I30 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



ing 9 St., and also the Alexandra Plate (3 miles), 

 beating Musket three-quarters of a length. Sir 

 Joseph Hawley then sold him to Mr. (now 

 Viscount) Chaplin and Lord Granville, who sent 

 him to the stud in 1872. For a time he was at 

 the Middle Park Stud, but afterwards at Sand- 

 gate, Pulborough, the stud of Mr. Carew-Gibson. 

 The best of his sons was Beauclerc, who, however, 

 failed to carry on the line in tail-male. Rosi- 

 crucian sired a number of high-class brood mares, 

 distinguished for their superb quality. The 

 most noteworthy was Lord Stamford's Oaks 

 winner Geheimniss, whom I had the pleasure of 

 training at Kingsclere. Another was Hauteur, 

 who carried off the One Thousand Guineas in 

 1883. The dams of Volodyovski, Doricles, and 

 Vedas, winners of the Derby, St. Leger, and 

 Two Thousand Guineas, were all daughters of 

 Rosi crucian, who died in 1891. 



