A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



1834. Melbourne, sire of Sir Tatton Sykes (St. Leger, 1846), Cymba (Oaks, 1848), West Australian 

 (Derby and St. Leger, 1853), Marchioness (Oaks, 1855), Blink Bonny (Derby and Oaks, 



iS 5 7). 



1844. The Cossack, sire of Gamester (St. Leger, 1859). 

 1863. Lord Lyon sire of Placida (Oaks, 1877), and Minting. 

 1865. Speculum, sire of Sefton (Derby, 1878). 

 1872. Trappist, sire of L Abbesse de Jouarre (Oaks, 1889). 

 1877. Bend Or, sire of Ormonde ^Derby and St. Leger, 1886). 

 1887. Janissary, sire of Jeddah (Derby, 1898). 



This would be no small record even in the case of a family more noted for its 

 sires than for its actual winners ; and as I look through these details again, at 



the end of September, 

 1901, I find that I must 

 include yet another 

 in this list of sires ; 

 for, up to that date, 

 Ladas easily headed the 

 roll of winning stallions, 

 with 23,933 by ten 

 winners in seventeen 

 races, and had so far 

 beaten St. Simon, who 

 went up to first place 

 in October, and who 

 traces back to Miss 

 Betty D'Arcy's Pet 

 Mare, the mother of Grey Wilkes, which is the same female line as that which has 

 been made illustrious by Binicatchcr, Fangh-a-Ballagh, Royal Hampton, and Ormc. 

 Concerning Ladas it is also interesting to note that both those famous mares, 

 Memoir and La Fleche (who go back to the Dam of the two True Blues), are 

 in foal to him at the time of writing, and those who remember Memoirs record 

 for the Oaks will perhaps think that her foal will be even better than that of 

 the sounder-limbed La Fleche ; for the pace at which Semolina took the field 

 along that day made the test of stamina a strong one indeed. But I must not 

 leave my eighteenth century mares too long to speak of modern matters that will 

 be treated in their right place ; so I will close my little excursion into twentieth 

 century breeding with the hope that Englishmen of to-day will recognise a good 



Sir Edmund Bacon's " Spanking Rorger." 

 By permission of H.R.H. Prince Christian. 



