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tually reaped their reward. His daughter, " Brown 

 Duchess," won the Oaks, and his blood is one of the 

 strains in the most successful racing family of the present 

 time, that of the mighty " Galopin " and his even more 

 famous son, " St. Simon." 



At this very last Ascot meeting, indeed, his blood has 

 again come to the front in an astonishing way. " Elf II.," 

 son of " Upas," son of " Dollar," son of " The Flying 

 Dutchman," has put us all to shame, and carried off our 

 most coveted prize — the Ascot Cup. It is quite on the 

 cards that he may eventually become a successful sire, 

 and bring that splendid blood again into fashion, even as 

 " Barcaldine " and " Arbitrator " resuscitated the almost 

 extinct line of " West Australian." 



The female line has also shone lately with a blaze 

 of triumph, and carried off the St. Leger of 1898 by 

 the help of " Wild Fowler," whose grand-dam, " The White 

 Witch," was a daughter of " Massanissa," the well-known son 

 of " The Flying Dutchman," and thus added further testi- 

 mony to the value of " a nick " with this famous family of 

 racehorses. 



" Ellington," his only Derby winner, took the longest 

 time to win that race that any horse has ever required ; 

 and mayhap, if all the stories that floated about were 

 true, he was more than lucky in winning it. If the 

 present Eegulations of Eacing had been then in force, 

 no Derby would have gone that year to Swinton, for 

 when his jockey took his seat in the scales, on weighing- 

 in, he carried in his hand a whip, weighing 7 lb., with 

 which he averred he had been riding, and it was only 

 by the help of that whip that he could draw his weight 

 correctly. That a change of whips had been effected 



