FAMOUS RACING STUDS OF THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. 



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in getting third to Clwyd and Kilcock, who finished in that order, and his racing 

 career closed splendidly with his victory for the Coronation Cup at Kempton 

 under gst. i3lb. 



At Newmarket also is Sir Ernest Cassel's stud at Moulton Paddocks, formerly 

 presided over by F. W. Day, but now occupied by Mr. Francis Lambton. The 

 silver grey and light blue cap won their first race on the Turf in 1895, and by 

 1901 they had reached .9,711, among the best "winners being Handicapper, Bona 

 Rota, Sermon, Sonatura, Solitaire, Sang Bleu, and Fleur d' Ete. The chief stallion 



I'mm the painting by Captain Adrian Jones. 



" Amphion" 



at Sir Ernest's stud is Love Wisely, a strong, compact young sire with perfect 

 hocks, who was got by Wisdom out of Lovelorn by Philammon, and is full of 

 Birdcatcher blood. The late Mr. Bass never owned a better racer, and Love 

 Wisely would have been more famous had he not been foaled in the same year 

 as Persimmon and St. Frusquin, but in winning the Ascot Gold Cup as a 

 three-year-old, he did what only St. Simon and Marcion have done in the last 

 thirty years, and he beat Flonzel If., Laodamia, Sir Visto, and Victor Wild. 



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