" ' SCEPTRE' WINS!" 



711 



Marey's work on similar lines, tend in the same beneficial direction. The statue 

 of King Tom (p. 490), and the painting of the Arab Vonolel, are examples of 

 what modern art can effect when the artist who is great in other directions turns 

 the full power of his genius towards the presentation of that most beautiful of 

 all animals, the horse. I am encouraged to think that the day is now not far 

 distant when we shall see a Derby winner, painted during his lifetime by a 

 President of the Royal Academy, on the walls of Burlington House, and preserved, 

 after his death, within the British Museum of Natural History. So long a 



n 



Sir James Millers "Rock Sand" (Derby, 1903 . 



pedigree and so good a performance deserve no less a recognition from the nation 

 they have adorned. 



Nothing inculcates the virtue of modesty, and an appreciation of the gifts of 

 others, so strongly as the kind of work which has engaged my idle moments for 

 so long. Those who point out my mistakes will only increase my admiration for 

 the many who know more of Turf History than I do, and the many who have 

 so generously placed their knowledge and their treasures at my disposal in time 

 for me to make full use of both. Those who wonder that anv inaccuracies should 



