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Mimi '91. The Oaks came to his stable through the means of 

 Catherine Hayes in 1853, Spinaway in '75, Jannette '78, Wheel of 

 Fortune '79, and Mimi in '91, after which she won the Xewmarket 

 Stakes. He both won and ran second for the St. Leger, in 1877, with 

 Silvio and Lady Golightly, and did the same the next year with 

 Jannette and Childeric. He also won it with the rank outsider, Dutch 

 Oven, in '82, The Lambkin in '84, and with Melton the year following. 

 His seconds for that race were The Reiver in '53, Leolinus in '74, 

 with Trent running third, while Ladas lost by a flukey short half- 

 length in 1894. Blanche of Middlebie and Julius were also third in 

 1858 and 1867. 



Thus is seen that his classic double events were the Two Thousand 

 and Derby with Ladas, who lost the triple event by little over a neck ; 

 Derby and Leger with Silvio and Melton ; One Thousand and Oaks 

 with Spinaway and Wheel of Fortune, two years running, also with 

 Mimi ; while Busybody, who won the Oaks, was trained by Mat up 

 to the day before she won the One Thousand, and Jannette credited 

 him with the Oaks and Leger. Besides which he won the Grand Prix 

 de Paris, with Trent, in '74, and Minting in '86 ; and was second with 

 Primate in '66, The Baron in '87, and Crowberry in '88. 



Heath Farm.— In 1893 he sold the lease of Heath Farm to Lord 

 Marcus Beresford, and leased, from the Jockey Club, The Marsh, which 

 adjoins Melton House, and there he now has his valuable stud of 

 brood mares. 



Ladas. — I now come to deal with Ladas, and considering what that 

 colt has done for Lord Rosebery and the veteran trainer whose history 

 I am now bringing up to date, it may be excused in me if I draw 

 the attention of my readers to p. 399 for the record of what Mr. Dawson 

 said of the handsome son of Hampton before a bridle had ever been 

 put on his head, and what I wrote concerning the Illuminata colt 

 nearly two years before illuminations in the little village of Exning 

 celebrated the great Epsom triumph. 



The Derby of 1894.— The history of Ladas is too fresh in the minds 

 of everybody to warrant my referring to it further than to record a 

 couple of incidents which I am not aware have hitherto been published. 

 I must, however, chronicle in Thoughts upon Sport the reception 

 Lord Piosebery got upon winning the Derby, for, if anything, that book 

 is one of reference, and I think that what I wrote in September, 

 1893 (p. .399), further entitles me to do so. I therefore state, upon the 

 consentient authority of every chronicler of the Press, and upon that of 

 everyone who saw the Derby of 1894, that never in the annals of racing 

 was there such a demonstration on a racecourse in favour of a win. 

 Applause, deafening to a degree, rent the air as Ladas carrying Jack 

 Watts in " the rose and primrose hoops " passed the post ; but when 

 the Prime Minister of England, in his ecstasy, rushed through the crowd) 

 and as owner of the colt he himself bad bred, seized the bridle and led 



