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there was the Duke's Conroy, by Bend Or. His 

 only race as a juvenile in 1895 was the Criterion 

 at Newmarket, in which he ran Prince Soltykoff's 

 Aureus to a neck. The first time out the follow- 

 ing year he was successful in the Ascot Derby, 

 beating Positano and Bay Ronald. Positano, I 

 may mention, shortly afterwards went to Aus- 

 tralia, where he became a famous sire. One of 

 his offspring was the brilliant Poseidon. Bay 

 Ronald, of course, became the sire of Bayardo 

 and Dark Ronald. 



None of the two-year-olds in my care in 1896 

 was of outstanding merit; still, half-a-dozen of 

 them managed to win races that season, among 

 them being Mr. Low's Kilkerran and Lord 

 Alington and Sir Frederick Johnstone's Vesu- 

 vian, Zarabanda, and Butter. The last-named 

 won three good races as a three-year-old, but 

 was always half asleep, and his legs gave us a lot 

 of trouble. 



Passing on to 1897, we come to the then 

 two-year- olds, Batt, Collar, Calveley, Ameer, 

 Lowood, and Orpah, owned by the Duke of 

 Westminster; Hawfinch, Celada, Everleigh, and 

 St. Jessica, who belonged to me ; Mr. Alexander's 

 Mandorla; and Mr. Low's Winsome Charteris, 

 Hall Mark filly, and Hermiston. Collar and 

 Calveley ran only once each as juveniles; the 

 former was unplaced in the Middle Park Plate, 

 and Calveley was beaten a head in the Rous 



