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slightly deficient, so his sojourn on the limestone pastures of a new country is likely 

 to prove of the greatest benefit to his get. The best racer Australia has produced 

 since Carbine is that wonderful mare Wakeful, a daughter of Trenton, who is the son 

 of Musket and Frailty, and is handsomer and finer built than Carbine. In only just 

 failing to give the three-year-old Lord Cardigan 48lb. in the Melbourne Cup, 

 Wakeful established her claim to a place in that select company of mares which 

 includes Kincscm, La Fleck", La Camargo, Sceptre, and the lately dead Wheel of 

 Fortune, who was at Welbeck when Carbine first arrived with three other Oaks 

 winners to keep her company, in Memoir, Mrs. Biitterwick, and Amiable, a quartette 

 of stars unequalled in any other racing stable of the day. But like La Fleche, Lady 

 Elizabeth, Marie Stuart, Jannette, and many another flier, Wheel of Fortune never 





By permission of Mr. Cafaert. 



The Great Jubilee Stakes, 1897. 

 " Clwyd" beats " Kilcock" and " Victor Wild." 



reaped such glory at the stud as she did upon the Turf. Though Jannette was 

 one of the finest mares of her day for size and quality, Wheel of Fortune was 

 the best Lord Falmouth ever owned, and up to 1881 Archer always spoke of her 

 and Bend Or as the best animals he had ridden. Signorina was perhaps one of 

 the prettiest mares of modern times ; but she was too fidgety to be photographed 

 well, and I have never seen a picture that really did her justice. 



Few who heard Charles Greenwood that day in 1895 expressing the feelings 

 of every visitor to Welbeck, could have realised that by 1903 he would be no 

 longer with us. A true friend, a trusted colleague on the newspaper we both 

 served, an unrivalled "reader" of a race, Charles Greenwood's loss was felt in 

 many more offices than that of the "Daily Telegraph," where "Hotspur" had 



