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from his study window. A stone that had once 

 been the crosiered tomb of a Cardinal, but had 

 gradually mingled with the ruins, and then served 

 as threshold to the box where Weatherbit now 

 stands, is built into the wall to mark the spot ; 

 and thus to a certain extent Frank Buckle's last 

 Derby winner is canonised." 



In Mr Langley's ' Reminiscences of Easby,' full 

 justice is done to Emilius's extraordinary career 

 at the Stud ; and it is recorded that " Mr Jaques 

 hired him for £100 for the season of 1847, and, 

 owing to his great age, insured his life — the first 

 policy of the kind ever issued by the office — for 

 that amount, which, curiously enough, fell in, 

 owing to the horse dying in the August of that 

 year, aged twenty-seven." 



His Lordship's partiality for stayers was not 

 gratified when he purchased Bay Middleton. 

 Nevertheless he manao^ed to win some races 

 over two or three miles of ground with two- 

 year-olds got by that famous son of Sultan. It 

 was one of their characteristics that they stood 

 less in need of severe training than the young sons 

 and daughters of other sires. When Lord George's 

 horses went from Danebury to Goodwood, he 

 imagined that they would stay better if trained 

 more severely. After experimenting with some of 

 them in this way, I found that long and strong 

 gallops, often repeated, had the effect of making 

 them worse and worse, until at last they lost even 



