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FEATS OF LADAS AS A RACE HORSE. UaahU, the 6mt really great champion of Hie I Braara line, is dead, ami there are main obituary notices of it. bat he ha- never heen given tbe credit of being the great horse in- really waa I write With intimate knowledge as to thi.-. for when I.adas was in training I was a Ireqiieni visitor al Mathew Dawaons, ami again and again wen; ro see the son of Hamilton doing hi.- work, which was mostly along with the plodding Chad. I.adas dashed tats fasae in Ids tir-t race, and the hue Col. W. It. Thompson of tbe Brookdale Stud, I . S. A., was -o impressed hv the coll that he asked me to offer 20,000 guineas for him. which I did, hut. of course, LaahUI was not for sale. Third 10 him iii that Wooden;,- stakes waa Glare, which was herself destined to do wonders for Hie Paraffin line. Math, w Lawaon could get aboal very little in those days, ami he used to drive down from Exiling 111 his brougham to superintend tbe training ol I.adas — "The best-looking horse ] ever saw." as he nice declared to me. On the Middle Part Plate day be was unable to go and see the race, tint sal at home awaiting the news, which was brought him post haste by Felix Leach, whose face must have lieen Indicative of Joy a- lie cantered up. lor Hi good old gentleman at once said: ••Well. Felix, how far did he win hv .- 1 can BBC hv v.mr looks thai he did win." Next year there was a dreadful scare a fortnight before the Two Thousand Guineas on account ol a bursal enlargement which developed on ihe inside of one of Ladas bocks, and Mr. K. H. Leach bad his -kill taxed to the aftermost to gel it reduced Ibis was done so effectually that the colt won the iwo Thousand Guineas, Newmarket stake-, ami Derby without any apparent effort : bnl be was such a high-strung, free goer thai such a sequence of races no doubt took ••virtue" out of him for tbe time being, and l have always fell sun- that tie waa not at bis best when he net Isinglass for the Pnu ess of Wales stakes and Kcllpse Stakes. By Don-raster time, however, he waa all right, and would have won the St. Leger a- easily a- the Two Thou -ami Guineas and Derby, hut poor Tammy Loatea could not bold him. a- wa discovered a: exercise the morning before: that is to say, tbe lackey lost .ill control once in- -it the borne going. Tims after lying off with .1 tighl rem on bis mount up to near the Rifle Putt- he found himself obliged to begin to move up to the leader-, and from that moment Ladas took charge and da-he, 1 to the front. liven so. all would have been we!1 could Loates have goi him in hand at all before the finish, hut he could not. and a- a result, alter lie bad beaten Matchbox, Throstle with a belated effort ju-t an. Iq him. "Ihe Special Commissioner," iu Lou-dun Sport-man.
