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trained Roquefort and Volupttiary for the Grand National. In the spring of 1904 

 the world of steeplechasing lost one of its best amateur riders in Captain the 

 Hon. R. Ward. Earlier in that year died Mr. William C. Whitney in New York, 

 a generous supporter of the Turf, both in England and in his native country, 

 where his name will ever be connected with such first-rate sires as Hamburg and 

 Meddler. He secured a high place in the records of English Racing, not only as 

 having twice won the Cambridgeshire, with Watershed and Ballantrae, but as having 

 leased from Lady Meux, after the death of Lord William Beresford, Volodyovski, 



the winner of the Derby of 1901, who only lost the Leger owing to his jockey. 



That Derby was memorable in several ways. There was a big field, and it was 

 the first time the Start- 

 ing-gate was used at 



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Epsom. The white flag- 

 went up at 3.22, and 

 they got away at 3.38. 

 Among the horses 

 beaten by the favourite 

 were Florifonu, Handi- 

 capper. Revenue, Ian, 

 ]]'i Ilia in the Third, 

 Doriclcs, l } ietennaritz- 

 bnrg, Royal Rongc, 

 Olympian, Tantalus, 

 Orchid, St. Mac/on, 

 Lord Hobs, Cottager, 



Veles, ]'eronesc, Wargrave, and Osbock. The time was 2.40+ sees., a record for 

 the race. Of Mr. Whitney's American horses, by far the best and most beautiful 

 was Elizabeth M., daughter of the English-bred Watercress. 



The death of H.R. H. the Duke of Cambridge in March, 1904, broke one of 

 the last links between the modern Turf and the generation which had seen Lord 

 George Bentinck's races. 



In 1902 died Mr. Edward Weatherby, who had not long previously completed 

 a protracted tenure of his hereditary office of keeper of the Match Book and 

 Secretary to the Jockey Club, which made him an honorary member when he was 

 succeeded by his son ; Joseph Enoch, the well-known trainer ; Mr. W. H. Langley, 



" Cap and Bells //." (1898) by "Domino." 



