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Austria, and remained there until 1877. He 

 then came back to England and for four seasons 

 was at the Cobham Stud. In 1881 he was 

 shipped to the United States (having been bought 

 by Mr. J. R. Keene), but died on the voyage 

 across the Atlantic. The stock he got during 

 his four years in England won sixty races, worth 

 ;^ii,i22. The best of them were Sir George 

 Chetwynd's Magician and Mr. T. E. Walker's 

 Tyndrum. In Austria- Hungary his offspring 

 raced well enough to place him second in the 

 Sires' list in 1878 and at the head of it in 1879. 

 During the three seasons Blue Gown was in my 

 hands he won eighteen races, worth ;^i 3,057. 



Rosicrucian did not run as a three -year- old 

 after the Derby; it was obvious he needed a 

 long rest to enable him to throw off the effects 

 of his illness. We were well rewarded for our 

 patience. After running unplaced in the Queen's 

 Stand Plate at Ascot, the Great Eastern Railway 

 Handicap and the Cambridgeshire, Rosicrucian, 

 as a four-year-old, won the All-Aged Stakes at 

 the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, beating 

 Formosa a neck. This performance showed he 

 had at last recovered his form. The following 

 season he won six races out of thirteen, and was 

 only three times unplaced ; while as a six-year- 

 old, after running unplaced in the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes at Epsom and in the Chester 

 Cup, he won the Ascot Stakes (2 J miles) carry- 



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