BRITISH STABLES AND FOREIGN METHODS. 



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won the Grand Prix since Mr. Vyner's Minting in 1886. The year before that 



Mr. Brodrick Cloete's Paradox had been successful, and no less than five English 



horses ran in 1863, when the Due de Morny established the race as a polite 



equivalent for the many opportunities given to French horses on the English turf 



from the days of Gladiateur and before him. The pedigree of Quo Vadis is worth 



careful consideration, revealing as it does the use made in France of the Solon 



branch of West Australian; and it may be considered significant that Vinichis, 



whose trials made him his owner's favourite, was beaten into third place by Caius. 



The best parallel I can think of to this triple victory is the memorable occasion 



at Goodwood in August, 



1830, when our own 



William IV. "started 



the whole squadron," and 



came in first, second, and 



third, with Fleur dc 



Lys, Zinganee, and The 



Colonel, in that order, 



as is related on page xix. 



of the Preface to my first 



volume ; and though this 



was in a field of nine 



instead of the fourteen 



at Paris, the competing 



horses were relatively of 



a very much higher 



quality, if records go for anything. The dangers of having more fancied candidates 



than one in the same race was exemplified a little earlier by the same owner, whose 



Grand Prix turned so fortunate ; for M. Blanc lost the French Derby entirely owing 



to one of his jockeys waiting for the other while a stranger beat them both. In 1843 



much the same thing happened to the famous Whitewall stables in the St. Leger, for 



which it had been arranged that Cotherstone, winner of the Two Thousand and the 



Derby, was to be sacrificed to Lord Chesterfield's Prizefighter, against whom Lord 



Glasgow had laid a very heavy bet ; but it is very doubtful whether Mr. Bowes 



knew this. In any case, Nutwith got the better of Prizefighter, who did not give up 



the struggle in time to let Frank Butler know that Cotherstone was badly wanted after 



By permission of His Majesty the King. 



Tlic Stud Grooiris House, 

 Sandringham. 



