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the rails. Luckily Goater (on Lord Westmoreland's Brahma] shouted out, " Don't 

 you see where Tom French is ? " whereupon Gladiateur was let go, and the race was 

 over at once. His finest race, in the opinion of that excellent judge, Mr. Sydenham 

 Dixon, who saw it, was the Ascot Cup of 1866 against Breadalbane and Regalia. 

 His leg was worse than usual, and Grimshaw, apparently putting a very liberal 

 interpretation on his instructions to nurse his mount carefully downhill, let Breadal- 

 bane pass the stand the first time twenty lengths ahead of the filly, who was about 

 ten ahead of the Frenchman, and when they were on level ground again after the 

 hill the gap was at least three hundred yards. It was closed up in the most 

 astonishing manner when Gladiateur was at last allowed to stride along. People 

 could hardly believe 

 their eyes when Regalia 

 was beaten by forty 

 lengths, and Breadal- 

 bane never finished at 

 all. James Waugh, also, 

 thought this the finest 

 performance ever accom- 

 plished. Gladiatcitr died 

 young, after having been 

 sold to Mr. Blenkiron, 

 founder of the Middle 

 Park Stud, at the out- 

 break of the war, and 

 besides Grand Co^lp, 



who appeared in the Derby, he only left Hero to represent him on the Turf, a 

 bay colt out of Tcsane, foaled in 1872. What Hero might have grown into will 

 never be known, for when both Jennings and Count Lagrange thought he "was 

 as good as his father," he split one of his hind legs at exercise, and had to be 

 destroyed. I have mentioned Regalia in Gladiateur 's mighty Ascot victory. Its 

 value will be enhanced by the knowledge that this big chestnut daughter of Slock^c// 

 won the Oaks of 1865, and was second to the Frenchman for the Leger. She ran 

 thirty-eight times after her only outing as a two-year-old at the Houghton Meeting. 

 For the Gold Vase at Ascot she was only beaten by Tom Cannon's remarkable 

 riding on the "66 to i Mail Train" She never forgave Heartfield for striking her 



" Regalia " by " Stock-weir (1862). 



