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which the prizes were provided by Mr. C. D. Rose in the 

 interests of long-distance racing. One of these was a 

 handicap on the Suffolk Stakes Course (one mile and a half), 

 in which Sheen carried 9st, and the other a plate on the 

 Caesarewitch Course, for which his weight was 9 st. 8 Ibs. 



In 1898 no fewer than nineteen sons and five grandsons 

 of Hampton were at the stud in the United Kingdom. 



Lord Clifden's son, Petrarch, won the Two Thousand 

 Guineas and St. Leger in 1876 and the Ascot Cup in the 

 following year, and sired Busybody, who won the One 

 Thousand Guineas and the Oaks in 1884, and Miss Jummy, 

 who completed the same double event two years later. He 

 had no Derby winner, but his daughter Throstle won the 

 St. Leger. From this it would appear that Petrarch's 

 daughters were better than his sons ; but he sired a very 

 high-class horse in The Bard, who was quite good enough to 

 have won the Derby in nine years out of ten. As it was, he 

 came in Ormonde's year, but even then he made a very good 

 fight, and within a few days he made a bold bid for the 

 Manchester Cup, beating everything but Riversdale of his 

 own age, who was in receipt of nearly 2 st As a two-year-old 

 The Bard was undefeated and won an extraordinary number 

 of races. He is now a very successful sire in France. At 

 present Petrarch is best represented in this country by Floren- 

 tine and Lactantius, either of whom gets a good many winners. 



From Touchstone, through Ithuriel, Longbow, and Toxo- 

 pholite, Musket was descended, and though this particular 

 line is little known in this country, it has done great things 

 in Australia, where its best exponent has been Carbine, a son 

 of Musket. Carbine was five years ago imported by the Duke 

 of Portland, chiefly, I believe, with a view to crossing him 

 with St. Simon mares. Whether the experiment will be a 

 success or a failure is hardly proved as yet, but no doubt the 

 blood is very valuable. In addition to Carbine other repre- 

 sentatives of the same family have found their way to this 

 country. Trenton, a good winner and a most successful 

 sire in Australia, has been for three seasons at the Cobham 

 stud, and Carnage also stood there for a season, but he has 

 since been sold to go abroad for a sum which was little less 

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