2 70 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



The largest amount of 'public money' ever 

 won, without betting-, by an owner in a single 

 season, is the ^73,858 los. won by the Duke of 

 Portland in 1889 ; and the largest sum ever won 

 by a single horse, in ' public money,' during his 

 career, is the ^55,154 los. won by Donovan. 

 Lord Falmouth, who did not bet, and hardly lived 

 into the era of ' monster stakes,' having retired 

 from the turf in 1884, won nearly ,^212,000, in- 

 credible as it may appear, in eleven years, from 

 1873 to 1883 (both included), and in that way and 

 by the sale of his horses (when he had quite done 

 with them, for he seldom or never sold yearlings), 

 such as Atlantic and Silvio, and of his whole stud 

 in 1884 for at least ^150,000, must have made a 

 rare good thing of his racing and breeding. On 

 the other hand, that very astute gambler, Comte 

 F. de Lagrange, who not only often stood at the 

 head of ' winning owners ' in this country (where 

 he won upwards of ^73,000 of 'public money' in 

 the course of five consecutive years, from 1876 to 

 1880) and in his own, but betted heavily, and as 

 successfully as a ' backer ' very well can, into the 

 bargain, made anything but a fortune for himself 

 and his ' confederacy ' by his Gargantuan style of 



