A GREAT YEAR 



to my figures. In those days I was in the habit of 

 riding out on the Heath in the morning and generally 

 came across St. Frusquin's owner similarly employed. 

 I did so on the morning of the Newmarket Stakes day. 

 Mr. Leopold de Rothschild was never disinclined to 

 talk about his horses and their prospects, indeed he 

 liked to do so, and was always generously pleased when 

 he could tell his friends he thought that bearers of 

 the dark blue, yellow cap, were worth backing. I 

 remember making the remark that I supposed St. 

 Frusquin would win the principal event of the after- 

 noon, and was told that he would not run. The going 

 was very hard, the colt not the soundest of horses, and 

 his owner said that he fancied Galeazzo would be equal 

 to the occasion, thus sparing St. Frusquin's legs. 

 The Newmarket Stakes was not regarded as a good 

 thing for this son of Galopin and Eira. He, the 

 Duke of Westminster's Labrador, and Duke of 

 Devonshire's Balsamo, were as nearly as possible equal 

 favourites. Galeazzo won from Balsamo by a neck, 

 Loates again beating Watts. 



In 1896 the head of the list figures were more than 

 double those of 1895, amounting to ^46,763. A 

 two-year-old filly helped towards this to the extent of 

 ^4481, viz. Goletta, half-sister to Utica by Galopin, 

 and about her there was a curious circumstance. Mr. 

 Leopold de Rothschild told me he had no sort of doubt 

 that Mr. " Fairie's " Eager was distinctly better than 



