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M. C. Blanc's Rueil finished ninth. After that there was a pause until M. de 

 Bremond's Holocauste came over in 1899. This splendid grey inherited the blood 

 of Thormanby through his sire Lc Sancy, and on the dam's side of Kisber, who was 

 thought by Hayhoe, when he was in John Scott's stable, to have been better than 

 West Aiistralian. If Holocauste had won he would have been the first Derby 

 winner of his colour since Gustaviis in 1821. He was an unusually good horse, and 

 anything more tragic than the accident which necessitated" his destruction on the 

 course has seldom been seen at Epsom. Jennings must almost have imagined at 

 one time that here indeed was "the second Gladiateur" that had been so long 

 expected. He was dead before M. Blanc's Vinicius had handsomely beaten all our 

 small field except Rock 

 Sand in the Derby of 



r 9 o 3- J U( % m from the 

 subsequent running of 



Vinicins in the Grand 

 Prix, Rock Sand was a 

 good horse in a year 

 of only moderate three- 

 year-olds. Jennings had 

 a long and varied career 

 since he learnt his first 

 jockeyship with Carter 

 under Lord Henry Sey- 

 mour in Paris. He 

 had trained for Prince 



Carignan at Turin as well; and in 1887 he took over Prince Soltykoff's horses 

 from Charles Arnull. After the death of Matthew Dawson he was the doyen 

 of English trainers ; but he never loved anything so well as his favourite French 

 horse. 



Another instance of attachment between man and horse worthy to be included in 

 these memories of famous trainers is that of John Dawson and Galopm. Usually' 

 rather a reserved man, he could not conceal his feelings, as the Duke of Westminster 

 or Lord Rosebery tried to do, when he led his favourite back after the Derby had 

 been won. He showed his delight, too, most unmistakably at Newmarket after the 

 famous defeat of Lowlander. Each of the four in that great quartette of training 



Blair At/tor by " Stochvell" (1861). 



