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| I i ] | i I i i i ; i ■ I ! I i I ] ! I I j , p I 1 | i ! ] ACCIDENTAL ORIGIN OF ROTHSCHILD STABLE. The Rothschild racing stable in England may ln-said to have come into existence by accident. Years am, Alfred E. T. Watson writes in the April Badminton, there was a personality known as "Fitz-william" Oldncre. His name was not Fitzw illiam. but he had been huntsman to Lord Fitzwilliaius hounds before establishing himself as a saddler in Park str.-et. Amongst his customers was the then Lord Westminster, who owed Oldacre some money. and in lieu of the amount gave him a mare called Evening Star. Sin- was put into training and had an undistinguished career, never winning a race. The late Bare* Lionel de Rothschild. Leopold Roth sehilds father, acquired possession of her and sent her to a I orse called Kremlin. The produce was a tilly that ran unnamed at a race meeting to which the baion was accompanied by the Mr. Disraeli of those days, who utilized the material he picked up in his novel. "Sidonia." upon which he was then engaged. The baron asked bis imaginative companion to suggest a name for the lilly. and Mr. Disraeli, not peculiarlv inspired, but sullicicntly equal to the occasion, called her Daughter of the Star. Daughter of the Star became the dam of Hippie, by King Tom. winner of the Oaks of lsii7: Hippia was in turn the dam of Nellie, from which came Lady l.overulc the dam of St. Ainant. Baron Lionel was inteli sied in breeding, but did not care to race, and in the characteristically generous fashion which has always marked the family, handed over his young thoroughbred stack to his brother. Barea Meyer, who trained and ran them. Daughter of the Star was one of the two mares from which many of the best of the horses now carrying the Rothschild colors descended. The other mare was called Basel aid. because she was received in exchange for an emerald Cat Barea Lionel had won in a drawing. She became the dam of Mentmore Lass, from which descended Zephyr, the dam of Parmesan of Favonius. winner of the Derby of 1S71. in the days when "follow the baron" was a standard piece of valuable advice: lor in this year, besides the Derby, the baron took the Mm- Thousand Ouiacas. the Maks and the St. I.eger with Hannah, not to mention all sorts of other races. The best horse LeCautd de lb-th sebild has owned is undoubtedly St. Frusquin. the meat rival of Persimmon lie was beaten a neck by the kinvs champion in the Derby, but in the Priiiciss of Wales Stakes he was carrying three pounds from Persimmon, and this time St. Frusquin won by half a length, just the difference a few iMiiiinis might be expected to sheaf in horses of practically equal ability.
