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on ,11,000 in six out of eight races, in spite of being beaten by St. Blaise for 

 the Derby. He died in Germany in 1903. Bend Or is dead as well, the last 

 survivor of the memorable Derby victory of 1880, when Fred Archer rode the 

 winner, Robert Peck trained him, and the first Duke of Westminster owned him. 

 Before three and twenty years had gone they all had passed away. The splendid 

 old stallion was being exercised as usual in the Park at Eaton, when he stopped 

 in his walk and quietly put his head on his attendant's shoulder, as if to say 

 Good-bye, and then laid down and died like the gentleman he was, as sound as a 

 bell to the end. Within a month after his death his get had won close upon 

 ^170,000 in the United Kingdom, and his mares, the most successful matrons in 

 the Stud Book, had even 

 more than that to the 

 credit of their winning 

 offspring. His head, one 

 of the most beautiful I 

 ever saw, was sent to 

 the British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The only son of the 

 invincible Ormonde (save 

 Orme] left in this country 

 in 1904 was Glemvood, a 

 dark bay stallion at Mr. 

 Mclntyre's Theakston 

 Hall Stud, not far from 

 the historic soil of Middleham, High Moor, and Wensleydale. Here he stands 

 with Tarporley, by Si. Simon ; Queens Birthday, grandson of Spectdum, but of the 

 true Weatlierbit and Rosicrucian type ; Best Man, a second edition of Melton, 

 though described as "by Ormonde or Melton;" and Chvyd ; together with over 

 forty brood mares. 



Almost as famous as the golden straw of the Duke of Westminster, or Lord 

 Falmouth's magpie jacket, has been the blue and yellow of the house of Rothschild 

 on the English Turf, and the rise and progress of that famous family yield nothing 

 in the romance of fortune to the traditions of the Grosvenors. The Rothschild 

 family began their successes on the Turf by winning a Hunter's Stakes worth ,65 



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Mr. L. de Rothschild's 

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