" THE HEAD OF THE LIST" 



failure. The American colt Sir Martin, as many- 

 readers of these pages will remember, fell in the 

 course of the race, and the precise effect which the 

 accident had upon the field can never be exactly- 

 known. As a two-year-old Bayardo had never been 

 beaten, coming out seven times for stakes which count, 

 varying in amount as they did from £652 to £4357. 

 I think it may be assumed that he was not ready in the 

 Two Thousand, but after the Derby he went to the 

 post eleven times with unbroken success. He won 

 the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, the Sandringham 

 Foal Stakes, the Eclipse, the Duchess of York Stakes, 

 the Leger, the Doncaster Stakes, the Champion Stakes, 

 the Lowther Stakes, the Sandown Foal Stakes, the 

 Limekiln Stakes and the Liverpool St. Leger, his 

 season's work producing £24,797. 



His half-brother Lemberg helped substantially : 

 as Bayardo had done and as so many horses before him, 

 Lemberg came out in the New Stakes at Ascot. He 

 won the Chesterfield, the Rous Memorial at Good- 

 wood and the race of the same name at Newmarket, 

 the Middle Park Plate and the Dewhurst, £9360 in 

 all, so that the half-brothers between them earned that 

 year £34,157, and both moreover kept it up the 

 following season. Bayardo's reappearance in 19 10 

 was made in the Newmarket Biennial. He went to 

 Chester to bring back the Vase, to Ascot for the Gold 

 Cup, which he won in the most brilliant style — as 



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