 ago, he was a young subaltern at York and, at Sheriff 

 Hulton steeplechases, found as he imagined a 

 bookmaker who had welshed him at some earlier meet- 

 ing. I was there, and saw him set about this man 

 properly, finally seizing his bag and scattering its 

 contents to the winds. As a matter of fact, he had 

 made a mistake of identity, and it resulted in his paying 

 some hundred pounds to settle the matter; but that is 

 the kind of man he was in those halcyon days. 



It is a great pity, to my mind, that the old Hampton 

 Court stud is not revived, and it would be well if the 

 National stud could be removed to that establishment 

 at any rate nominally so that the interest of the nation 

 in it might be fully maintained. It cannot be claimed 

 that the land on which Sainfoin, Memoir, La Flche, 

 Sierra and Best Man were reared is unsuitable ; but, of 

 course, it is easily possible to get more land than that 

 of the old Bushey paddocks. 



Lord Derby has one of the most successful and best 

 studs of the day, wisely distributed at various centres, 

 and both he and his father before him, as well as his 

 grandfather, constitute great names on the Turf; but 

 at present the Derby has eluded them. Canterbury 

 Pilgrim and Keystone II. have won the Oaks; Canyon 

 and Ferry have won the One Thousand Guineas, while 

 Swynford and Keysoe have won the Leger. A Derby 

 will come, no doubt. 



Then there is Lady James Douglas, who has attained 

 to immense success, in a few years, and herself bred the 



