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and Batt were born, the Duke of Westminster 

 went to have a look at them. After he had 

 inspected Jeddah he said to his stud-groom: 

 ** You will never rear that foal, Chapman.** 

 Three years later, when the colt had won the 

 Derby, the Duke jocularly said to Chapman: 

 ** It would have been as well if you had let 

 Jeddah * go.' You struggled night and day to 

 rear him, and he has rewarded you by beating 

 our horse in the Derby ! ** 



Jeddah was in the same stable as Dieudonn^, 

 both being trained by Dick Marsh. When a 

 two-year-old, Dieudonne won the Imperial Stakes 

 at Kempton, beating Cyllene, who was giving 

 10 lb., by three-quarters of a length. A few 

 days later he won the Middle Park Plate, beating 

 Disraeli three lengths, with Wildfowler third, a 

 head away. It was scarcely surprising, therefore, 

 that Jeddah, especially after his failure in the Two 

 Thousand, was supposed to have no chance of 

 beating Dieudonn^ in the Derby. The fact of 

 the matter was Jeddah could stay much the better 

 of the pair. That his success at Epsom was no 

 fluke was pretty well proved when, at Ascot, in 

 the race for the Prince of Wales's Stakes over a 

 mile and five furlongs, he gave Batt 6 lb. and a 

 five-lengths* beating, and again when he finished 

 second to Wildfowler in the St. Leger. 



Later that year Batt was second to Velasquez 

 in the Eclipse Stakes, third to Dieudonnd and 



