XIV 



THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD 



{Concluded) 



An owner who could breed two such filUes as 

 Hannah and Corisande — capable of securmg the 

 One Thousand, Oaks, St. Leger, and Cesarewitch 

 between them in a single season — might be con- 

 sidered to have had a very fortunate year, but, 

 whilst this distinguished pair were carrying off 

 many of the principal two-year-old races, Baron 

 Rothschild had something very much better in 

 reserve. This was a very fine chesnut colt by 

 Parmesan out of Zephyr, an own sister to Hannah, 

 who had done good service for the stable in the 

 " sixties." He always required an unusual amount 

 of work to get him quite to his best, and this was 

 one of the reasons that he never ran as a tw^o-year- 

 old, though, as I have mentioned in the preceding- 

 chapter, he was actually sent to Ascot to run for 

 the New Stakes, but, on arriving there, was found 

 to be lame. Accordingly the Zephyr colt, as he 

 was then known, carried silk for the first time in 

 the Newmarket Biennial, in which he was beaten a 

 head by Albert Victor. JNIr. Cartwright's colt was 

 ridden by Custance, whilst Morris was on the back 

 of the debutant, so that the latter had the worse of 



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