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VETERANS 01 THE RACE COURSE ABROAD. Last week a reference appe ared in The Sportsman to the nam in of an eighteen year ..id rati re horse in I flat rare m Germany. This is Rarely ■ record, lhe horse in question. Hagopoan. was bred by Lord Dovae la 1992. and was by Hagioscope out ol the enriotdy bred Lenity, w hich was by Bend Or sal of Ileutenee. It is possible that the Utter mare was Bead Ors dan, and thai the produce of Range Rose and Clemen ec aere really nixed up after they left Baton as vearliugs. in the same way as Mrs. Buttercup la Pi ue fore ntixed up two of the chief characters in thai comic opera in the nays. when, as stated m her song, she "practiced baby farming." That Bend Or was out ot Bongo Boae, 111 H Cleinence. was decided bj [be i:p stewards when the owner ol Robert tbe Devil objected to Bead Of after the Derby, but sound, if Indirect, reasons hare been ad vain , d since then to show that Cleinence may base, after all. I B the Derby winners dam. However. H avails nothing now to go into thai matter again, and ii is plain that the late Duke of Westminster, who bred Lenity, bad no faith in the story aiHuit the mix up. otherwise hi- would not have ranged Clemen. e to be mated with Bead or. Hagopean did rood service for Lard Lovvite in his JOSUg da.vs. and as a three-year -oU lie won the Craven Plate at Catierick and the Tbirsk Handicap, in which latter be beat a useful horse in Liniiy by a neck. Ills German performance at the age of eighteen years, in giving weight snd a beating over a mile and a ball to a Connie of I hi ce vear olds, stamps bun as a phenomenal hoi-c of bis class. As there is usually incestuous Ueeding somewhere close up in the pedigrees of remarkable race horses, it may. therefore, I nail as some people in their belief thai Cleinence was really Hie dam of Bend or. Tommy Tittle-ssoaaes tart career was arUf aasaaaced with that of Hagopeaa, for the bitter has Imcii in active service tor vein- nasi in Germany, ami won a selling race over nine inrlongs ai Berlin in MOT, and. for all I know, he may have won other races prior to his achievement of a week ago. Tommy Ttttk asoase was only thirteen when his racing career ended, and Ra.lulphus. another cast-iron oM-tianer, was foiirieen. others that were rnaaUa; for rears can he mentioned in Klneloii. which won a couple of races under lo.kev Club rules al thirteen, before In- linallv broke down, and Lac. mail, which won a rread many races right ap to the end of bis t.mr-teenth rear. [ axeman like Dean Sw ift, was a geld -ing. but in I an SI d lo . lass, the aid "Bean." who i-now nine sears .dd. stands .nit by himself it would be easy to easaaerate other long service Mat racers Bach as Cylinder. Tenntasaster. Hare mid ■OS] tw elve years old i . and so on. I.ul nolle of these which I can recall api.io.iclw.l Ha iopeaiis loag term in training.— Loudon Sportsman.
