244 Life and Times of " The Druid!' 



favourite, Pompey, and a fine filly with a 

 large blaze to her face was the result. The 

 four of her progeny that Fobert has trained 

 have won no less than ,£33,300, and the 

 only blot on his lordship's racing escutcheon 

 is that he cut up the Flying Dutchman into 

 lots after the Doncaster meeting of 1855. 

 The price was £"5,000, divided into ten ,£500 

 shares, two of which were taken by Lord 

 Eglinton, two by Lord Strathmore, one by 

 Lord Airlie, one by Sir George Armytage, 

 one by Sir H. Hume Campbell, one by 

 Captain Archdall, one by Mr. Henry S. 

 Thompson and one by Captain Hamilton. 



" The history of Lord Eglinton's racing 

 of late years is virtually the history of the 

 progeny of Barbelle, and of her two paddock 

 rivals, Blue Bonnet and Bellona. His last 

 good horse was Corcebus, who proved, how- 

 ever, to be a very unlucky performer, and 

 broke down for the Doncaster St. Leger, 

 when he had passed into the hands of Mr. 

 Hargreaves. In the end his lordship sold 

 his brood-mares and horses in training to 

 Mr. John Massey Stanley, for the ridicu- 

 lously small sum of twenty-five hundred 



