298 The Derby 



but they never met again. St. Blaise made one solitary 

 appearance as a four-year-old, and was then sold to go 

 to America, where his sons and daughters have made 

 him a great name. Galliard was not seen out as a four- 

 year-old, and is the sire of a large number of horses, for 

 the most part modest in capacity, and, as a rule, 

 distinguished for fretfulness and uncertainty. Some 

 people like the young Galliards, however, and his yearlings 

 sell, nine of them a couple of years ago having made an 

 average of not much under 500/. each. 



The story goes that when St. Gatien was first seen 

 out, in a little race, the Teddington Two-Year-Old Stakes 

 at Kempton Park, a severe critic, looking at the colt and 

 his two opponents as they cantered down the course, 

 protested against the breeding of such rubbish, declared 

 that the three were not worth 50?. a head, and that it 

 was waste of time waiting to see them try to gallop. 

 Little did that scornful looker-on — little, indeed, did 

 anyone — suppose that the colt he derided would divide 

 the Derby (and that with a vastly inferior horse), win 

 the Ascot Gold Cup, the Jockey Club Cup three years in 

 succession, win the Cesarewitch with the unprecedented 

 weight for a three-year-old of 8 st. 10 lb., and perform 

 other brilliant achievements, which have made his name 

 great in turf annals ! 



Lord Falmouth's horses had been sold in the April 

 of the year, and Sir John Willoughby — whose name has 

 been so prominently before the world of late in another 

 sphere of action — had given 8,600 guineas for Harvester, 

 a Sterling colt. Sir John owned at the same time a filly 

 called Queen Adelaide (for her first season she ran with- 

 out a name, and was then for a time called Solitaire), 

 who had not only won the July Stakes at Newmarket, 



