MEN WHO HAVE WON THE DERBY. 41 



peerage — Edward Smith Stanley, twelfth earl, born in 

 the year 1752, and who died in the year 1834 (the 

 eighty-second year of his age). His lordship was 

 an honourable sportsman, who pursued the pastime 

 of horse-racing for a period of sixty years with 

 considerable success. During his lifetime he bred 

 several horses which attained celebrity. Bridget, first 

 winner of the Oaks, was his lordship's property ; and 

 the Earl again won with Hermionc in 1794. Sir Peter 

 Teazle, foaled in 1784, was a colt of the Earl's own 

 breeding, and was successful in winning a considerable 

 number of valuable stakes. In his fourth year. Sir 

 Peter was reckoned the best horse of his time. 



That horse became the sire of many of the famous 

 race-horses of a hundred years ago : Sir Harry in 1798, 

 Archduke in 1799, Ditto in 1803, and Pari's in 180G, 

 were all of them Derby winners, Sir Peter being their 

 sire. Sir Peter was also the sire of two winners of the 

 Oaks: Hermione and Parnsite. 



His lordship was an all-round sportsman, which 

 was exemplified in his love of cock-fighting, now — ■ 

 and happily so — a banished sport. In the cock-pit, 

 as on the racecourse, he was at one time invincible, 

 with his celebrated breed of ' black-breasted reds,' with 

 which he gained a great series of victories in the cock- 

 pits of Preston and elsewhere. For many years his 

 lordship was an active member of the Jockey Club, of 

 which institution he was ' the father ' at the date of 

 his death. Lord Derby was twice married ; first to 

 Lady Jane Hamilton, sister to the then Duke of that 

 name. The union proved unhappy; the Earl of Derby 

 never,however,sued for a divorce, but contented himself 



