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Sainfoin finished second, beaten a length by 

 Amphion; Surefoot came in four lengths behind 

 the Derby winner. In the St. Leger this form 

 was again vindicated. I saddled no fewer than 

 five horses for the Doncaster ** classic " that 

 year — Sir James Miller's Sainfoin; the Duke of 

 Westminster's Blue Green and Orwell ; Mr. John 

 Gretton's Gonsalvo ; and Mr. W. Low's Right- 

 away. Memoir, the Oaks winner, captured 

 the prize for the Duke of Portland ; Blue Green, 

 Gonsalvo and Sainfoin finished second, third, 

 and fourth; Surefoot was some way behind. 



Sainfoin left Kingsclere shortly after the 

 St. Leger to be trained at Newmarket. He did 

 not win another race. When retired to the 

 stud, he was at the outset located at Newmarket, 

 his fee being 50 guineas. Then for a season 

 or two he was at a farm near Midhurst in Sussex, 

 but returned to Newmarket when Sir James 

 Miller established there the Hamilton Stud. 

 Here it was that Sainfoin begat Rock Sand who, 

 in 1903, won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby 

 and St. Leger. After Sir James Miller's death 

 in 1906, Sainfoin was sold by auction to Lord 

 Carnarvon for 700 guineas, and for four years 

 stood at the Cloghran Stud near Dublin. Then 

 he was sold for a trivial sum to Messrs. Slocock, 

 and died in 191 1 at Carlow. As a stallion. 

 Sainfoin's renown rests chiefly on the achieve- 

 ments of his son Rock Sand, who, after Sir 



