150 The Life of Fred Archer 
Robert the Devil, and Charles Blanton laid a formal objection 
with the Epsom Stewards and Messrs. Weatherby, their com- 
plaint being couched : 
" We do hereby object to the stakes payable to the winner 
of the said race being paid to his Grace the Duke of West- 
minster as the owner of the chesnut colt which was entered 
for and ran first in the said race in the name of Bend Or by 
Doncaster out of Rouge Rose, upon the ground that the last- 
named horse was not the horse which he was represented to be, 
either in the entry or at the time of the race, and we further 
claim payment of the said stakes to us as the owners of the 
first-named horse, Robert the Devil, which ran second in the 
said race." 
The Epsom Stewards who inquired into the matter were 
Mr. W. G. Craven, Mr. James Lowther, and Lord Calthorp 
(acting for Sir G. Chetwynd). The case for the appellant was 
based on statements of a stud groom, who had been discharged 
from Eaton, his son, and two other employees at the Duke of 
Westminster's stud. Their evidence was to the effect that 
Bend Or was really Tadcaster, by Doncaster — Clemence, and 
that the two colts got mixed up when transferred from Eaton 
to Newmarket and from the latter place to Russley. The book 
of the stud groom showed that no markings had been entered 
opposite the name of Bend Or, but then there were numerous 
other omissions. 
The inquiry was a long one, and eventually the Stewards 
gave the following decision : " We, as Stewards of Epsom, 
unanimously decide that the chesnut colt. Bend Or, which 
came in first for the Derby of 1880, is by Doncaster out of Rouge 
Rose, and the objection lodged by Messrs. Brewer and Blanton 
is overruled." 
The decision was a very popular one, but some years later 
it is said that Mr. Lowther, as the result of further information 
which was brought to his knowledge, formed the opinion that 
he and the other Stewards had made a mistake, 
