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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



been as much a comrade as a contributor ; and the world of Racing paid his 

 memory a just and general tribute when the news of his unexpected death reached 

 this country from abroad. After the death of Francis Lawley, Charles Greenwood 

 had stood with John Corlett and Sydenham Dixon in the front rank of the best 

 sporting writers of his day. 



Carbine is not the only Australian sire in England. Mr. W. Allison has some 

 of the finest now alive at the Cobham stud, which he manages with so much skill 

 and experience. Among them are Merman, a " cast-iron " horse with wonderful 

 bone, who was bred (by Grand Flaneur] in New South Wales in 1892. After 

 racing successfully in Australia, he was bought by Mr. Allison for Mrs. Langtry in 



1896, and finished his 

 career for her magnifi- 

 cently with the Ascot 

 Gold Cup in his eighth 

 year. Aurum is another 

 Australian importation. 

 He was probably the 

 best horse of his age in 

 Australia, and is a son of 

 Trenton, the fourth sire 

 from the same good lime- 

 stone pastures which, as 

 I must once more repeat, 

 are surely destined to 

 supply a reinvigorated 



stock to keep up the excellence of the old blood in this country. Four years older 

 than Carbine, Trenton is better looking, and a more commanding horse in every 

 way, and he was at the head of the winning Australian stallions of 1901-2, with 

 that splendid mare Wakeful as his best daughter. Mr. Spencer Gollan, whose 

 success with Australian Star will not easily be forgotten, is doing similarly good 

 work for this country, and his Sternchaser, imported from New Zealand, is in 

 charge of Mr. W T orthington at the Grange stud, Ivinghoe, with several mares also 

 from the Antipodes. 



In speaking of Richard Marsh's stable at Newmarket, I mentioned Persimmon 

 (1893), Diamond Jubilee (1897), an d Florizel II. (1891) among its greatest racing 



By permission of" Country Life." 



"A'etutal." 



