FAMOUS FACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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Welbeck and the fine collection of brood mares and foals he has there. Ayrshire, 



who is evidently well suited by the Newmarket air, made .36,915 by his eleven 



wins on the Turf, and since 1893 his stock have won ,96,537. Ayrshire's hind legs, 



though fairly straight when young, are becoming sickle-shaped as he grows older, 



but they are well let down, and his muscular loins and quarters, good stifle, and 



long, well-placed humerus are more than enough to account for his excellence. 



Sf. Serf, a more commanding-looking horse than his stud-comrade, is taller but 



not so deep-girthed. His hind legs are also not quite straight enough; his humerus 



is not so well placed as Ayrshire's, 



and he has a little lumber in front, 



but his speed came from his excellent 



stifle and fine loins and quarters. He 



is a son of St. Simon out of Feronia, 



foaled in 1887, and won ,5,809 as 



a three-year-old. From 1895 to the 



end of October, 1903, his stock won 



,69,462 in 181 races and a dead heat, 



the best of them being Thais, Mabon, 



Happy Slave, Calveley, Merle, and 



Serpentine. 



It has been lucky for the Uuke of 

 Portland that St. Simon, Ayrshire, 

 Donovan, and the rest should have 

 done so splendidly at the stud just 

 at a time when the "white, black 

 sleeves and cap " seemed almost 

 unable to get a winner past the post 



on the Turf, after a series of successes from 1887 to 1894 which have only 

 been excelled by Lord Falmouth's wonderful victories. I have already spoken of 

 St. Simon in my first volume (pp. xxii. and 5) and elsewhere, but it is only fair 

 to add that, under other circumstances, the names of Scot Free, St. Gatien, 

 Harvester, and The Lambkin would most probably not have appeared on the 

 honourable rolls of the Two Thousand, the Derby, and the St. Leger, for none 

 of them would have given the bay son of Galopin and St. Angela much 

 trouble had he been able to compete for these races ; he did, as a matter of fact, 



From a pencil drawing fy 

 Jane E. Cook. 



The Sixth Duke of 

 Portland. 



