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in the winner like a -man, the "earthquake shout of victory" burst 

 forth in volume till " the roar " resembled naught but thunder in the 

 Alps, and to his dying day the longest liver of the multitudes who, 

 on June 6, attended the Derby, will never, unless he gets softening 

 of the brain, forget that scene. No doubt to Lord Rosebery as " the 

 most popular owner in England," which I rightly described him to be, 

 and at the time of victory being Her Majesty's Chief Counsellor, was 

 accorded the greater share of that " explosion of applause," but I am 

 very sure that *' the veteran trainer," although he was unfortunately 

 not able to be present, came in for his share, for Mat Dawson as a 

 trainer is equally popular with Lord Rosebery as an owner. 



I need not here enumerate them, but those circumstances which 

 surround the Derby of 1894, especially the fact that for the first time 

 it was won by a horse the property of the Prime Minister, constitute 

 it as the most memorable upon record, even though the winner, with 

 four and a half to one on him, started the greatest favourite in the 

 annals of the race. I must, however, allude to a feature which has at 

 the present moment a peculiar significance. An ebullition of public 

 feeling such as broke forth on that occasion, shared as it was by losers 

 as well as political opponents of Lord Rosebery, while it shows how 

 the nation admires a manly sportsman, demonstrated with emphatic 

 evidence the contempt which the British public entertain for those 

 who, with narrow-minded bigotry and impertinent interference, strive 

 to injure the noble sport, and for that matter, all sport. 



With the Woodcote Stakes, the Coventry Stakes, the Champagne 

 Stakes, and the Middle Park Plate to his credit when a two-year- 

 old ; and the Two Thousand, the Newmarket Stakes, and the Derby 

 in his three-year-old year, Ladas won for Lord Rosebery £18,513, and 

 started for the Princess of Wales' Stakes at Newmarket, on the 5th 

 July, an unbeaten colt. In both this race and the Eclipse Stakes, at 

 Sandown, on the 20th of the same month, he was beaten by Isinglass, 

 and again did the son of Hampton suffer defeat, this time at the hands 

 of Throstle for the Leger on September 12th. 



In threshing out the circumstances of these three races^ columns 

 of newspapers may be measured by the yard, while men more or 

 less qualified to judge have talked on the subject almost ad 7iauseam. 

 Now my humble opinion is this, that as far as Isinglass is concerned, 

 he won the two races from Ladas through the assistance he got from 

 a pace-maker rather than through his own merits, great, no doubt, 

 though they be. Priestholm was started at five-furlong speed to 

 serve the seasoned stayer and to run out the youngster, a plan of 

 campaign which accomplished the result desired. If, however, Ladas 

 and Isinglass were to be started in a match at weight for age, say the 

 one mile and a quarter across the flat at Newmarket, with nothing 

 else to make or mar the pace, assuredly I would back Ladas. 



