340 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



triple-crowned Gainsborough, and Bayuda, winner of 

 the Oaks, both by Bayardo. She has Gainsborough 

 full at fee of 400 guineas, and might have had 50,000 

 guineas for him two years ago. 



Mr J. B. and Mr S. B. Joel have done wonders in a 

 comparatively short time especially the former, who 

 has produced at Childwick Bury two Derby winners, 

 Sunstar and Humorist, four Oaks winners, one Two 

 Thousand Guineas winner, two One Thousand Guineas 

 winners, and two winners of the St Leger. 



This is a really remarkable record, as against which 

 Mr Solly Joel can only put up Pommern, with his trio 

 of substitute classics. Nevertheless Mr S. B. Joel has 

 bred many good winners in his time and owns the 

 champion stallion, Polymelus, at his Maiden Erlegh 

 stud. 



It is almost needless to call to memory the great 

 services rendered by Mr Edward Kennedy of the 

 Straffan Station stud, Ireland, when he bought Roi 

 Herode, and proceeded to open a new volume of Turf 

 history, through the Tetrarch and others of the same 

 line, a notable specimen of which is Grey Fox. 



If I were the Duke of Portland, I should say "day by 

 day "in regard to blood-stock breeding, "Rcsitfgaml* 

 for he was at one time by far the most successful of 

 blood-stock breeders, and he won the Oaks no fewer 

 than four times, with Memoir, Mrs Butterwick, Amiable 

 and La Roche. Nobody could have done more than 

 this, but the good fortune has not been maintained, and, 

 if I might advise, the stud paddocks should be shifted 

 to some other part of the Welbeck estate. 



They were great days, however, when St Simon and 

 Carbine stood at Welbeck, and, despite the incidence of 



