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and thoroughly understood the advice given to Lord Rosebery that if he wished 

 to continue racing it would be difficult to withdraw the horse. After Lord Rosebery 

 had taken his own name off the books of the House, he remained a welcome guest 

 for ever afterwards. 



That first Ladas did not prove the flyer he was expected to be, later on, 

 and it was not till he owned Kennesse that Lord Rosebery got a really good one, 

 though he won the Gimcrack Stakes in 1873 with Padoroshna. He has trained 

 with James Dover at East Ilsley, where Achievement and Lord Lyon did their 



gallops ; with Robert Peck at Russley ; 

 with Robert I'Anson at Epsom, who 

 trained both sire and dam of the 

 second Ladas; with Joseph Cannon at 

 Newmarket ; with Matthew Dawson ; 

 with the younger Walters ; and with 

 Charles Wood at Jevington. In 1904 

 Blackwell and Percy Peck were each 

 training a selection of Lord Rose- 

 mrngp j bery's racers. 1 know of no one else 



(Pr^xr alive now who has run two of his 



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own Derby winners in the same race ; 

 and with His Majesty, the Duke of 

 Portland, Mr. Gubbins, and Sir James 

 Miller, he was one of the five men 

 alive in March, 1904, who had won 

 the Derby twice. 



One of Ladas best sons, Epsom 

 Lad, is, by the kindness of Mr. James 

 Buchanan, reproduced in an engraving for this volume near that of his sire. It 

 is in the good company of IsingLiss, Sf. Frusquin, Flying Fox, and Ard Patrick that 

 Epsom Lad, a son of Disorder by Bend Or, stands among the few horses who 

 have won both the Princess of Wales's Stakes and the Eclipse Stakes, but his 

 win in the latter will always be remembered because his jockey's saddle slipped, 

 and Gomez had to hold it on with one hand behind him while he finished with the 

 other. How close the finish was may be seen in the instantaneous photograph 

 preserved on p. xvii. of the preface to my first volume. It was a clever piece of 



From a pencil drawing by 

 Jane E. Cook. 



The First Duke of 

 Westminster. 



