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CHAPTER X. 



THE DRUID'S VERSATILITY. 



HE memory of racing men is 

 so short, and their knowledge 

 of the performances of great 

 horses which nourished before 

 their time so scanty, that ''The Druid's" 

 comments upon the sporting career of one 

 of the greatest pillars of the Turf that the 

 nineteenth century has produced, will per- 

 haps be read with interest by some to 

 whom the late Earl of Eodinton is no more 

 than a name. The following article was 

 contributed to the Doncaster Gazette shortly 

 after Lord Eglinton had sold the whole of 

 his stud, including brood mares and horses 

 in training, to the late Mr. John Massey 

 Stanley, who subsequently became Sir John 

 Massey Stanley Errington, and died at an 

 advanced age in 1892. 



